{"id":2295,"date":"2018-04-02T08:23:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T13:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=2295"},"modified":"2018-04-02T08:25:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T13:25:24","slug":"thank-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/02\/thank-goodness\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank Goodness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2297\" src=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/21105608_1673762062637086_6791619233255711490_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/21105608_1673762062637086_6791619233255711490_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/21105608_1673762062637086_6791619233255711490_n-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/21105608_1673762062637086_6791619233255711490_n-700x524.jpg 700w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/21105608_1673762062637086_6791619233255711490_n-800x599.jpg 800w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/21105608_1673762062637086_6791619233255711490_n-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/21105608_1673762062637086_6791619233255711490_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>Could you imagine if cows made buttermilk?<\/h6>\n<h6>And bunny\u2019s laid Easter eggs, of milk chocolate and caramel silk?<\/h6>\n<h6>What if turtles could fly and horses could talk<\/h6>\n<h6>They\u2019d probably say, sir you can walk\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>What if elephants danced and sloths pranced\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Have you ever thought about that circumstance?<\/h6>\n<h6>Being under it\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>What if rain didn\u2019t fall?<\/h6>\n<h6>What if trees weren\u2019t tall?<\/h6>\n<h6>What would we call everything then?<\/h6>\n<h6>Why, just, think about this<\/h6>\n<h6>When you reminisce<\/h6>\n<h6>If God had not created our world<\/h6>\n<h6>All His beauty, and wonder, we\u2019d have missed\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>God, we\u2019re in your hands, thank goodness!<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill April 2, 2018<\/h6>\n<h6><strong>This poem was\u00a0inspired by a phone conversation I had with my 90-year-old dad this morning. He said when he was four years old he asked his grandmother which of their cows made buttermilk. She answered in her southern drawl, \u201cLawd, cows don\u2019t make buttermilk!<\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><strong><em>Genesis 1:31 The Message (MSG) <\/em><\/strong><em>God looked over everything he had made;\u00a0it was so good, so very good!\u00a0<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could you imagine if cows made buttermilk? And bunny\u2019s laid Easter eggs, of milk chocolate and caramel silk? What if turtles could fly and horses could talk They\u2019d probably say, sir you can walk\u2026 What if elephants danced and sloths pranced\u2026 Have you ever thought about that circumstance? 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