{"id":2445,"date":"2018-05-10T14:47:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T19:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=2445"},"modified":"2018-05-10T14:55:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T19:55:13","slug":"the-gift-of-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/10\/the-gift-of-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gift of Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/h6>\n
I met a new friend today<\/h6>\n
You may find him quiet unorthodox\u2026<\/h6>\n
But when I asked his name\u2026<\/h6>\n
He said,<\/h6>\n
My name is Joy\u2026I am known by you as a Blue Bird.<\/h6>\n
Also as the blue bird of happiness,<\/em> you may have heard\u2026<\/h6>\n
God gave me blue feathers, to shelter me from the rain\u2026<\/h6>\n
He gave me wings and a beak and said I should remain<\/h6>\n
Among the trees and build a nest, for my bride to lay her eggs<\/h6>\n
So our new babies can grow and rest\u2026<\/h6>\n
Some times when I\u2019m really blue I have a song I sing\u2026<\/h6>\n
Listen\u2026<\/h6>\n
Creator of the universe, I lift my head to thee<\/em><\/h6>\n
With gentle breath I sing this tune a gift you gave to me\u2026<\/em><\/h6>\n
You filled my lungs with air\u2026and gave me wings, so I can fly\u2026 <\/em><\/h6>\n
to higher ground to soar way up there\u2026<\/em><\/h6>\n
Rising early in the morning, I find food for my family, <\/em><\/h6>\n
I\u2019m grateful for all you do eternally\u2026<\/em><\/h6>\n
There\u2019s no time to worry or fret, what will happen in this day\u2026<\/em><\/h6>\n
Papa, Creator, I sing and I obey.<\/em><\/h6>\n
You put your music within me; yes I am called to sing\u2026<\/em><\/h6>\n
To the listeners of passersby, it is Joy I\u2019m offering\u2026<\/em><\/h6>\n
Oh, Joy, I cannot tell you how much happiness you\u2019ve given me today<\/h6>\n
I was sad and all alone until your song came my way\u2026<\/h6>\n
And from now on, when I\u2019m feeling really blue<\/h6>\n
I\u2019ll look up in your tree and I\u2019ll be hearing you.<\/h6>\n
Thank you, Papa Creator, for sending Joy my way\u2026<\/h6>\n
I\u2019ve learned a valuable lesson here, from, Joy today.<\/h6>\n
Joy is always around us\u2026even when we\u2019re blue\u2026<\/h6>\n
Joy is a gift from God today, listen, he\u2019s telling you<\/h6>\n
To stop and hear Joy singing, in everything you do.<\/h6>\n
The blue bird of happiness<\/em> is God\u2019s sweet gift to you.<\/h6>\n
~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill May 10, 2018<\/h6>\n
Psalm 95 New International Version (NIV)<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n
Psalm 95 <\/em><\/strong>Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I met a new friend today You may find him quiet unorthodox\u2026 But when I asked his name\u2026 He said, My name is Joy\u2026I am known by you as a Blue Bird. Also as the blue bird of happiness, you may have heard\u2026 God gave me blue feathers, to shelter me from the rain\u2026 He…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8aPxH-Dr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions\/2450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}