{"id":2562,"date":"2018-06-07T11:40:15","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T16:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=2562"},"modified":"2018-06-07T12:32:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T17:32:16","slug":"in-life-there-is-a-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/07\/in-life-there-is-a-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"In Life There Is A Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2568\" src=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/015173fadfe850c47b3cef1eec93959e-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/015173fadfe850c47b3cef1eec93959e-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/015173fadfe850c47b3cef1eec93959e-700x560.jpg 700w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/015173fadfe850c47b3cef1eec93959e.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/h6>\n<h6>In life there is a garden<\/h6>\n<h6>Where lovely flowers grow<\/h6>\n<h6>Watered by the gardener with<\/h6>\n<h6>Love he plows and sows<\/h6>\n<h6>He tends to them completely<\/h6>\n<h6>Watches the beauty they bestow<\/h6>\n<h6>To all earth\u2019s creation in his garden here below<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>Now you may be a periwinkle or a dandy-lion fair<\/h6>\n<h6>But the stem with thorn and rose is where the most fragrant flower grows<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>The sunflower in all her splendor, richness and her grace<\/h6>\n<h6>Will always follow after the sun from sunrise to sunset never leaving her place<\/h6>\n<h6>And humming birds delight themselves in a sip of hibiscus\u2019 sweet taste<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>But we are not flowers in a garden<\/h6>\n<h6>Yet in a garden life began<\/h6>\n<h6>Favored by the creator in the test of time we stood<\/h6>\n<h6>Man and woman he formed us of dust and water and blood<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>We are watered by his goodness and share his likeness too<\/h6>\n<h6>So lift up your heads and sing his praise let life begin anew<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>Yes flowers in this garden of life to which we stand<\/h6>\n<h6>Created by the master at his loving, mighty hand<\/h6>\n<h6>Often crushed and beaten but never defeated is the plan<\/h6>\n<h6>We are just a lonely flower time is short for us you see<\/h6>\n<h6>So let the savor of your life stand for something he commands<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>Trust in the wisdom of the Gardner<\/h6>\n<h6>A sweet fragrance for his delight<\/h6>\n<h6>Knowing a lilac is his handiwork<\/h6>\n<h6>But you are his greatest plan<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">~Marla Y. Shaw (Marla Shaw O&#8217;Neill)<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">12\/3\/2012\u00a9<\/h6>\n<h6><sup><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/sup><em>Now the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord<\/span> God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.<strong> Genesis 2:8<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In life there is a garden Where lovely flowers grow Watered by the gardener with Love he plows and sows He tends to them completely Watches the beauty they bestow To all earth\u2019s creation in his garden here below Now you may be a periwinkle or a dandy-lion fair But the stem with thorn and&#8230;<\/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-2562","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-Fk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562","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=2562"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2571,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions\/2571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}