{"id":2985,"date":"2018-10-15T10:33:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T15:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=2985"},"modified":"2018-10-15T10:43:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T15:43:54","slug":"i-love-you-papa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/15\/i-love-you-papa\/","title":{"rendered":"I Love You Papa"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the world where goodness and mercy<\/h6>\n
Are looked at as weakness\u2026<\/h6>\n
And people want the absurd not meekness<\/h6>\n
I run to my papa and climb up in his lap<\/h6>\n
Resting my head there, I try to nap<\/h6>\n
Knowing that His presence will bring me peace and rest<\/h6>\n
Safe from harm He gives me His best\u2026<\/h6>\n
\u201cI love you papa,\u201d<\/em> while we embrace<\/h6>\n
I sense His love, without seeing His face\u2026<\/h6>\n
\u201cI love you too, my precious child<\/em><\/h6>\n
Quiet now just sit a while\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/h6>\n
The world is filled with pride and distress<\/h6>\n
Some don\u2019t recognize their papa will bless<\/h6>\n
He\u2019ll guide and keep them through every test\u2026<\/h6>\n
\u201cPapa is here, drop all the veneer,<\/em><\/h6>\n
I\u2019ll wipe away your sadness and your tears<\/em><\/h6>\n
All your doubts and all your fears\u2026<\/em><\/h6>\n
Come and see that I have always loved thee<\/em><\/h6>\n
My love was nailed to a tattered tree<\/em><\/h6>\n
Come near my child come sit awhile\u2026<\/em><\/h6>\n
Rest from those hurting, dusty miles\u2026<\/em><\/h6>\n
Sick and battered I can hardly speak<\/h6>\n
I raise my head to kiss His cheek\u2026<\/h6>\n
With labored breath His love I seek\u2026<\/h6>\n
Given freely to the one who\u2019s meek\u2026<\/h6>\n
Papa<\/em>?<\/h6>\n
Yes child?<\/em><\/h6>\n
I love you papa<\/em>\u2026then I fall asleep!<\/h6>\n
Heart full of exuberant joy,<\/h6>\n
Papa smiles as He holds His beloved child!<\/h6>\n
~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill October 15, 2018<\/h6>\n
Psalm 127:2 The Message (MSG)<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n
A Pilgrim Song of Solomon <\/em><\/strong>If God doesn\u2019t build the house, the builders only build shacks. If God doesn\u2019t guard the city, the night watchman might as well nap. It\u2019s useless to rise early and go to bed late, and work your worried fingers to the bone. Don\u2019t you know he enjoys giving rest to those he loves?<\/em><\/h6>\n
1 John 3<\/em> Living Bible (TLB) <\/em><\/strong>See how very much our heavenly Father loves us, for he allows us to be called his children\u2014think of it\u2014and we really are! But since most people don\u2019t know God, naturally they don\u2019t understand that we are his children. Yes, dear friends, we are already God\u2019s children, right now, and we can\u2019t even imagine what it is going to be like later on. But we do know this, that when he comes we will be like him, as a result of seeing him as he really is. And everyone who really believes this will try to stay pure because Christ is pure.<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n
John 3:16-17<\/em> New King James Version (NKJV) <\/em><\/strong>For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten<\/em> Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.<\/em> For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.<\/em><\/h6>\n

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In the world where goodness and mercy Are looked at as weakness\u2026 And people want the absurd not meekness I run to my papa and climb up in his lap Resting my head there, I try to nap Knowing that His presence will bring me peace and rest Safe from harm He gives me His…<\/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-2985","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-M9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985","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=2985"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2990,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985\/revisions\/2990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}