{"id":3047,"date":"2018-10-31T09:11:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T14:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=3047"},"modified":"2018-10-31T09:22:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T14:22:48","slug":"the-little-joys-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/31\/the-little-joys-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Little Joys of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3048\" src=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/psalm-127_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"277\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<h6>Those little moments when Joys become burdens<\/h6>\n<h6>We are focused on what comes next<\/h6>\n<h6>Instead of the here and now<\/h6>\n<h6>Feeling trapped in a sea of littleness<\/h6>\n<h6>Wanting something else, we give up bliss\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Frustrated and impatient, wondering about all this\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Grab hold of the right now\u2026and never let it go<\/h6>\n<h6>For when it\u2019s gone you\u2019ll understand and wish it back even though<\/h6>\n<h6>Those moments have gone, and so\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>The loss you feel will be greater than the letting go\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Take each moment that you live and live it to the full<\/h6>\n<h6>For those Joys will be grown, and one day will leave your home<\/h6>\n<h6>Empty, wishing they had not gone\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Words to the wise\u2026Capture each sigh<\/h6>\n<h6>And turn it into life\u2026embrace the Joys that are at your side\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Little Joys, of moments, spent side by side\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Add up to a lifetime ago\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Grab hold of them and never let them go\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>And when you\u2019re old; and body bent\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>You\u2019ll be thankful for, each little Joy; sent<\/h6>\n<h6>To make your life content!<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill October 31, 2018<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">Dedicated to my children and grandchildren!<\/h6>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3051 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/gal-6-9-web-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/gal-6-9-web-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/gal-6-9-web-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/gal-6-9-web-700x394.jpg 700w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/gal-6-9-web-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/gal-6-9-web.jpg 1067w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those little moments when Joys become burdens We are focused on what comes next Instead of the here and now Feeling trapped in a sea of littleness Wanting something else, we give up bliss\u2026 Frustrated and impatient, wondering about all this\u2026 Grab hold of the right now\u2026and never let it go For when it\u2019s gone&#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-3047","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-N9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047","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=3047"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3054,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions\/3054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}