{"id":3133,"date":"2018-11-27T11:56:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T16:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=3133"},"modified":"2018-11-27T15:26:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T20:26:13","slug":"the-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/27\/the-struggle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/h6>\n
Muted by the stings of life<\/h6>\n
The soul is torn by hurt and strife<\/h6>\n
Countless days and countless nights<\/h6>\n
Anger,\u00a0mocking him, while he fights\u2026<\/h6>\n
Perpetual feelings of taking flight<\/h6>\n
Courage to stay, takes all his might\u2026<\/h6>\n

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<\/h6>\n
Year after year his burden grew<\/h6>\n
Smiles on the outside, when no one knew\u2026<\/h6>\n
What his battered soul was going through\u2026<\/h6>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/h6>\n
Would this ever change?<\/h6>\n
Could he hope to live again?<\/h6>\n
Who would come and rescue him?<\/h6>\n
Hanging from this brittle limb?<\/h6>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/h6>\n
Head bowed in discouragement<\/h6>\n
Loss, despair and bereavement<\/h6>\n
Nothing left or so it seemed<\/h6>\n
He heard the words,<\/h6>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve been redeemed\u2026\u201d<\/h6>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/h6>\n
Light shown from everywhere<\/h6>\n
God has answered his\u00a0unceasing prayer…<\/h6>\n
Heart pounding, head swimming,<\/h6>\n
Sweaty palms raised in the air\u2026<\/h6>\n
Laughter, singing, joy is bringing<\/h6>\n
New life to the heart of him\u2026<\/h6>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/h6>\n
Renewed by faith\u2026and full of grace\u2026<\/h6>\n
Standing in this broken place\u2026<\/h6>\n
Life begins again\u2026<\/h6>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/h6>\n
Unseen hands and unseen words<\/h6>\n
Brought by the wind of a gentle bird<\/h6>\n
Life still hard but anger dissolved<\/h6>\n
Jesus takes over, the burden\u2019s resolved\u2026<\/h6>\n
All for the glory of God!<\/h6>\n

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<\/h6>\n
With each new step, in each new day<\/h6>\n
Struggle builds strength, along the way\u2026<\/h6>\n
And on this journey he hears God say\u2026<\/h6>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/h6>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve been redeemed\u2026\u201d<\/h6>\n
~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill November 27, 2018<\/h6>\n
Ephesians 4:31-32<\/em> New Living Translation (NLT) <\/em><\/strong>Get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger, harsh words, and slander, as well as all types of evil behavior.<\/em> 32\u00a0<\/sup>Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you.<\/em><\/h6>\n
Galatians 1:4 New International Version (NIV) <\/em><\/strong>who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,<\/em><\/h6>\n
Isaiah 44:22<\/em> New International Version (NIV) <\/em><\/strong>I have swept away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist. Return to me, <\/strong><\/em>for I have redeemed you<\/u><\/em><\/strong>.\u201d<\/em><\/h6>\n
2 Corinthians 5:7<\/em> New King James Version (NKJV) <\/em><\/strong>For we walk by faith, not by sight.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Muted by the stings of life The soul is torn by hurt and strife Countless days and countless nights Anger,\u00a0mocking him, while he fights\u2026 Perpetual feelings of taking flight Courage to stay, takes all his might\u2026   Year after year his burden grew Smiles on the outside, when no one knew\u2026 What his battered soul…<\/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-3133","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-Ox","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133","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=3133"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3144,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133\/revisions\/3144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}