{"id":3174,"date":"2018-12-18T12:40:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T17:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=3174"},"modified":"2018-12-18T12:40:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T17:40:27","slug":"the-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/18\/the-circle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3175\" src=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/il_340x270_1651063606_rr2u-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/il_340x270_1651063606_rr2u-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/il_340x270_1651063606_rr2u.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>The season has come and we\u2019re told to rejoice\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve come to realize this is a day to day choice\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Times long gone with many I hold dear to my heart<\/p>\n<p>Memories like shifting shadows mingle in the dark\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Once the child, with hopeful yearnings of dreams and things\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Eyes bright and expectant awaiting Christmas morn\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Now the child has long since grown with gray hair adorning<\/p>\n<p>Traces of years upon the face\u2026leaving memories, just a trace<\/p>\n<p>Of days evaporated into time and space\u2026now taking my rightful place<\/p>\n<p>Step by step; making haste\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Trying so hard not to waste<\/p>\n<p>The time we have together\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Life is a circle\u2026<\/p>\n<p>It never ends\u2026when one leaves, another begins\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Look in the mirror my friend\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Life is passing by like a steady wind<\/p>\n<p>New faces come into play\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Old faces gone away\u2026<\/p>\n<p>But Love never ends\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill December 17, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Psalm 103:15-18 New International Version (NIV)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The life of mortals is like grass, <\/em><em>they flourish like a flower of the field; <\/em><em>the wind blows over it and it is gone, <\/em><em>and its place remembers it no more. <\/em><em>But from everlasting to everlasting <\/em><em>the Lord\u2019s love is with those who fear him, <\/em><em>and his righteousness with their children\u2019s children\u2014 <\/em><em>with those who keep his covenant <\/em><em>and remember to obey his precepts.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The season has come and we\u2019re told to rejoice\u2026 I\u2019ve come to realize this is a day to day choice\u2026 Times long gone with many I hold dear to my heart Memories like shifting shadows mingle in the dark\u2026 Once the child, with hopeful yearnings of dreams and things\u2026 Eyes bright and expectant awaiting Christmas&#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-3174","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-Pc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174","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=3174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3176,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions\/3176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}