{"id":3489,"date":"2019-06-02T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T21:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=3489"},"modified":"2019-06-02T18:01:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T23:01:20","slug":"the-old-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/02\/the-old-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3490\" src=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/old-souls-300x158.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/old-souls-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/old-souls-768x403.png 768w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/old-souls-700x368.png 700w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/old-souls.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/b><\/h6>\n<h6>Looking into the newborn eyes I saw the look of the ancients<\/h6>\n<h6>Patriarchs and matriarchs blood line, divine\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Inquisitive, his stare, fully aware, he was watched and compared\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Not to the beauties, no royalty did he bare\u2026but his eyes told stories<\/h6>\n<h6>For all to beware\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>The ancients using his old soul to share, what most would never dare\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>He\u2019s an old soul and time would tell\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>At the ringing of the resounding bell\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Look to him, he knows all things\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Life is what his blood shed brings<\/h6>\n<h6>The love-birds and the turtle-doves sing<\/h6>\n<h6>An old lullaby, sung for kings\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6><em>Hashem<\/em>, <em>Hashem<\/em>, <em>Hashem<\/em>\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>The old soul surrenders his nobility<\/h6>\n<h6>So that you and I can know subtly<\/h6>\n<h6>There\u2019s more to life than reality\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Look to the one who knows\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Open your heart and follow Him\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Born in tiny Bethlehem<\/h6>\n<h6>There&#8217;s and open door, so go right in\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Goodness and mercy follow Him\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>But evil enters the heart of those blind and deaf to<\/h6>\n<h6>The old soul\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>So, they take him to Golgotha\u2019s Hill\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Their plan, to mock and kill, the old soul born,<\/h6>\n<h6>To do the father\u2019s will\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>The old soul is stripped and hung<\/h6>\n<h6>As old as time, pure and kind<\/h6>\n<h6>I looked into his tortured eyes<\/h6>\n<h6>Then watched as the old soul cried and then died\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Three days later\u2026on a long dusty road&#8230;<\/h6>\n<h6>The old soul, is alive!!!<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill June 2, 2019<\/h6>\n<h6><strong><em>Genesis 2:7 The Message (MSG)<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><em>At the time <\/em><em>God<\/em><em> made Earth and Heaven, before any grasses or shrubs had sprouted from the ground\u2014<\/em><em>God<\/em><em> hadn\u2019t yet sent rain on Earth, nor was there anyone around to work the ground (the whole Earth was watered by underground springs)\u2014<\/em><em>God <\/em><em>formed Man out of dirt from the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life. The Man came alive\u2014a living soul!<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><strong><em>1 Corinthians 15:4 Good News Translation (GNT)<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><em>that he was buried and that he was raised to life three days later, as written in the Scriptures;<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><strong><em>Luke 24:31-33<\/em><em> Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><em>Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized Him, but He disappeared from their sight. So they said to each other, \u201cWeren\u2019t our hearts ablaze within us while He was talking with us on the road and explaining the Scriptures to us?\u201d That very hour they got up and returned to Jerusalem. They found the Eleven and those with them gathered together, <\/em><\/h6>\n<div data-editor=\"4dp5g\" data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"877vm-0-0\">\n<h6 class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"877vm-0-0\"><strong>When my granddaughter, Esperanza was born, 17 years ago, someone, I think it was my mom, made the comment that she was an &#8216;old soul&#8217;&#8230;I had not heard that term before and it stuck in my mind&#8230;the other day I was reading a book and again the words, old soul, came up so I said to myself, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to write about an old soul&#8221; and so I wrote this just now&#8230;but as I wrote it turned out to be about Jesus! \ud83d\ude42\u00a0<\/strong><strong><br data-text=\"true\" \/><\/strong><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<div data-editor=\"4dp5g\" data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"3rp7d-0-0\">\n<h6 class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"3rp7d-0-0\"><strong>and I also found this: Old souls are rare. Comprising about 11% of the population. Some say about 11\u201315% of people are old souls. They generally inherit these genes form their ancestors who have gone through lot of experiences during there lifetime. These people falls under Self-actualization category which constitutes 2% of world population.<\/strong><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking into the newborn eyes I saw the look of the ancients Patriarchs and matriarchs blood line, divine\u2026 Inquisitive, his stare, fully aware, he was watched and compared\u2026 Not to the beauties, no royalty did he bare\u2026but his eyes told stories For all to beware\u2026 The ancients using his old soul to share, what most&#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-3489","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-Uh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489","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=3489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3493,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions\/3493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}