{"id":3498,"date":"2019-06-05T15:28:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T20:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=3498"},"modified":"2023-06-05T14:10:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T19:10:28","slug":"first-love-and-the-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/05\/first-love-and-the-call\/","title":{"rendered":"First Love and The Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\" Painting by Viktorija Lapteva<\/b><\/h6>\n
Call to me, says the Lord, and I will show you great things<\/h6>\n
Things you can\u2019t imagine<\/h6>\n
Things hidden from the ordinary,<\/h6>\n
Things opened only to the heart of those who call to me<\/h6>\n
Call to me with all your heart<\/h6>\n
And I will answer!!<\/h6>\n
Don\u2019t draw back, don\u2019t be shy, open your mouth and call<\/h6>\n
Adonai! Adonai! Adonai!<\/h6>\n
I see you from afar<\/h6>\n
I hope beyond hope that you will call\u2026<\/h6>\n
I am here\u2026I\u2019m right here\u2026<\/h6>\n
Call and I will answer!!!<\/h6>\n
I\u2019ll show you who I am and all that you are\u2026<\/h6>\n
I will not hide my face from you<\/h6>\n
My love for you runs deep<\/h6>\n
O my dear one\u2026<\/h6>\n
Have you ever tasted the innocence and quickening of that first love?<\/h6>\n
Palms sweaty, heart pounding, pure joy surges through your being<\/h6>\n
Their laugh, their essence, holding hands, small talk\u2026<\/h6>\n
Eyes bright with expectation; bashful, getting to know one another\u2026<\/h6>\n
Longing for them when apart\u2026<\/h6>\n
A longing so intense you can\u2019t sleep, can\u2019t eat, you long to hear their voice\u2026<\/h6>\n
Will they call? Where are they? Are they safe? Are they happy?<\/h6>\n
You hope they will call\u2026<\/h6>\n
I feel that way about you\u2026<\/h6>\n
Call to me and I will answer,<\/h6>\n
Without hesitation, without restraint\u2026<\/h6>\n
First love is exciting with mysteries to behold\u2026<\/h6>\n
Anticipating one tiny look, a knowing that they\u2019re the one\u2026<\/h6>\n
I am so in love with you\u2026<\/h6>\n
Call to me!<\/h6>\n
We have all of eternity to spend together\u2026<\/h6>\n
My precious dove\u2026my true love\u2026<\/h6>\n
Call to me!<\/h6>\n
~Love, Adonai<\/h6>\n
The Answer<\/strong><\/h6>\n
Adonai! Adonai! Adonai!<\/h6>\n
I\u2019ve been distracted by many things<\/h6>\n
Life gets difficult when you forget to bring<\/h6>\n
All your cares and give them to the caregiver of your soul\u2026<\/h6>\n
Behold!<\/h6>\n
I call out to thee\u2026<\/h6>\n
Set my spirit free\u2026<\/h6>\n
Take all of me and let me see<\/h6>\n
Your mysteries\u2026unfold\u2026<\/h6>\n
I am lowly and meek\u2026<\/h6>\n
Sometimes proud and sometimes weak\u2026<\/h6>\n
I don\u2019t deserve your love to seek\u2026<\/h6>\n
But you have called to me, and I believe\u2026<\/h6>\n
I will return to my first love, and no longer grieve<\/h6>\n
For joy has lifted me<\/h6>\n
I hear your voice on the wind<\/h6>\n
I will begin again\u2026<\/h6>\n
I call to thee\u2026<\/h6>\n
Adonai, in all I do, I will love you!<\/h6>\n
~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill, June 5, 2019<\/h6>\n
Jeremiah 33:3 The Message (MSG)\u00a0<\/strong>2-3\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>\u201cThis is God\u2019s Message, the God who made earth, made it livable and lasting, known everywhere as God: \u2018Call to me and I will answer you. I\u2019ll tell you marvelous and wondrous things that you could never figure out on your own.\u2019<\/em><\/h6>\n
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Painting by Viktorija Lapteva Call to me, says the Lord, and I will show you great things Things you can\u2019t imagine Things hidden from the ordinary, Things opened only to the heart of those who call to me Call to me with all your heart And I will answer!! Don\u2019t draw back, don\u2019t be shy,…<\/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-3498","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-Uq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498","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=3498"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7409,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions\/7409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}