{"id":3511,"date":"2019-06-11T13:32:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T18:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=3511"},"modified":"2019-06-12T08:17:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T13:17:30","slug":"embrace-the-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/11\/embrace-the-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Embrace the Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3512\" src=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/encounterchapel-1-300x125.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/encounterchapel-1-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/encounterchapel-1-768x321.jpg 768w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/encounterchapel-1-700x292.jpg 700w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/encounterchapel-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/b><\/h6>\n<h6><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Whether life or death or things seen, or, not seen,<\/h6>\n<h6>In sicknesses, or great sorrow,<\/h6>\n<h6>Things will be different tomorrow<\/h6>\n<h6>In peace or war, God will restore&#8230;<\/h6>\n<h6>Embrace the moment\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>Whether old or young or in between<\/h6>\n<h6>Age is, moment by moment, lived with dreams<\/h6>\n<h6>Embrace it\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>One thing is for certain\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>When He draws the final curtain\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>There will be no do-overs,<\/h6>\n<h6>All of the would-a, should-a, could-a\u2019s will be gone\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Don\u2019t look for the what if\u2019s, or the when\u2019s,<\/h6>\n<h6>Embrace the here and now, begin\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Take hold of the life you\u2019ve been given\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>And embrace it while you can\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>Hold onto love with all your might\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Live what you know, and do what is right\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Fully, completely, with passion and delight,<\/h6>\n<h6>So, when the soul takes flight\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>You\u2019ve run the face and finished the fight\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Entering heaven in robes of white\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>God\u2019s chosen child, you made God smile\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Love, sustained you, in every mile\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Embraced by the light!!!<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill June 11, 2019<\/h6>\n<h6><strong><em>Romans 8:37-39 New King James Version (NKJV)<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><em>Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><em>John 15:9-17<\/em><em> The Passion Translation (TPT)<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><em>\u201cI love each of you with the same love that the Father loves me. You must continually let my love nourish your hearts.<\/em> <em>If you keep my commands, you will live in my love, just as I have kept my Father\u2019s commands, for I continually live nourished and empowered by his love.<\/em> <em>My purpose for telling you these things is so that the joy that I experience will fill your hearts with overflowing gladness!<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><em>\u201cSo this is my command: Love each other deeply, as much as I have loved you.<\/em> <em>For the greatest love of all is a love that sacrifices all. And this great love is demonstrated when a person sacrifices his life<\/em> <em>for his friends.<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><em>\u201cYou show that you are my intimate friends when you obey<\/em> <em>all<\/em> <em>that I command you.<\/em> <em>I have never called you \u2018servants,\u2019<\/em> <em>because a master doesn\u2019t confide in his servants, and servants don\u2019t always understand what the master is doing. But I call you my most intimate friends,<\/em><em><sup data-link=\"[&lt;a href=&quot;#fen-TPT-6782f&quot; title=&quot;See footnote f&quot;&gt;f&lt;\/a&gt;]\" data-fn=\"#fen-TPT-6782f\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=john+15%3A9-17&amp;version=TPT#fen-TPT-6782f\">f<\/a>]<\/sup> <\/em><em>for I reveal to you everything that I\u2019ve heard from my Father.<\/em> <em>You didn\u2019t choose me, but I\u2019ve chosen<\/em> <em>and commissioned you to go into the world<\/em> <em>to bear fruit. And your fruit will last, because whatever you ask of my Father, for my sake,<\/em> <em>he will give it to you!<\/em> <em>So this is my parting command: Love one another deeply!\u201d<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Whether life or death or things seen, or, not seen, In sicknesses, or great sorrow, Things will be different tomorrow In peace or war, God will restore&#8230; Embrace the moment\u2026 Whether old or young or in between Age is, moment by moment, lived with dreams Embrace it\u2026 One thing is for certain\u2026 When He draws&#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-3511","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-UD","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511","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=3511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3514,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions\/3514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}