{"id":3695,"date":"2019-08-13T13:28:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T18:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=3695"},"modified":"2019-08-13T13:28:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T18:28:16","slug":"the-father-asks-where-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/13\/the-father-asks-where-are-you\/","title":{"rendered":"The Father Asks, Where Are You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3697\" src=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Shawna-Erback.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"240\" \/> Artist Shawna Erback<\/h6>\n<h6>I search far and wide waiting for you to come<br \/>\nI catch a glimpse, a quick look but it\u2019s only from<br \/>\nA distance and you\u2019re gone\u2026<br \/>\nDay after day, I go to our secret place<br \/>\nHoping to see your precious face\u2026<br \/>\nBut I wait in vain\u2026<br \/>\nHave you even forgotten my name?<br \/>\nWhere are you? I long for your embrace<br \/>\nTo share your life, your accomplishments, some trace<br \/>\nOf times long gone, I wait, but you aren\u2019t there\u2026<br \/>\nTragedy comes into your life and now you cry for me\u2026<br \/>\nAnd hurriedly I come at your beckoning\u2026<br \/>\nYou offer your regrets for not coming sooner,<br \/>\nYou\u2019re sorry for neglecting our relationship<br \/>\nWaiting in the place where we met\u2026<br \/>\nAnd yet\u2026I accept your lament\u2026<br \/>\nJust to be with you, I\u2019m content\u2026<br \/>\nRepentant heart and loving child\u2026we\u2019ve walked many miles<br \/>\nThrough heartache and disappointments\u2026brokenness and unforgiveness<br \/>\nI see you now, as you wait for me\u2026where once it was I, who waited for thee\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Oh, Papa my soul is free, as I sit here upon this battered tree<br \/>\nWaiting expectantly, just to be with thee\u2026<br \/>\nNo longer running to and fro, chasing dreams where there\u2019s only woe\u2026<br \/>\nEnemy forces, my darkest foe\u2026<br \/>\nJesus, I\u2019ll follow you wherever you go.<br \/>\nFor I have learned that in the secret place, I can speak with you face to face\u2026<br \/>\nStill and calm in this sacred sanctuary I have found rest for my soul\u2026<br \/>\nAnd so, I wait for thee!<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">Written by~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill, August 13, 2019<\/h6>\n<h6><em>GOD called to the Man: \u201cWhere are you?\u201d <strong>Genesis 3:9 The Message (MSG)<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><em>The Message (MSG) <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Copyright \u00a9 1993, 2002, 2018 by Eugene H. 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