{"id":3834,"date":"2019-10-16T13:57:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T18:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=3834"},"modified":"2019-10-16T14:11:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T19:11:08","slug":"the-good-shepherdess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/16\/the-good-shepherdess\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good Shepherdess"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3835\" src=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/the-shepherdess-171x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"300\" \/> Painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau completed in 1889<\/b><\/h6>\n<h6>She walked among a rocky path, wandering and alone<\/h6>\n<h6>No place among the community to call home\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Tattered clothes and worn out shoes<\/h6>\n<h6>Abandoned and abused\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>This girl of twenty-two<\/h6>\n<h6>Then she heard the good news\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>A woman, called, the Good Shepherdess<\/h6>\n<h6>Came to her and dressed her wounds\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Taking her into her flock of more than the girl could count\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>99 she mused\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>She was called to be a Good Shepherdess, by the Good Shepherd, who showed her the truth\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>For she too, had once been lost and abused\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>The Good Shepherdess lead her to a place of peace and rest\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Where she was fed and her soul restored\u2026now fully blessed\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Once shadows of death hovered over her head\u2026now no evil can come nigh her bed\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>A rod and staff they comfort, giving strength wherever she is led\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>The Good Shepherdess said, \u201cI am only a person just like you, but I learned a lesson and this is true, only the Good Shepherd can truly save you. For he saved me and he gave me a new name, to follow\u2026Him!\u201d<\/h6>\n<h6>And he said, \u201cGoodness and Mercy will be your guide will you always stay close to His pierced, loving, side, to live in His presence and there abide? Will you follow the Good Shepherd and listen to his voice, be wise, child, will you make the right choice?&#8221;<\/h6>\n<h6>Yes, Good Shepherdess, always and forever!<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill Oct. 16, 2019<\/h6>\n<h6><em>Psalm 23, The Lord is my Shepherd I shall not want&#8230;<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau completed in 1889 She walked among a rocky path, wandering and alone No place among the community to call home\u2026 Tattered clothes and worn out shoes Abandoned and abused\u2026 This girl of twenty-two Then she heard the good news\u2026 A woman, called, the Good Shepherdess Came to her and dressed her&#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-3834","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-ZQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834","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=3834"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3839,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834\/revisions\/3839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}