{"id":4096,"date":"2020-03-28T15:53:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T20:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=4096"},"modified":"2020-03-28T15:53:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T20:53:58","slug":"return-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/28\/return-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Return to Me"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nBroken hearted he sits and waits, hoping you will return.
\nWhere are you my love, it\u2019s getting late, he cries with longing for his lost soul-mate.
\nHe listens to the night owl, knowing you are on the prowl. Tears flowing as he wonders why you will not come.
\nTurning out the lights, he groans in the night.
\nWhy do you not listen when I call your name?
\nYou say you love me, but it\u2019s just a game\u2026a deadly game, where in the end, you lose.
\nWhat has caused your heart to become like stone? I hear your sighs, you\u2019re all alone.
\nBut still you refuse to come home.
\nThe worldly life has captured your attention, with ungodly things, I cannot mention. Wake up you\u2019re going the wrong way\u2026
\nOh, hear me, this, I pray\u2026
\nCome back to your first love\u2026
\nOh, please stop running away\u2026
\nThe world has stolen your affection, sin has filled your life with no direction. Living the life on easy street, is not, so easy, and yet, you will not return to me.
\nOpen your eyes and see me, open your ears and hear me,
\nYour love has grown cold. There are chains that hold, you bound, to the invisible foe\u2026there is only one way to freedom, my dove\u2026
\nAnd that\u2019s to return, to your first love!
\nHow can I return, I\u2019ve run to far, I search in the night, for your true North star, hoping it will lead me back to you, maybe tomorrow, but all I find is sorrow, I wish I knew\u2026how to come home!
\nI want to return but my life\u2019s upside down, to many things now have me bound, you could never forgive me for all that I have done\u2026I\u2019ve fallen, and, the enemy has won!
\nLook up and face true North, I am nearer than your heartbeat\u2026
\nHumble yourself and we will meet, beneath the light of the stars, twill be sweet\u2026
\nTurning around I see his smiling face;
\nYou\u2019re the first love I\u2019ve ever known\u2026
\nRunning to his outstretched arms\u2026his love for me runs deep
\nEmbracing him, I cover my face, surrendering to him, I weep\u2026
\nWith tears of rejoicing in him I\u2019m now complete\u2026
\nFirst love renewed, as under the stars, we meet!
\nWe are one, life\u2019s begun\u2026First love, won!<\/h6>\n
\n~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill March 27, 2020<\/h6>\n
Revelation 2:1-7 Good News Translation (GNT)<\/em><\/strong>
\nThe Message to Ephesus<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n
\n2 \u201cTo the angel of the church in Ephesus write:<\/em>
\n\u201cThis is the message from the one who holds the seven stars in his right hand and who walks among the seven gold lampstands. 2 I know what you have done; I know how hard you have worked and how patient you have been. I know that you cannot tolerate evil people and that you have tested those who say they are apostles but are not, and have found out that they are liars. 3 You are patient, you have suffered for my sake, and you have not given up. 4 But this is what I have against you: you do not love me now as you did at first. 5 Think how far you have fallen! Turn from your sins and do what you did at first. If you don’t turn from your sins, I will come to you and take your lampstand from its place. 6 But this is what you have in your favor: you hate what the Nicolaitans do, as much as I do. <\/em>7 \u201cIf you have ears, then, listen to what the Spirit says to the churches! <\/em>\u201cTo those who win the victory I will give the right to eat the fruit of the tree of life that grows in the Garden of God.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Broken hearted he sits and waits, hoping you will return. Where are you my love, it\u2019s getting late, he cries with longing for his lost soul-mate. He listens to the night owl, knowing you are on the prowl. Tears flowing as he wonders why you will not come. Turning out the lights, he groans in…<\/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-4096","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-144","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096","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=4096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4098,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096\/revisions\/4098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}