{"id":4741,"date":"2021-06-15T10:13:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T15:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=4741"},"modified":"2022-08-18T15:15:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T20:15:41","slug":"broken-but-not-forsaken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/15\/broken-but-not-forsaken\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken But Not Forsaken"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Broken, shattered, we move through life in a misty fog<\/h6>\n
Praying, \u201cWhere are you God?\u201d<\/h6>\n
In our minds we feel alone, afraid and disconnected from the human race\u2026<\/h6>\n
He has not left us; his arms are around us, filling us with his love and grace\u2026<\/h6>\n
We can\u2019t feel him, we can\u2019t feel anything only a numbness, like the walking dead<\/h6>\n
We go through the motions of living but we are not alive.<\/h6>\n
Not emotionally, mentally or physically\u2026<\/h6>\n
People looking at us can\u2019t tell<\/h6>\n
We may wear a smile, go to work, do the every day things that look like living<\/h6>\n
But we have shut down on the inside\u2026<\/h6>\n
In the night hours when others are sleeping, we lie awake in the dark weeping\u2026<\/h6>\n
Hear me broken one, you are not alone<\/em><\/h6>\n
I\u2019ve come to comfort you and bring you home.<\/em><\/h6>\n
Lift up your head, you are not dead\u2026yes, pain is real, but I\u2019ve come to heal<\/em><\/h6>\n
Your broken, down-cast spirit.<\/em><\/h6>\n
Open your heart, open your eyes, open your ears<\/em><\/h6>\n
Can\u2019t you hear it\u2026<\/em><\/h6>\n
Sorrow is for the night but joy comes in the morning!<\/em><\/h6>\n
It\u2019s morning Child\u2026put on the garment of Praise for the spirit of heaviness<\/em><\/h6>\n
My love is measureless and I am pouring my Spirit into your life\u2026<\/em><\/h6>\n
Come alive!!<\/em><\/h6>\n
And when you are restored do what I\u2019ve chosen and called you to do!<\/h6>\n
You will be like the balm of Gilead<\/h6>\n
Restoring others to life in me!<\/h6>\n
~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill June 15, 2021<\/h6>\n
ISAIAH 61:1-3<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n
The Spirit\u00a0of the Sovereign\u00a0Lord\u00a0is on me, because the\u00a0Lord\u00a0has anointed\u00a0me to proclaim good news\u00a0to the poor.<\/em><\/h6>\n
He has sent me to bind up\u00a0the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom\u00a0for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the\u00a0Lord’s favor and the day of vengeance\u00a0of our God, to comfort\u00a0all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve in Zion\u2014to bestow on them a crown\u00a0of beauty instead of ashes, the oil\u00a0of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair.<\/em><\/h6>\n
They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting\u00a0of the\u00a0Lord for the display of his splendor.<\/em><\/h6>\n
\u00a0<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Broken, shattered, we move through life in a misty fog Praying, \u201cWhere are you God?\u201d In our minds we feel alone, afraid and disconnected from the human race\u2026 He has not left us; his arms are around us, filling us with his love and grace\u2026 We can\u2019t feel him, we can\u2019t feel anything only a…<\/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-4741","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-1et","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741","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=4741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4744,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741\/revisions\/4744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}