{"id":4986,"date":"2022-01-05T14:16:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T19:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=4986"},"modified":"2022-01-05T14:16:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T19:16:31","slug":"joy-second-poem-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/05\/joy-second-poem-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy Second poem in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\" Art by Floyd Cooper<\/h6>\n
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Joy is such a tiny word, three letters to express<\/h6>\n
Delight, exuberance, strength and happiness\u2026<\/h6>\n
Like an apple or a strawberry, fruit so sweet and good\u2026<\/h6>\n
Joy, given from heaven, sometimes misunderstood.<\/h6>\n
Joy is more than an emotion, more than feeling glee<\/h6>\n
Why it\u2019s produced by the Spirit, where Jesus sets us free<\/h6>\n
To live totally in grace, with songs of victory!<\/h6>\n
Rejoicing with the angels, even when hard times call<\/h6>\n
Girded with truth and peace and hope, surrounded by these walls<\/h6>\n
Fire cannot penetrate, floods parted in the wake, mountains moved<\/h6>\n
When the earthquakes\u2026Joy will be mine to take<\/h6>\n
Through all of life\u2019s heartaches\u2026<\/h6>\n
Joy, a constant in the battle that conquerors every fear, every doubt, every torment<\/h6>\n
Joy will shout, in silent resilience to the foe that comes to defeat\u2026<\/h6>\n
Joy is concrete, Joy makes us complete\u2026<\/h6>\n
In the Spirit where God meets\u2026<\/h6>\n
Our saddest moments and deepest longings\u2026<\/h6>\n
Joy will be sweet\u2026<\/h6>\n
As morning gives way to joy\u2026we will not weep<\/h6>\n
Nothing will steal our joy; it is ours to keep!<\/h6>\n
~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill January 5, 2022<\/h6>\n
John 15:10-12<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n
Holman Christian Standard Bible <\/em><\/strong>10\u00a0<\/sup><\/em><\/strong>If you keep My commands you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father\u2019s commands and remain in His love.<\/em><\/h6>\n
11\u00a0<\/sup><\/em><\/strong>\u201cI have spoken these things to you so that My joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.\u00a012\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>This is My command: Love one another as I have loved\u00a0you.<\/em><\/h6>\n
Psalm 30:4-6<\/em><\/strong> King James Version 4\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>Sing unto the\u00a0Lord, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. 5\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. 6\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>And in my prosperity,<\/em> I said, I shall never be moved.<\/em><\/h6>\n
Galatians 5:22-23 The Passion Translation <\/em><\/strong>22\u201323\u00a0<\/sup><\/em><\/strong>But the fruit[a<\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a0produced by the Holy Spirit within you is divine love<\/strong>\u00a0in all its varied expressions:[b<\/a>]<\/sup><\/em><\/h6>\n
joy<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0that overflows,[c<\/a>] <\/sup>peace<\/strong>\u00a0that subdues, patience<\/strong>[d<\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a0that endures, kindness<\/strong>[e<\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a0in action, a life full of virtue,[f<\/a>] <\/sup>faith<\/strong>\u00a0that prevails, gentleness<\/strong>\u00a0of heart, and strength<\/strong>\u00a0of spirit.[g<\/a>] <\/sup>Never set the law above these qualities, for they are meant to be limitless.[h<\/a>]<\/sup><\/em><\/h6>\n
Footnotes<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n
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  1. \n
    5:22\u201323<\/a>\u00a0The Greek word here can be translated \u201charvest.\u201d<\/em><\/h6>\n<\/li>\n
  2. \n
    5:22\u201323<\/a>\u00a0There is clear textual inference that the \u201cfruit\u201d (singular) of the Holy Spirit is love, with the other virtues displaying aspects of the greatest quality of Spirit-life,\u00a0agape\u00a0love.<\/em><\/h6>\n<\/li>\n
  3. \n
    5:22\u201323<\/a>\u00a0This translation has chosen to supply action to these virtues, for they are not meant to be abstract virtues, but made visible with actions.<\/em><\/h6>\n<\/li>\n
  4. \n
    5:22\u201323<\/a>\u00a0The Greek word for patience is taken from a verb that means \u201cever tapping\u201d or \u201cnever quitting.\u201d<\/em><\/h6>\n<\/li>\n
  5. \n
    5:22\u201323<\/a>\u00a0The Aramaic word can be translated \u201csweetness.\u201d<\/em><\/h6>\n<\/li>\n
  6. \n
    5:22\u201323<\/a>\u00a0Or \u201cgoodness.\u201d<\/em><\/h6>\n<\/li>\n
  7. \n
    5:22\u201323<\/a>\u00a0The word\u00a0self\u00a0is not found in this verse; however, most translations render this as \u201cself-control.\u201d The word is actually \u201clordship,\u201d or by implication \u201cspirit-strength.\u201d<\/em><\/h6>\n<\/li>\n
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    5:22\u201323<\/a>\u00a0Literally \u201cthere is no law set against these things\u201d or \u201cthere is no conflict with Jewish laws.\u201d<\/em><\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Art by Floyd Cooper Joy is such a tiny word, three letters to express Delight, exuberance, strength and happiness\u2026 Like an apple or a strawberry, fruit so sweet and good\u2026 Joy, given from heaven, sometimes misunderstood. Joy is more than an emotion, more than feeling glee Why it\u2019s produced by the Spirit, where Jesus sets…<\/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-4986","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-1iq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986","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=4986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4988,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986\/revisions\/4988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}