{"id":7254,"date":"2023-03-07T16:16:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T21:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=7254"},"modified":"2023-03-07T16:16:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T21:16:09","slug":"the-story-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/07\/the-story-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7255\" src=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Forming-Adam-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Forming-Adam-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Forming-Adam.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/> Artwork by: Manasseh Johnson<\/h6>\n<h6><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6>Once upon a time\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>The story\u2019s been told from ancient times, it never gets boring and never gets old\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Maybe you\u2019ve heard it but didn\u2019t understand, it\u2019s pretty simple, let me begin\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Before existence there was a void, a place we\u2019ve never seen\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Spirit came blowing the wind. He spoke and everything changed, new beginning, new dream\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Over the face of many waters in darkness it is told, Spirit formed the land he looked and behold!<\/h6>\n<h6>Hurling stars into place, sky, land and sea, earth and space\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Trees and mountains and birds and creatures in the deep\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>The artist was working all these things he\u2019d keep, and it was good!<\/h6>\n<h6>This story is more exotic, more thrilling than I can tell,<\/h6>\n<h6>There was the first of mornings light and then night fell\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Toiling the soil\u2026with his hands in the mud\u2026yielding the fruit was a fresh new bud\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>There in the dirt a child of God was born\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Breath brought forth a living, breathing soul\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>The story is told\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Life had begun! God had made a son\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill March 7, 2023<\/h6>\n<h6><strong><em><sup>4\u00a0<\/sup><\/em><\/strong><em>This\u00a0is\u00a0the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the\u00a0Lord\u00a0God made the earth and the heavens,\u00a0<strong><sup>5\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>before any\u00a0plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the\u00a0Lord\u00a0God had not\u00a0caused it to rain on the earth, and\u00a0there was\u00a0no man\u00a0to till the ground;\u00a0<strong><sup>6\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><strong><em><sup>7\u00a0<\/sup><\/em><\/strong><em>And the\u00a0Lord\u00a0God formed man\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0dust of the <span style=\"font-size: 21.26px;\">ground and<\/span>\u00a0breathed into his\u00a0nostrils the breath of life; and\u00a0man became a living being. <strong>Genesis 2:4-7 New King James Version<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artwork by: Manasseh Johnson \u00a0 Once upon a time\u2026 The story\u2019s been told from ancient times, it never gets boring and never gets old\u2026 Maybe you\u2019ve heard it but didn\u2019t understand, it\u2019s pretty simple, let me begin\u2026 Before existence there was a void, a place we\u2019ve never seen\u2026 Spirit came blowing the wind. 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