{"id":8420,"date":"2024-08-27T12:23:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T17:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=8420"},"modified":"2024-08-27T12:23:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T17:23:46","slug":"the-gift-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/27\/the-gift-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rocked to sleep in mommy\u2019s arms, safe and loved and secure.<\/h6>\n
Swings and slides and see-saws, chasing butterflies under blue skies.<\/h6>\n
Reading, writing and arithmetic, now tablets, and high tech\u2026<\/h6>\n
Growing pains doesn\u2019t explain the things we thought about our lives.<\/h6>\n
Working, year after year, planning and dreaming dreams\u2026<\/h6>\n
Parenthood\u2026<\/h6>\n
Misunderstood\u2026<\/h6>\n
Everything changes, some for bad and some for good!<\/h6>\n
Retirement comes, where has life gone? We\u2019re left to wonder in old age\u2026<\/h6>\n
Still young at heart, lives will part, as we sit in line for that time\u2026<\/h6>\n
We too will depart\u2026<\/h6>\n
Life is a continuous cycle\u2026<\/h6>\n
So, live it while you can\u2026<\/h6>\n
We won\u2019t always understand\u2026<\/h6>\n
That\u2019s OK, we don\u2019t have too.<\/h6>\n
Struggling to walk, to think and talk, age takes a toll\u2026<\/h6>\n
I hear God say, my grace is sufficient for you, when you can\u2019t walk, roll\u2026<\/h6>\n
This gift of life that you\u2019ve been given, is often taken for granted, but remember this\u2026<\/h6>\n
There is contentedness\u2026when you take One day at a time!<\/h6>\n
Child, you are mine\u2026<\/h6>\n
Eternity will be divine!<\/h6>\n
~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill August 27, 2024<\/h6>\n
2 Corinthians 12:9-10 The Message<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n
7-10\u00a0<\/sup><\/em><\/strong>Because of the extravagance of those revelations, and so I wouldn\u2019t get a big head, I was given the gift of a handicap to keep me in constant touch with my limitations. Satan\u2019s angel did his best to get me down; what he in fact did was push me to my knees. No danger then of walking around high and mighty! At first, I didn\u2019t think of it as a gift, and begged God to remove it. Three times I did that, and then he told me,<\/em><\/h6>\n
My grace is enough; it\u2019s all you need.
\nMy strength comes into its own in your weakness.<\/em><\/h6>\n
Once I heard that, I was glad to let it happen. I quit focusing on the handicap and began appreciating the gift. It was a case of Christ\u2019s strength moving in on my weakness. Now I take limitations in stride, and with good cheer, these limitations that cut me down to size\u2014abuse, accidents, opposition, bad breaks. I just let Christ take over! And so, the weaker I get, the stronger I become.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rocked to sleep in mommy\u2019s arms, safe and loved and secure. Swings and slides and see-saws, chasing butterflies under blue skies. Reading, writing and arithmetic, now tablets, and high tech\u2026 Growing pains doesn\u2019t explain the things we thought about our lives. Working, year after year, planning and dreaming dreams\u2026 Parenthood\u2026 Misunderstood\u2026 Everything changes, some for…<\/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-8420","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-2bO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8420","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=8420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8423,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8420\/revisions\/8423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}