{"id":8984,"date":"2025-04-14T15:59:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T20:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=8984"},"modified":"2025-04-14T15:59:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T20:59:33","slug":"the-rocking-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/the-rocking-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rocking Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The porch-boards creaked, under the young rocker\u2019s feet<\/h6>\n
Happily singing her song,<\/h6>\n
Mommy and child, swept away, while the wind gently sang along.<\/h6>\n
Making memories, they were oh, so sweet.<\/h6>\n
But time flew by, and the child grew wild<\/h6>\n
No more rocking or lullabies were heard, no more tender smiles.<\/h6>\n
And there in the garden, sat the old broken rocker to rot.<\/h6>\n
<\/h6>\n
Seasons come and seasons go and so,<\/h6>\n
Vines grew around the rocker\u2019s feet, thorns and thistles intertwined and meet<\/h6>\n
Silenced the song once sung so sweet\u2026<\/h6>\n
No longer needed; this was the ole rocker\u2019s fate.<\/h6>\n
Closed behind the garden gate.<\/h6>\n
There comes an old man bent, bending low and suddenly,<\/h6>\n
Low and behold! He opens the garden gate.<\/h6>\n
Spotting the ole rocker, he gasps with dismay<\/h6>\n
Remembering the songs with his mother she\u2019d say\u2026<\/h6>\n

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Life won\u2019t always be this way!<\/em><\/h6>\n
Darlin boy, you\u2019ll grow up one day\u2026<\/em><\/h6>\n
Remember our songs as you live and pray\u2026<\/em><\/h6>\n
Mommy loves you, sweet boy, rock and play!<\/em><\/h6>\n
\u00a0<\/em><\/h6>\n
Eyes fill with blinding tears; he rushes to the ole rocker\u2026<\/h6>\n
Taking her to his workshop, he repairs, all the broken, tattered tares\u2026<\/h6>\n
Removed the vines that kept her bound. Fresh paint applied, set free, supplied<\/h6>\n
With freedom for the ole rocking chair.<\/h6>\n
<\/h6>\n
Made brand new under the master\u2019s hands\u2026he sits on the porch and sings again\u2026<\/h6>\n
I remember mama\u2026he holds his hands and prays.<\/h6>\n
~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill April 14, 2025<\/h6>\n
2 Corinthians 5:17-18 King James Version\u00a0<\/strong>Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.<\/h6>\n
And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The porch-boards creaked, under the young rocker\u2019s feet Happily singing her song, Mommy and child, swept away, while the wind gently sang along. Making memories, they were oh, so sweet. But time flew by, and the child grew wild No more rocking or lullabies were heard, no more tender smiles. And there in the garden,…<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8984","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-2kU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984","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=8984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8987,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984\/revisions\/8987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}