{"id":9092,"date":"2025-05-21T13:58:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T18:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=9092"},"modified":"2025-05-21T13:58:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T18:58:31","slug":"to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"To Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9093\" src=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ofraredchuppah-mixed-media-on-canvas-14x11-36hqz4qlmy1tyn3xf7dwqkrfejat3jnuesgwtfd322kla9v8i-300x129.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ofraredchuppah-mixed-media-on-canvas-14x11-36hqz4qlmy1tyn3xf7dwqkrfejat3jnuesgwtfd322kla9v8i-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ofraredchuppah-mixed-media-on-canvas-14x11-36hqz4qlmy1tyn3xf7dwqkrfejat3jnuesgwtfd322kla9v8i-700x301.jpg 700w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ofraredchuppah-mixed-media-on-canvas-14x11-36hqz4qlmy1tyn3xf7dwqkrfejat3jnuesgwtfd322kla9v8i.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/h6>\n<h6>Under the canopy He stands and waits<\/h6>\n<h6>The Lord, great and mighty\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Anticipating her arrival\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>Five maidens come singing and dancing,<\/h6>\n<h6>Preparing the way, as the crowd watches in awe.<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>Banners raised! Shouts of praise!<\/h6>\n<h6>They watch, the <em>bride<\/em> approach, in all her glory and splendor\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>Tiny pearls of opal, glisten, upon her gown, pure and white<\/h6>\n<h6>Her skin perfumed in pomegranate and frankincense,<\/h6>\n<h6>Lilies of the Valley crown her head and vail\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>With humility and great joy, she approaches\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Finally, the day is here!<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>She stands before her beloved, two hearts, become one\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Overcome with the song of the turtle dove,<\/h6>\n<h6><em>&#8220;Our wait is over!&#8221;<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><em>All that love him, witness the promise of God!<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6>Mazel tov!<\/h6>\n<h6>To Life!<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill May 21, 2025<\/h6>\n<h6><em>\u201cLet us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to Him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and His wife hath made herself\u00a0ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints\u201d <strong>(Rev. 19:7,8).<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><strong>Pomegranates<\/strong> represent abundance, fertility, hope, and resurrection, making them symbols of new beginnings and spiritual growth.<\/h6>\n<h6><strong>Frankincense<\/strong> oil is used in meditation, prayer, and other spiritual practices to promote calmness, clarity, and connection with the divine.<\/h6>\n<h6><strong>Using both pomegranates and frankincense<\/strong> oil in rituals or practices can symbolize the shedding of old patterns and the embracing of new beginnings.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the canopy He stands and waits The Lord, great and mighty\u2026 Anticipating her arrival\u2026 Five maidens come singing and dancing, Preparing the way, as the crowd watches in awe. &nbsp; Banners raised! Shouts of praise! They watch, the bride approach, in all her glory and splendor\u2026 Tiny pearls of opal, glisten, upon her gown,&#8230;<\/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-9092","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-2mE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9092","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=9092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9094,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9092\/revisions\/9094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}