{"id":9354,"date":"2025-07-31T15:44:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T20:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=9354"},"modified":"2025-08-04T10:42:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T15:42:46","slug":"where-are-you-headed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/31\/where-are-you-headed\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Are You Headed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9355\" src=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/boxcar-man-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/boxcar-man-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/boxcar-man-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/boxcar-man.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>Hopped a train, headed for Ten-Buck-Two<\/h6>\n<h6>Dreams shattered beyond the blue\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Only me, and a stranger, sat in that ole boxcar.<\/h6>\n<h6>The old man said, \u201cMy name is Isaak.\u201d<\/h6>\n<h6>I lifted my head\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>He asked, \u201cWhere you from, son?\u201d<\/h6>\n<h6>\u201cFrom riches to vagabond, that\u2019s where I\u2019m from\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>I\u2019m headed to Ten-Buck-Two.<\/h6>\n<h6>How \u2018bout you?\u201d<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>Isaak, took a slow breath and bowed his head<\/h6>\n<h6>Then said, \u201cI&#8217;m on my way to somewhere, I\u2019ve already seen<\/h6>\n<h6>Ten-Buck-Two and everywhere.<\/h6>\n<h6>There\u2019s only one thing I\u2019ve got left to do,<\/h6>\n<h6>That\u2019s to ride this old train, alone with you.\u201d<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>Chills ran up and down my spine<\/h6>\n<h6>I looked at Isaak, he looked at me, I\u2019d never seen eyes like his before.<\/h6>\n<h6>I figured, this must be the end of the line<\/h6>\n<h6>But then he smiled and spoke words I\u2019d only ever heard<\/h6>\n<h6>In an Old-Black-Book filled with, they say, God\u2019s word!<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>Listen son, \u201cThere\u2019s a way that seems right to a man<\/h6>\n<h6>But the end there-of is the way of death, you\u2019ve been running far too long\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Come on home and I don\u2019t mean die, not just yet.<\/h6>\n<h6>Life comes from the living one, you know who I mean, and that\u2019s God\u2019s only son<\/h6>\n<h6>Now, if you let him change the ways you think, takes less that an eye-blink, and<\/h6>\n<h6>Frankly your way of thinking stinks.\u201d<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>I ran my fingers through my hair, giving him a cold dark stair<\/h6>\n<h6>Then my body began to shake and quake<\/h6>\n<h6>Was I dreaming, or was I awake?<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>The voice I\u2019d always listened too, was spinning words<\/h6>\n<h6>Inside my head telling me, \u201cYou\u2019re crazy if you believe what he said\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Tell him to back off and leave you be.\u201d<\/h6>\n<h6>But something deeper inside of me gave me peace<\/h6>\n<h6>I\u2019d never felt before<\/h6>\n<h6>I couldn\u2019t breathe\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>Tears streamed down my troubled face and right then and there, God\u2019s amazing Grace<\/h6>\n<h6>Flooded my heart and I screamed, \u201cI do!<\/h6>\n<h6>Jesus come into my heart, like Isaak said, make me brand new<\/h6>\n<h6>I don\u2019t want to go to Ten-Buck-Two!\u201d<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>I shouted, \u201cHallelujah!\u201d<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>As I bowed my head in surrender to the Living Son of God<\/h6>\n<h6>I looked around, Isaak was nowhere to be found!<\/h6>\n<h6>This was an encounter of a supernatural kind\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Turns out this ole boxcar was, the end of the line\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>\u201cIsaak, wherever you are\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Thanks for being on this ole boxcar<\/h6>\n<h6>I\u2019m headed for somewhere and someday, I know,<\/h6>\n<h6>I\u2019ll be exactly where you are!<\/h6>\n<h6>In that forever place called, Home!<\/h6>\n<h6>It really isn\u2019t that far!\u201d<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill July 31, 2025<\/h6>\n<h6><strong><em>John 14:1-3 King James Version &#8211; <\/em><\/strong><em>Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><strong><em><sup>2\u00a0<\/sup><\/em><\/strong><em>In my Father&#8217;s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. <strong>I go to prepare a place for you.<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><strong><em><sup>3\u00a0<\/sup><\/em><\/strong><em>And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; <strong>that where I am, there ye may be also.<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopped a train, headed for Ten-Buck-Two Dreams shattered beyond the blue\u2026 Only me, and a stranger, sat in that ole boxcar. The old man said, \u201cMy name is Isaak.\u201d I lifted my head\u2026 He asked, \u201cWhere you from, son?\u201d \u201cFrom riches to vagabond, that\u2019s where I\u2019m from\u2026 I\u2019m headed to Ten-Buck-Two. How \u2018bout you?\u201d Isaak,&#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-9354","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-2qS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9354","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=9354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9367,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9354\/revisions\/9367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}