{"id":949,"date":"2017-06-01T14:27:07","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T19:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=949"},"modified":"2017-06-02T18:01:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T23:01:05","slug":"live-in-moments-not-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/01\/live-in-moments-not-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Live in Moments Not Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0<\/strong>There will come a day\u2026<\/h6>\n
When I will have to say\u2026<\/h6>\n
\u201cGood-bye.\u201d<\/h6>\n
Until that day, I will live trusting, and loving, and giving, and sharing, the love of my God to all who will listen.<\/h6>\n
My children grown, grand-babies still home\u2026<\/h6>\n
Will know I lived in faith, strong, in the God of my Salvation.<\/h6>\n
From newborn, to a girl of six<\/h6>\n
I learned to walk and talk and run and swim<\/h6>\n
No cares of any, for I was loved by them\u2026<\/h6>\n
From six to eighteen\u2026<\/h6>\n
I learned who Jesus is, and asked him to come and live in me.<\/h6>\n
I learned reading, writing and arithmetic.<\/h6>\n
I learned to ride a bike, climb trees, make friends, drive a car and marry.<\/h6>\n
From eighteen to thirty-one, life barely begun\u2026<\/h6>\n
Four thriving, wonderful sons, now my life was full of fun\u2026<\/h6>\n
There were adventures I\u2019d dreamed that would never come, but some did\u2026<\/h6>\n
Not knowing what life held, just up ahead\u2026<\/h6>\n
From thirty-one to fifty-eight<\/h6>\n
I learned life could be difficult and weary\u2026and full of ache\u2026<\/h6>\n
Heartbroken, and shattered, my dreams were all scattered\u2026I clung to the God I knew<\/h6>\n
Knowing He would not forsake me, He knew just what to do\u2026<\/h6>\n
Rebellion and disobedience leave wounds inside of you, and the pain you feel; only God can heal, as you surrender to His will\u2026<\/h6>\n
From fifty-eight to sixty-three<\/h6>\n
I learned that God still walked with me. I surrendered to the call, he had given me. I learned that life could be happier and fuller, by letting Him live in me\u2026<\/h6>\n
You have a life to live\u2026<\/h6>\n
But remember this\u2026<\/h6>\n
When you are young, you\u2019re strong and have the whole world before you\u2026<\/h6>\n
You make choices, some will be foolish and lead you down a path that is full of heartache and despair\u2026but you won\u2019t know it until you are there\u2026Understand, you can always turn around and begin again\u2026<\/h6>\n
For when you are old, looking back at your life\u2019s journey, you will see, the mistakes you made\u2026the triumphs, the victories and the defeats\u2026there will be wins and there will be losses\u2026so as you go\u2026don\u2019t be so quick to ignore elderly voices, who have been there\u2026 Be wise and listen\u2026there\u2019s a reason for Wisdom\u2026She\u2019s been there and walked the road ahead of you\u2026.She knows the pitfalls and the detours and the slippery slopes of deceit and woe\u2026she\u2019s seen battles won and death come and go\u2026she\u2019s been beaten and abused and dealt with evil and used, but she kept her eyes on the only one who could\u00a0bring her safely home\u2026<\/h6>\n
Don\u2019t be afraid to ask for her\u2026that shows strength of character\u2026and when you come to a crossroad not knowing which way to choose\u2026ask her and she will tell you\u2026<\/h6>\n
Life is bitter and life is sweet.<\/h6>\n
And maybe just maybe you can learn from Her mistakes\u2026<\/h6>\n
Saving you years of heartache\u2026<\/h6>\n
Failures you will make\u2026get back up\u2026 it is never too late\u2026<\/h6>\n
You\u2019ve a long journey to make\u2026<\/h6>\n
Life is your best teacher\u2026.Don\u2019t take a single minute to hesitate\u2026let Wisdom be your guide\u2026<\/h6>\n
When all is done and you are weak and youth has come and gone\u2026<\/h6>\n
If you are wise you\u2019ll know your song of blessings were in disguise\u2026<\/h6>\n
When life was hard and you closed your eyes, to pray<\/h6>\n
Wisdom gave you words that were wise\u2026<\/h6>\n
And you realize, your life is over, and you have to say, \u201cGood-bye.\u201d<\/h6>\n
Listen, live your life in wisdom\u2019s care\u2026<\/h6>\n
When you find you\u2019re slipping and in despair\u2026<\/h6>\n
Reach for the hand, that\u2019s been there\u2026<\/h6>\n
Love completely, laugh sweetly, dream your beautiful dreams\u2026Live your life in moments not days\u2026give your life to others with praise\u2026at the end of your struggling you\u2019ll find His ways…were all worth living for!<\/h6>\n

“Not good-bye, just, see ya later!”<\/p>\n

–Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill June 1, 2017<\/h6>\n
Psalm 37:25 <\/span>New King James Version (NKJV)<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n
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I have been young, and now am old; <\/span><\/em>Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, <\/span><\/em>Nor his descendants begging bread.<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0There will come a day\u2026 When I will have to say\u2026 \u201cGood-bye.\u201d Until that day, I will live trusting, and loving, and giving, and sharing, the love of my God to all who will listen. My children grown, grand-babies still home\u2026 Will know I lived in faith, strong, in the God of my Salvation. From…<\/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-949","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-fj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","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=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}