{"id":968,"date":"2017-06-05T18:12:28","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T23:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=968"},"modified":"2017-10-15T16:09:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T21:09:28","slug":"a-hug-for-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/05\/a-hug-for-god\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hug for God"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I hugged God today<\/h6>\n
I knew he\u2019d come<\/h6>\n
He promised he would<\/h6>\n
I saw his face in the tiny child<\/h6>\n
Called Jesus, Savior of the human race\u2026<\/h6>\n
I felt him snuggle up close to me<\/h6>\n
In my embrace…<\/h6>\n
God, the great I AM<\/h6>\n
Held within my arms\u2026<\/h6>\n
The one who created me<\/h6>\n
Is alive and I am free\u2026<\/h6>\n
Now I can lay me down in rest\u2026<\/h6>\n
Go to sleep in peacefulness\u2026<\/h6>\n
God was hugged by me I confess<\/h6>\n
Messiah, Redeemer, Good Shepherd<\/h6>\n
Gentleness\u2026<\/h6>\n
Sovereign Lord, as you have promised<\/h6>\n
I held you today…<\/h6>\n
Simeon, my precious son\u2026<\/em><\/h6>\n
Life is sweet<\/em><\/h6>\n
When everyone\u2026<\/em><\/h6>\n
Opens their eyes and fully beholds<\/em><\/h6>\n
The redemption in the face of God.<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/h6>\n
I held God in my arms today\u2026<\/h6>\n
God smiled in his special way\u2026<\/h6>\n
I was held by my child today.<\/em><\/h6>\n
–Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill June 5, 2017<\/h6>\n
(as it is written in the Law of the Lord, \u201cEvery firstborn male is to be consecrated to the Lord\u201d), and to offer a sacrifice in keeping with what is said in the Law of the Lord: \u201ca pair of doves or two young pigeons.\u201d<\/em><\/h6>\n
Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him. It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord\u2019s Messiah. Moved by the Spirit, he went into the temple courts. When the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what the custom of the Law required, 28\u00a0<\/sup>Simeon took him in his arms and praised God, saying:<\/em><\/h6>\n
\u201cSovereign Lord, as you have promised, you may now dismiss your servant in peace. For my eyes have seen your salvation, which you have prepared in the sight of all nations: a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel.\u201d<\/em><\/h6>\n
The child\u2019s father and mother marveled at what was said about him. Then Simeon blessed them and said to Mary, his mother: \u201cThis child is destined to cause the falling and rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be spoken against, so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed. And a sword will pierce your own soul too.\u201d Luke 2:23-35 New International Version (NIV)<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hugged God today I knew he\u2019d come He promised he would I saw his face in the tiny child Called Jesus, Savior of the human race\u2026 I felt him snuggle up close to me In my embrace… God, the great I AM Held within my arms\u2026 The one who created me Is alive and…<\/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-968","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-fC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","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=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1555,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/1555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}