{"id":9978,"date":"2026-02-09T15:50:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=9978"},"modified":"2026-02-09T15:50:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:50:52","slug":"allow-the-little-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/allow-the-little-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Allow the Little Children"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Seven little children came out to play today.<\/h6>\n
Five little boys and two little girls.<\/h6>\n
Running, laughing, skipping, cartwheels and twirls\u2026<\/h6>\n
Spirit\u2019s free, this is how happiness should be\u2026<\/h6>\n
No worries of what the day will bring<\/h6>\n
On a Wintery day, no need to wait for Spring\u2026<\/h6>\n
Seven little hearts, carefree, like a dream<\/h6>\n
Innocence sparkling like a sunbeam\u2026<\/h6>\n
Going wherever the chase takes them.<\/h6>\n
Uninhibited, no judgement or complaints.<\/h6>\n
Little children, not saints.<\/h6>\n
<\/h6>\n
Allow the little children to come unto me,<\/em><\/h6>\n
And forbid them not to come unto me,<\/em><\/h6>\n
for of such is the kingdom of heaven.<\/em><\/h6>\n
\u00a0<\/em><\/h6>\n
These are heaven\u2019s children, full of faith, all seven!<\/h6>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve come to see Jesus, to sit upon his knee\u2026<\/h6>\n
With great admiration we come in humility!\u201d<\/h6>\n
Seven children came out to play today<\/h6>\n
Do not forbid them but show them the way.<\/h6>\n
~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill February 7, 2026<\/h6>\n
Matthew 19:14 King James Version<\/em><\/strong> – <\/em>But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.<\/em><\/h6>\n
\u00a0<\/em>I wrote this for my three grandchildren and four neighbor\u2019s children. There were five boys and two girls entering my house to play. It was a sight to behold. Following in a line one behind the other. The littlest one at the end. Then like a flash they all ran outside, and ran through the back yard. My heart was overflowing. I told my son, \u201cSeven, five boys and two girls, that\u2019s how many children my grandmother raised, alone.\u201d He said, \u201cWell that explains a lot!\u201d Watching them all together was glorious! I don\u2019t know how my granny did it, but she did!! Well, it was God\u2019s grace!<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seven little children came out to play today. Five little boys and two little girls. Running, laughing, skipping, cartwheels and twirls\u2026 Spirit\u2019s free, this is how happiness should be\u2026 No worries of what the day will bring On a Wintery day, no need to wait for Spring\u2026 Seven little hearts, carefree, like a dream Innocence…<\/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-9978","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-2AW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9978","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=9978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9980,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9978\/revisions\/9980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}