{"id":3831,"date":"2020-07-09T16:43:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T00:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=3831"},"modified":"2020-07-09T16:43:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T00:43:35","slug":"beyond-birthdays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=3831","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Birthday&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><em>Beyond Birthday\u2019s<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>A birthday comes but once a year.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>I am having one soon, I fear.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>What does a birthday do for one?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>You are then a year older than some.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>They will catch up given time.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Then they will say all is fine.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>We were created to live forever.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>We used to live longer. Don\u2019t say never.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Being 100 is called a ripe old age.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Pre flood time, living longer was the rage.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>But, to get back to living forever.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>You must first get rid of that tether.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>The tether being the sin in your life.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Only God can remove such strife.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Eventually, He will put on you immortality.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>But, you will know much better morality.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>You will be equipped to live forever.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>To do so in your present state. Never!!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>It would the worst curse of any kind.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>But, this never comes to mind.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Take more supplements. Exercise like crazy.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Don\u2019t be a couch potato. Don\u2019t be lazy.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>All these fixes have limited benefits.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>You are not even getting a hint of it.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>For eternal life, there is just one way.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>The Way. The Truth. The Life. Is the only way.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<strong><em>R.W. Johnson&#8212;&#8211;(2020)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Beyond Birthday\u2019s A birthday comes but once a year. I am having one soon, I fear. What does a birthday do for one? You are then a year older than some. They will catch up given time. Then they will say all is fine. We were created to live forever. We used to live &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=3831\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beyond Birthday&#8217;s<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3832,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831\/revisions\/3832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}