{"id":2497,"date":"2014-03-30T21:24:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T21:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oshetablogs.wordpress.com\/?p=2497"},"modified":"2014-03-30T21:24:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T21:24:46","slug":"lets-go-be-brave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/shalominthecity\/2014\/03\/lets-go-be-brave\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#039;s Go Be Brave"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oshetablogs.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/brandnew.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2499\" src=\"https:\/\/oshetablogs.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/brandnew.jpg\" alt=\"brandnew\" width=\"640\" height=\"561\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The above line is from Pharrell William\u2019s song, <a href=\"http:\/\/rock.rapgenius.com\/Pharrell-williams-brand-new-lyrics\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cBrand New\u201d <\/a>featuring Justin Timberlake.\u00a0 Yeah, you read that right!\u00a0 What\u2019s NOT to love about JT and Pharrell teaming up?\u00a0 And like I suspected, when my friend and story sister,<a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/sOEl9-reset\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u00a0A\u2019Driane Nieves<\/a>\u00a0 shared the song, I fell in love with it\u2014immediately.\u00a0 So it\u2019s the inspiration for today\u2019s addition to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deidrariggs.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cThe Sunday Community\u201d . <\/a>It\u2019s\u00a0 a PERFECT jam for our family\u2019s upcoming season of transitions.\u00a0 We\u2019re at a precipice of so many crazy but good leaps of faith. It\u2019s thrilling, yet terrifying to know God has something really cool for us, but a major step of faith is necessary before we see it.\u00a0 Enter this ultra cool, \u201cJackson-eque\u201d song that is both a love song and a hopeful dance anthem! While listening to it, I was reminded of that scripture in Isaiah,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/biblehub.com\/isaiah\/43-19.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cBehold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.\u201d <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2026which just made me want to dance even more.<\/p>\n<p>For real!\u00a0 Y\u2019all should have seen me doing \u201cThe Carlton\u201d across my kitchen making homemade spaghetti sauce:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oshetablogs.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/tumblr_mtnvjialo81ryxjdbo1_500.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2498\" src=\"https:\/\/oshetablogs.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/tumblr_mtnvjialo81ryxjdbo1_500.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_mtnvjiaLo81ryxjdbo1_500\" width=\"470\" height=\"322\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well\u2026maybe not!\u00a0 Anyway, this song is so infectiously joyful, I\u2019m going to share it with you.<\/p>\n<p>You can now do \u201cThe Carlton\u201d.\u00a0 You\u2019re welcome.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4pwOGbnlD5Q\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4pwOGbnlD5Q<\/a>\n<p>See you back here tomorrow with new words.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dancing to \u201cBrand New\u201d while I go clean the kitchen,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oshetablogs.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/signature.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-151 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/oshetablogs.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/signature.png\" alt=\"signature\" width=\"124\" height=\"55\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oshetablogs.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/the-sunday-community-4or.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2476\" src=\"https:\/\/oshetablogs.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/the-sunday-community-4or.png\" alt=\"The-Sunday-Community-4OR\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The above line is from Pharrell William\u2019s song, \u201cBrand New\u201d featuring Justin Timberlake.\u00a0 Yeah, you read that right!\u00a0 What\u2019s NOT to love about JT and Pharrell teaming up?\u00a0 And like I suspected, when my friend and story sister,\u00a0A\u2019Driane Nieves\u00a0 shared the song, I fell in love with it\u2014immediately.\u00a0 So it\u2019s the inspiration for today\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3037,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,398,447],"tags":[452,453,454,455,456,70,457,458,459,350],"class_list":["post-2497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-faith","category-what-im-into","tag-boston-skyline","tag-brand-new","tag-carlton-banks","tag-dancing","tag-isaiah","tag-justin-timberlake","tag-morning","tag-new-thing","tag-pharrell-williams","tag-sunday-community"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Let&#039;s Go Be Brave<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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