{"id":549,"date":"2009-12-17T01:12:39","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T05:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/?p=549"},"modified":"2009-12-17T01:12:39","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T05:12:39","slug":"get-the-shaft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/get-the-shaft\/","title":{"rendered":"Get The Shaft."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/weeds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-550\" title=\"weeds\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/weeds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"87\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0The parable of the weeds.\u00a0The good with the bad, the shaft with the wheat. It&#8217;s all part of the same crop.\u00a0Says so, right there in the Bible&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>We are taught to sow the good seeds-to bloom where we are planted-to grow\u00a0with every garden analogy possible. Somewhere along the way\u00a0good sense in tact and God willing,\u00a0we are expected to weed out that which does not sow.\u00a0 Grab hold of the good and run.\u00a0 But fast.\u00a0 Peel\u00a0away the bad and run.\u00a0 But fast.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the dilemma.\u00a0 Wait.\u00a0 Here is <em>my <\/em>dilemma.\u00a0 I am not in favor of everything being good all the time.\u00a0 Not that I would choose the not so good-but not so good has been good for me.\u00a0 The parable of my own weeds has taught me plenty. It\u00a0has been\u00a0brow beaten heavy at times\u00a0and I am sure there are parts of me more exposed to the road well traveled than the path less taken.\u00a0 I never seem to have found the right way to easy street.\u00a0 I was always on the wrong corner.\u00a0 Oh was I?\u00a0 There at the fork in the road of looking back and looking within-I somehow found the right road.\u00a0Pot holes and all.\u00a0 And no, this is not an analogy for any other kind of weed. I refer\u00a0simply to the big ass bumps in the road and\u00a0craters of\u00a0jagged asphalt that you never see coming\u00a0until you are barreling over them at full speed.\u00a0 I seem to hit them all.<\/p>\n<p>My wheat and my shaft.\u00a0 The wheat allowed\u00a0me to\u00a0keep going and the shaft\u00a0forced me to be stronger for the journey. Though I am certain, that slap dab in the middle of it all-I had not a clue as to why I was getting the shaft.\u00a0 If the wheat makes us take stock and recall-then I am in the field of dreams-\u00a0 content with the imperfections and nakedness of all knowing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=217894238264870\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/get-the-shaft\/\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"al2fb_send_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=217894238264870\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:send ref=\"AL2FB\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/get-the-shaft\/\"><\/fb:send><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0The parable of the weeds.\u00a0The good with the bad, the shaft with the wheat. It&#8217;s all part of the same crop.\u00a0Says so, right there in the Bible&#8230;.. We are taught to sow the good seeds-to bloom where we are planted-to grow\u00a0with every garden analogy possible. Somewhere along the way\u00a0good sense in tact and God willing,\u00a0we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}