{"id":336,"date":"2011-01-30T17:27:09","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T22:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ministryserver.com\/wp\/?page_id=336"},"modified":"2011-01-30T17:31:05","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T22:31:05","slug":"chalk-dust","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ministryserver.com\/wp\/?page_id=336","title":{"rendered":"Chalk Dust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CHALK DUST&nbsp;<\/strong><br \/>\n\t<em>Ray Waugh, Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Did you ever snap a football<br \/>\n\t&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; that had chalk from the yard stripe on it?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Well, I remember one Friday under the lights<br \/>\n\t&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; long ago, when this happened to me.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">I don&#39;t think that the &ldquo;chalk dust&rdquo; which made the yard line<br \/>\n\t&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; interrupted play,<br \/>\n\t&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; nor did it cause us to lose the game.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Our past is like just so much &quot;chalk dust.&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Much of our past is like so much extra baggage.<br \/>\n\t&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It does not add much weight to the present,<br \/>\n\t&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;adds a little contrast of colors helping us.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is too much now and for sure too much tomorrow<br \/>\n\t&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; to dwell long on the gone past . . .<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, &nbsp;I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus . Philippians 3:13-14<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHALK DUST&nbsp; Ray Waugh, Jr. Did you ever snap a football &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; that had chalk from the yard stripe on it? Well, I remember one Friday under the lights &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; long ago, when this happened to me. I don&#39;t think &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ministryserver.com\/wp\/?page_id=336\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":297,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-336","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ministryserver.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ministryserver.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ministryserver.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ministryserver.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ministryserver.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ministryserver.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/336\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ministryserver.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ministryserver.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}