{"id":1206,"date":"2011-06-05T15:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2011-06-20T11:31:39","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T15:31:39","slug":"the-antidote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/?p=1206","title":{"rendered":"The Antidote"},"content":{"rendered":"

The poison ivy got me.\u00a0 I put on gloves and went to war, pulling it up by the roots, yanking it up and breaking it off with reckless abandon.\u00a0 I’ve beaten it.\u00a0 It no longer lurks in the shrubs, waiting to ambush a hapless victim, but it didn’t go down without a fight.\u00a0 It’s left me wounded, struggling with itchy blisters around my wrist.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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An Encounter with Poison Ivy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Last Monday I pulled up the poison ivy vines and threw them over the back fence.\u00a0 They have\u00a0probably\u00a0long since withered in the hot June sun, but I’m still scratching and suffering\u00a0because my gloves and my sleeves didn’t meet.\u00a0 The gloves didn’t cover enough.\u00a0 I was too careless.\u00a0 Too confident.\u00a0 The first day or so after the event, I was fine.\u00a0 I thought I had gotten away with it.\u00a0\u00a0All the while, the poison was working it’s way into my skin.\u00a0 Now I’m paying the price and the evidence is clear to see.
\n\u00a0<\/div>\n
This whole\u00a0affair reminds me a little of another affair that has been in the news lately.\u00a0 A past presidential candidate played with the poison and thought he got away with it . . . for a while.\u00a0 Now the ugly mess is spread all over him.\u00a0 Sooner or later, it always does.\u00a0 It pops out and leaves\u00a0a person miserable.\u00a0 There is only one cure.
\n\u00a0<\/div>\n

It occurred to me\u00a0this\u00a0Sunday.\u00a0 I was walking down\u00a0the\u00a0aisle to take communion.\u00a0 I looked at my ugly sores and thought how wonderful it would be to just wash away the poison and all the ugly, itchy painful\u00a0mess all over my wrist.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0As I\u00a0took the bread and the juice, I realized that over 2000 years ago, on a wooden cross, Jesus had done it.\u00a0 For sure,\u00a0He still does it today.\u00a0 He offers the cure for a sore and blistered heart.\u00a0 The satisfaction for a soul that itches for peace.\u00a0 He offers it freely,\u00a0if we will only take it.\u00a0 The bread and the juice had special meaning to me today.\u00a0 He is the Antidote for\u00a0the poison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The poison ivy got me.\u00a0 I put on gloves and went to war, pulling it up by the roots, yanking it up and breaking it off with reckless abandon.\u00a0 I’ve beaten it.\u00a0 It no longer lurks in the shrubs, waiting to ambush a hapless victim, but it didn’t go down without a fight.\u00a0 It’s left […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[146,147,145,144],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-clean","tag-communion","tag-cure","tag-poison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1234,"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions\/1234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}