{"id":2680,"date":"2019-02-23T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/?p=2680"},"modified":"2019-02-22T21:10:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T02:10:05","slug":"what-you-and-i-never-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/what-you-and-i-never-knew\/","title":{"rendered":"What You and I Never Knew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-html-block\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/wsbrm-a827a8?from=yiiadmin&amp;download=1&amp;version=1\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/wsbrm-a827a8?from=yiiadmin&amp;download=1&amp;version=1\" height=\"122\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong><u>Some of us older folks remember the opening of \u201cThe Wide World of Sports\u201d on ABC each weekend<\/u>.<\/strong> Jim McKay would say, <strong><em>\u201cThe thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">As he said, <strong><em>\u201cthe agony of defeat,\u201d <\/em><\/strong>we saw a skier who appeared to be in good form as he headed down the jump. Then, for no apparent reason, he tumbled head over heels off the side of the jump, bouncing off the supporting structures. <\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong><em>What you and I never knew was that the skier chose to fall rather than finish the jump. Why? <\/em><\/strong><u>He explained later that the jump surface had become too slick and fast. Midway down the ramp, he realized that if he completed the jump, he would have landed on level ground, instead of a safe slope<\/u>. <strong><em>This could have cost him his life. All he suffered was a bad headache. <br \/><\/em><\/strong><br \/><strong><em>For you and me, to change the course of our ways can be dramatic and often painful. But changing our course in life is better than a fatal ending for our souls in eternity.<\/em><\/strong> <em><u>A God Alert<br \/><\/u><\/em><br \/><strong><em><u>Growth<\/u> is painful<br \/><u>Change<\/u> is painful<br \/>But nothing is as painful as <u>staying stuck somewhere you don\u2019t belong<\/u>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><u>Embrace Uncertainty<\/u>. <br \/>Some of the Most Beautiful Chapters of our Lives<br \/><u>Won\u2019t have Titles until Much Later<\/u>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Some of us older folks remember the opening of \u201cThe Wide World of Sports\u201d on ABC each weekend. Jim McKay would say, \u201cThe thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.\u201d As he said, \u201cthe agony of defeat,\u201d we saw a skier who appeared to be in good form as he headed down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"qubely_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1550495619_featured.png",150,150,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1550495619_featured.png",150,150,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1550495619_featured.png",150,150,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1550495619_featured.png",150,150,false],"medium":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1550495619_featured.png",150,150,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1550495619_featured.png",150,150,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1550495619_featured.png",150,150,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1550495619_featured.png",150,150,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1550495619_featured.png",150,150,false],"ocean-thumb-m":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1550495619_featured.png",150,150,false],"ocean-thumb-ml":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1550495619_featured.png",150,150,false],"ocean-thumb-l":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1550495619_featured.png",150,150,false],"qubely_landscape":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1550495619_featured.png",150,150,false],"qubely_portrait":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1550495619_featured.png",150,150,false],"qubely_thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1550495619_featured.png",100,100,false],"rpwe-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1550495619_featured-45x45.png",45,45,true]},"qubely_author":{"display_name":"Medard Laz","author_link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/author\/medlaz\/"},"qubely_comment":0,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/category\/daily-treats\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Daily Treats<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"&nbsp; &nbsp; Some of us older folks remember the opening of \u201cThe Wide World of Sports\u201d on ABC each weekend. 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