{"id":658,"date":"2008-10-08T07:36:27","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T14:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=658"},"modified":"2008-10-08T07:36:27","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T14:36:27","slug":"good-like-a-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2008\/good-like-a-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Good, Like a Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=150 border=0 cellpadding=10 cellspacing=0 bgcolor=\"#003300\" align=right align=texttop>\n<tr>\n<td><b><font color=\"#339933\">Reading:<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">Proverbs 17:20-28<\/font><br \/>\n<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>When someone has a cough, offer them a zinc lozenge or a dose of cough syrup or some Vitamin C or all three.<\/p>\n<p>If the problem is a headache, offer aspirin or acetaminophen.<\/p>\n<p>For a cut, a triple antibiotic.<\/p>\n<p>A stab wound? Call 9-1-1. (At least.)<\/p>\n<p>But what about hurts and wounds to the soul and spirit?<\/p>\n<p>What if the threat of infection is to the mind or the will or the emotions?<\/p>\n<p>Or the morals? Or the values? Or the convictions?<\/p>\n<p>My thoughts have flowed along that channel after reading this verse:<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (21).<\/p>\n<p>I want to be one whose state of heart and spirit does good to others (and to me).<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/countedwise-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/countedwise-s.jpg\" alt=\"[Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise (Proverbs 17:28)]\" title=\"Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise (Proverbs 17:28)\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>from Proverbs 17:28<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>A little bit more from Proverbs 17:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/cgi-bin\/webbbs\/lift\/lift.cgi?read=8715\"><font color=green>That You?<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading: Proverbs 17:20-28 When someone has a cough, offer them a zinc lozenge or a dose of cough syrup or some Vitamin C or all three. If the problem is a headache, offer aspirin or acetaminophen. For a cut, a triple antibiotic. A stab wound? Call 9-1-1. (At least.) But what about hurts and wounds [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[39,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-proverbs","7":"tag-encouragement","8":"tag-live-right","9":"h-entry","10":"hentry","11":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-aC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}