The World Cup turned my world into multiple Soccer fans. Everywhere I went it seemed like Soccer was King.\u00a0 Even folks who had never been to a match before were using words like pitch, header, penalty minutes, knock-out round, golden ball, etc. Nothing wrong with these new words, but then I found an exception – my favorite small town, home cooking, buffet. The place was packed as usual. It was filled with blue jeans, work boots, John Deere hats, and a hostess who called most customers by name as they entered the door. Between my two helpings at the buffet bar and my three trips to the cobbler and home-made ice cream bar, I listened to conversations around me. I heard discussions about the weather, the upcoming status of the local High School football team, how grandma was doing, how Vacation Bible School was going, etc. Not one time did I hear anyone discuss Soccer. Imagine, eating in a restaurant and hearing words about everything but Soccer. Reminds me of Psalm 118:103, \u201cHow sweet are your words to my taste .\u201d I realize that today\u2019s Manna has little if any spiritual dimension, except maybe the value of words. So, let your words, whatever the subject, be winners.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The World Cup turned my world into multiple Soccer fans. Everywhere I went it seemed like Soccer was King.\u00a0 Even folks who had never been to a match before were using words like pitch, header, penalty minutes, knock-out round, golden ball, etc. Nothing wrong with these new words, but then I found an exception –…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-morning-manna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4028,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027\/revisions\/4028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}