{"id":4979,"date":"2011-05-09T06:33:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T10:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/?p=4979"},"modified":"2011-05-09T09:02:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T13:02:48","slug":"tom-mcgrath-wonders-are-all-around-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2011\/05\/tom-mcgrath-wonders-are-all-around-us.html","title":{"rendered":"Tom McGrath: Wonders Are All Around Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/71\/2011\/05\/tom-mcgrath1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/71\/2011\/05\/tom-mcgrath1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"347\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5059\" \/><\/a>Do you ever get stuck in your own gloomy thoughts?\u00a0<a id=\"ad56907e-b828-4b36-bc0d-73b27713e299\" href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/faiths\/christianity\/catholic\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Catholic<\/a> parenting expert Tom McGrath suggests looking through the eyes of a child. If you do, he says, you\u2019ll see that light shines through darkness and that joy is yours to enjoy every day.<\/p>\n<p>Tom was actually my first boss. Poor man. I feel very fortunate to have him as one of my mentors, both professionally and personally. <a href=\"http:\/\/bcove.me\/g8ucpjvq\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>I was very moved by this video.<\/strong><\/a> I hope you are too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever get stuck in your own gloomy thoughts?\u00a0Catholic parenting expert Tom McGrath suggests looking through the eyes of a child. If you do, he says, you\u2019ll see that light shines through darkness and that joy is yours to enjoy every day. Tom was actually my first boss. Poor man. I feel very fortunate&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration-and-prayer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tom McGrath: Wonders Are All Around Us - Beyond Blue<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2011\/05\/tom-mcgrath-wonders-are-all-around-us.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tom McGrath: Wonders Are All Around Us - Beyond Blue\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Do you ever get stuck in your own gloomy thoughts?\u00a0Catholic parenting expert Tom McGrath suggests looking through the eyes of a child. 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