{"id":2362,"date":"2014-01-19T09:44:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T14:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/?p=2362"},"modified":"2014-01-08T07:49:32","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T12:49:32","slug":"cold-weather-not-so-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2014\/01\/cold-weather-not-so-bad.html","title":{"rendered":"Cold weather not so bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it is zero degrees outside, my fingers and feet get cold walking to the mailbox. But, I see deer tracks, bunny tracks, and birds flying all around. Instead of focusing so much on how cold I am<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2011\/08\/inconvenient-complaint.html\">, I push my mind outside <\/a>of itself. I contemplate divine Mind.<\/p>\n<p>We read in <i>21<sup>st<\/sup> Century Science and Health,<\/i> \u201cHeat and cold are products of the human mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Divine Mind produces<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2011\/10\/listen-up.html\"> wisdom, activity<\/a>, creativity, therefore I can move around and keep warm. I don\u2019t need to fear or dread the cold. I can deal with the cold wisely.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2364\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2364\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/files\/2014\/01\/deer-in-woods-and-snow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2364\" alt=\"A deer, dressed in a cozy fur coat, near our home in New York\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/269\/2014\/01\/deer-in-woods-and-snow-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A deer, dressed in a cozy fur coat, near our home in New York<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it is zero degrees outside, my fingers and feet get cold walking to the mailbox. But, I see deer tracks, bunny tracks, and birds flying all around. 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