{"id":254,"date":"2007-03-09T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jwalking\/2007\/03\/mystery.html"},"modified":"2007-03-09T12:59:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T12:59:00","slug":"mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jwalking\/2007\/03\/mystery.html","title":{"rendered":"The mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The beauty of a cross-country flight is the wonder of no Internet connections. As such, I was able to start to dig through old emails. Whenever you dig, you find gold and I found this from a dear friend last year who I was talking to about life&#8217;s challenges and tragedies and God&#8217;s place in\/absence from them. He wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I agree and I don&#8217;t have answers.  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