{"id":146,"date":"2011-01-10T06:55:15","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T06:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/lettinggo\/2011\/01\/starting-over.html"},"modified":"2011-01-10T06:55:15","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T06:55:15","slug":"starting-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2011\/01\/starting-over.html","title":{"rendered":"Starting Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>QUESTION<\/b><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>How can I strengthen my prayer for a new start with the resolve to actually accomplish it?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<b>ANSWER<\/b><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In a certain sense you won&#8217;t find a more important prayer than the wish and the willingness to start your life over. The greatest power you possess for succeeding in life is your understanding that life gives you a fresh start any moment you choose to start fresh. Nothing that stood in your way even a heartbeat before stands there now in the same way. It&#8217;s all new, even if you can&#8217;t as yet see it that way. You&#8217;ve only to test the truth of this fact about the newness of life to discover the incredible freedom that waits for you just behind it. And then nothing can stop you. You&#8217;ll know the real secret and the perfect power of starting over.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUESTION How can I strengthen my prayer for a new start with the resolve to actually accomplish it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[255],"tags":[49,370,369,99],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faithspirituality","tag-faith","tag-new-beginning","tag-prayers","tag-starting-over"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Starting Over - Letting Go with Guy Finley<\/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\/lettinggo\/2011\/01\/starting-over.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Starting Over - 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