{"id":101,"date":"2011-10-21T11:49:19","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T11:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/prayables\/?p=101"},"modified":"2011-10-21T11:51:49","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T11:51:49","slug":"flipping-the-faith-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayables\/2011\/10\/flipping-the-faith-switch.html","title":{"rendered":"Flipping the Faith Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I think light and dark are in each of us and we can tap into either avenue at any point in time.<\/p>\n

When I was expecting my son years ago, I prayed every day: “Please give me a happy, healthy, well-adjusted son with a strong backbone and a mind of his own.”<\/p>\n

As in, make him all the things I’m not.<\/p>\n

Instead of creating another human being and making him a repository for all my neuroses and flaws, perhaps I should have started working on myself. It took me many years to reach the point where I was able to honestly examine where I was in life.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t until I saw the tail-end of an Oprah show about the new-age film, the Secret, that I started to wonder how much of this I had done to myself. And I was shocked at the answer. Every time I said, “I’ll stay in this job, for now”, or “I’ll keep the status quo of this dysfunctional marriage,” I made my choice. Each interim measure that lasted for years had my fingerprints all over it.<\/p>\n

So I opened up to the notion of possibility. Hope. Grace. And found that I could turn the light on in my own life if I just had a little faith.<\/p>\n

-Ruth Williams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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