{"id":1094,"date":"2017-09-20T05:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T10:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2017-09-01T06:40:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T11:40:25","slug":"a-different-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2017\/09\/a-different-perspective.html","title":{"rendered":"A different perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have walked by these words every weekday for a year.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/files\/2017\/08\/IMG_0352-e1504265581655.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1083 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/388\/2017\/08\/IMG_0352-e1504265581655-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0352\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t totally pay attention to them, knowing they were stickers in a window. But when I did, I was struck by the perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t give up.<\/p>\n<p>Yet how many times do we want to give up when we can only see the backside of an issue? Sometimes we are looking at things in reverse.<\/p>\n<p>Look back at your life, even the past few days, and see if there is something you need to consider differently. Ask God to show you how to approach a difficult situation.<\/p>\n<p>Just don&#8217;t give up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have walked by these words every weekday for a year.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t totally pay attention to them, knowing they were stickers in a window. But when I did, I was struck by the perspective. Don&#8217;t give up. Yet how many times do we want to give up when we can only see the backside&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":591,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A different perspective - Through the Lens of Faith<\/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\/throughthelensoffaith\/2017\/09\/a-different-perspective.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A different perspective - Through the Lens of Faith\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I have walked by these words every weekday for a year.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t totally pay attention to them, knowing they were stickers in a window. 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