{"id":1100,"date":"2017-10-30T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2017-09-25T21:09:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T02:09:39","slug":"looks-can-deceiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2017\/10\/looks-can-deceiving.html","title":{"rendered":"Looks can be deceiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I look at this image, it evokes a couple of things to me.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/files\/2017\/08\/IMG_0255.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1088 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/388\/2017\/08\/IMG_0255-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0255\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you look at it from the center outward, it almost seems like it is a winged creature. Looking straight ahead, it is as if you&#8217;re able to walk across the bricks.<\/p>\n<p>So many things in our lives can look deceiving. We think we are heading in one direction and find out we are going in another.<\/p>\n<p>We need to rely on our faith to be our true north and ask God for direction in this deceiving world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I look at this image, it evokes a couple of things to me.\u00a0 If you look at it from the center outward, it almost seems like it is a winged creature. Looking straight ahead, it is as if you&#8217;re able to walk across the bricks. So many things in our lives can look deceiving.&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-1100","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>Looks can be deceiving - 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\/10\/looks-can-deceiving.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Looks can be deceiving - Through the Lens of Faith\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"When I look at this image, it evokes a couple of things to me.\u00a0 If you look at it from the center outward, it almost seems like it is a winged creature. 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