{"id":1155,"date":"2017-12-06T05:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2017-10-10T17:38:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T22:38:29","slug":"patterns-emerge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2017\/12\/patterns-emerge.html","title":{"rendered":"Patterns emerge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the season of light. Trees are decorated, sometimes with multicolored <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/files\/2017\/09\/IMG_1185-e1507250203644.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1123 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/388\/2017\/09\/IMG_1185-e1507250203644-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1185\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>lights. Some lights blink and others stay still.<\/p>\n<p>I have noticed there is a pattern to some strands that twinkle, take a break and then start again.<\/p>\n<p>It is fun to see houses decorated with lights that follow a song and dance across the house in different patterns.<\/p>\n<p>What patterns have you noticed in your spiritual life? Do you find it easier to pray when things are only going well? Can you find a way to pray that brings you comfort when things are not going as well.<\/p>\n<p>This week, consider the patterns of your prayer life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the season of light. Trees are decorated, sometimes with multicolored lights. Some lights blink and others stay still. I have noticed there is a pattern to some strands that twinkle, take a break and then start again. It is fun to see houses decorated with lights that follow a song and dance across&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-1155","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>Patterns emerge - 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\/12\/patterns-emerge.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Patterns emerge - Through the Lens of Faith\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is the season of light. 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