{"id":1175,"date":"2017-12-27T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2017-11-07T21:31:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T03:31:17","slug":"setting-sail-toward-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2017\/12\/setting-sail-toward-new-year.html","title":{"rendered":"Setting sail toward a new year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/files\/2016\/11\/IMG_6725-e1480906624785.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-765 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/388\/2016\/11\/IMG_6725-e1480906624785-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6725\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>It is hard to believe we are nearly in 2018. It seems like yesterday we were ringing in 2017 with our hopes and dreams and the new year&#8217;s resolutions we were going to keep going all year. How many of us actually accomplished them?<\/p>\n<p>My resolutions don&#8217;t seem to last more than a day or two, depending on the resolution!<\/p>\n<p>This year, though, I want to focus on spiritual resolutions. I want to set sail toward a new year with God as my captain.<\/p>\n<p>What about you? What are your goals? Share them in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is hard to believe we are nearly in 2018. It seems like yesterday we were ringing in 2017 with our hopes and dreams and the new year&#8217;s resolutions we were going to keep going all year. How many of us actually accomplished them? My resolutions don&#8217;t seem to last more than a day or&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-1175","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>Setting sail toward a new year - 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\/setting-sail-toward-new-year.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Setting sail toward a new year - Through the Lens of Faith\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It is hard to believe we are nearly in 2018. 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