{"id":1224,"date":"2018-02-12T05:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2018-01-29T16:21:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T22:21:35","slug":"keeping-souls-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2018\/02\/keeping-souls-light.html","title":{"rendered":"Keeping our souls light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watching the news can leave us with a heavy heart at times. We hear or read about cruelty to others and see how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_4614.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1214 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/388\/2018\/01\/IMG_4614-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4614\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>the political figures do not respond perhaps the way we would like.<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot of heaviness.<\/p>\n<p>Yet our souls can be lightened through prayer. God will not allow darkness to swallow us. Through God&#8217;s intercession we can feel our souls become light.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s the saying about being light as a feather. Let&#8217;s pray this week to keep our souls light as a feather, as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching the news can leave us with a heavy heart at times. We hear or read about cruelty to others and see how the political figures do not respond perhaps the way we would like. There is a lot of heaviness. Yet our souls can be lightened through prayer. God will not allow darkness to&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-1224","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>Keeping our souls light - 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\/2018\/02\/keeping-souls-light.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Keeping our souls light - Through the Lens of Faith\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Watching the news can leave us with a heavy heart at times. 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