{"id":1273,"date":"2018-04-25T05:00:11","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2018-03-20T21:16:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T02:16:12","slug":"doors-to-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2018\/04\/doors-to-opportunity.html","title":{"rendered":"Doors to opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another month is nearing its conclusion! It&#8217;s hard to believe how fast the months fly by anymore.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/files\/2017\/02\/IMG_0107-e1496171409598.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-876 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/388\/2017\/02\/IMG_0107-e1496171409598-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0107\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But with a new month can come new promises and new expressions faith.<\/p>\n<p>The door to a new month will open soon. What are your hopes for the coming month in your prayer life? What opportunities are you praying for?<\/p>\n<p>I love seeing old doors, like the one in the photo. Who has passed through these doors? What friends and family saw each other on the other side of this door? What memories were made?<\/p>\n<p>The next door you pass through, take a minute to pray for the others who will walk through the door. It may bring us one step closer to each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another month is nearing its conclusion! It&#8217;s hard to believe how fast the months fly by anymore.\u00a0 But with a new month can come new promises and new expressions faith. The door to a new month will open soon. What are your hopes for the coming month in your prayer life? What opportunities are you&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-1273","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>Doors to opportunity - 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\/04\/doors-to-opportunity.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Doors to opportunity - Through the Lens of Faith\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Another month is nearing its conclusion! 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