{"id":172,"date":"2015-06-08T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/?p=172"},"modified":"2015-06-03T12:31:53","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T17:31:53","slug":"treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2015\/06\/treasure.html","title":{"rendered":"Treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/files\/2015\/06\/IMG_7174.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-182\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/388\/2015\/06\/IMG_7174-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7174\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I walked through an estate sale recently.\u00a0I love looking at what others have collected over the years. It\u00a0gets me thinking about what I collect. As I looked at the various knickknacks, clothing and furniture for sale, I started to wonder what people would find as treasure if they went through my house. Would they find my collection of angels endearing or my books interesting? Would they find anything worth buying? For some, money is a treasure.<\/p>\n<p>What do you treasure in your life? I know there is always a something to treasure, someone to treasure, faith to treasure.<\/p>\n<p>Do others believe in the same things you treasure? Take a look around your house this week. Do you see things that you would count as your biggest treasure. Make note of who you find as treasure in your life. Maybe even write a note to those people and say thank you for being a treasure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I walked through an estate sale recently.\u00a0I love looking at what others have collected over the years. It\u00a0gets me thinking about what I collect. As I looked at the various knickknacks, clothing and furniture for sale, I started to wonder what people would find as treasure if they went through my house. Would they find&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-172","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>Treasure - 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\/2015\/06\/treasure.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Treasure - Through the Lens of Faith\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I walked through an estate sale recently.\u00a0I love looking at what others have collected over the years. 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