{"id":26,"date":"2015-07-01T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/?p=26"},"modified":"2015-06-22T14:19:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T19:19:54","slug":"perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2015\/07\/perspective.html","title":{"rendered":"Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/files\/2015\/06\/Perspective.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-200\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/388\/2015\/06\/Perspective-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Perspective\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it helps to get a different perspective.<\/p>\n<p>This photo seems to show a totally different place and experience when it is seen this way than what the actual reality of the place may be.<\/p>\n<p>With a different perspective, one can see beauty in a place that didn&#8217;t look so nice before. One can see light where there may be darkness.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I get so focused on one perspective and get frustrated that I can&#8217;t find what is good in a situation.<\/p>\n<p>So maybe we need to flip the picture around in our minds and see things a little differently? It&#8217;s worth a try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it helps to get a different perspective. This photo seems to show a totally different place and experience when it is seen this way than what the actual reality of the place may be. With a different perspective, one can see beauty in a place that didn&#8217;t look so nice before. One can see&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-26","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>Perspective - 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\/07\/perspective.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Perspective - Through the Lens of Faith\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sometimes it helps to get a different perspective. 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