{"id":296,"date":"2015-10-07T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/?p=296"},"modified":"2015-09-17T21:18:07","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T02:18:07","slug":"folds-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2015\/10\/folds-of-faith.html","title":{"rendered":"Folds of Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever feel like you are\u00a0pulled and tugged in a million different directions? You want to be faithful and believe, yet life can challenge everything you think you\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-276 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/388\/2015\/08\/IMG_0061-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0061\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/>believe or hope to believe?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes in the midst of being pulled and tugged in those million directions, a beautiful shape can emerge, just like this origami crane.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to know what all these twists and turns are leading to and what the end result might be.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps your faith will lead you to be a beautiful crane or shape itself into a butterfly, free to be open to anything you experience in this life.<\/p>\n<p>We only see one side of the picture. Pick up a piece of paper this week, start folding and see what comes to light!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever feel like you are\u00a0pulled and tugged in a million different directions? 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