{"id":419,"date":"2016-10-19T05:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/?p=419"},"modified":"2016-10-08T12:46:48","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T17:46:48","slug":"stacking-deck-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2016\/10\/stacking-deck-faith.html","title":{"rendered":"Stacking the Deck in Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/files\/2016\/10\/IMG_5442-e1475948633491.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-722 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/388\/2016\/10\/IMG_5442-e1475948633491-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5442\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>A nice card game can provide a distraction from the cold and dreary nights. The 52 cards can mix up in so many different ways for hours of fun.<\/p>\n<p>I like that there are the same amount of cards as there are weeks in the year. If you have a hard time counting blessings or want to try something new, take a card in each deck and name something that you&#8217;re grateful for that either starts with the letters AKQJ or the name a number of things starting with 2 through 10.<\/p>\n<p>It might be hard to think of something for each, but you can always combine a few cards for the Blackjack game of the year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nice card game can provide a distraction from the cold and dreary nights. The 52 cards can mix up in so many different ways for hours of fun. I like that there are the same amount of cards as there are weeks in the year. If you have a hard time counting blessings or&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-419","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>Stacking the Deck in Faith - 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\/2016\/10\/stacking-deck-faith.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Stacking the Deck in Faith - Through the Lens of Faith\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A nice card game can provide a distraction from the cold and dreary nights. 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