{"id":512,"date":"2016-04-04T05:00:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T10:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/?p=512"},"modified":"2016-03-25T23:45:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T04:45:45","slug":"making-wishes-in-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2016\/04\/making-wishes-in-spring.html","title":{"rendered":"Making wishes in spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite things to do when I was little at my grandparents&#8217; house was pick these little weeds and make a wish as I blew the<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-444 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/388\/2016\/01\/making-wishes-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"making wishes\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> seeds apart. I thought it was so fun &#8212; parents didn&#8217;t think so because apparently it spreads the weeds far and wide. Oh, well!<\/p>\n<p>I do like to think of the fact that those seeds would fly on the wind. In a way, each of those little seeds are like prayers. We make wishes sometimes when we make those prayers. Imagine just the number of prayers that are said in a church at the same time. Can you picture those prayers as seeds, growing the faith of the one offering the prayer, changing lives and hearts along the way?<\/p>\n<p>This spring when you find one of these little weeds, pick one up, make a wish or say a prayer and let it go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite things to do when I was little at my grandparents&#8217; house was pick these little weeds and make a wish as I blew the seeds apart. I thought it was so fun &#8212; parents didn&#8217;t think so because apparently it spreads the weeds far and wide. Oh, well! 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