{"id":581,"date":"2016-06-01T05:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T10:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/?p=581"},"modified":"2016-05-31T10:18:57","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T15:18:57","slug":"coming-out-of-our-shells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2016\/06\/coming-out-of-our-shells.html","title":{"rendered":"Coming out of our shells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s summer. It&#8217;s time to come out of our shells. Yet sometimes it can feel safer and easier to stay in or shells. I&#8217;ve always been a person who loves adventure and moving and seeing new things. But I also have<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_3151-e1462134183854.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-557 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/388\/2016\/05\/IMG_3151-e1462134183854-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3151\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> learned that sometimes the process is slower than I like.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we need to take lessons from a tortoise, who comes out of his shell, but always perseveres.<\/p>\n<p>What slow changes do you anticipate this summer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s summer. It&#8217;s time to come out of our shells. Yet sometimes it can feel safer and easier to stay in or shells. I&#8217;ve always been a person who loves adventure and moving and seeing new things. But I also have learned that sometimes the process is slower than I like. 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