{"id":625,"date":"2016-07-11T05:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/?p=625"},"modified":"2016-06-27T21:19:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T02:19:46","slug":"open-to-possibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2016\/07\/open-to-possibilities.html","title":{"rendered":"Open to possibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a million possibilities in this world, and a million connections between people that we can hardly understand sometimes. I&#8217;ve learned in moving to a new city for close to a year that there world gets smaller every day! People I have met only recently know people that I&#8217;ve known for years.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/files\/2016\/06\/DSCN1015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-618 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/388\/2016\/06\/DSCN1015-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN1015\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think sometimes we might fear the availability of the possibilities. Sometimes it&#8217;s easier to be content with the few possibilities we know we have.<\/p>\n<p>This summer, take an opportunity to open yourself to all options you have. Find the possibilities for faith experiences and see what moves you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a million possibilities in this world, and a million connections between people that we can hardly understand sometimes. 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