{"id":631,"date":"2016-07-18T05:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/?p=631"},"modified":"2016-07-01T17:29:54","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T22:29:54","slug":"surrounded-by-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2016\/07\/surrounded-by-support.html","title":{"rendered":"Surrounded by support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every day we are surrounded by people who influence our lives. These people offer us love and support that sometimes see<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/files\/2016\/06\/DSCN1004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-616 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/388\/2016\/06\/DSCN1004-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN1004\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>ms hard to accept or understand. It&#8217;s because of these people we can walk through another day, even when the lights are down inside us.<\/p>\n<p>Being surrounded by such people is a gift that we need to recognize and acknowledge. We need to try and offer the same support back to those people and offer them gratitude for their support in our lives.<\/p>\n<p>Who are the people that surround you with support? Has there been a time you&#8217;ve taken that for granted? Take your support person out for a coffee or something in the near future and say thank you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day we are surrounded by people who influence our lives. These people offer us love and support that sometimes seems hard to accept or understand. It&#8217;s because of these people we can walk through another day, even when the lights are down inside us. Being surrounded by such people is a gift that we&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-631","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>Surrounded by support - 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\/07\/surrounded-by-support.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Surrounded by support - Through the Lens of Faith\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Every day we are surrounded by people who influence our lives. 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