{"id":691,"date":"2016-09-19T05:59:09","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T10:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/?p=691"},"modified":"2016-09-19T05:59:09","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T10:59:09","slug":"spokes-wheel-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2016\/09\/spokes-wheel-faith.html","title":{"rendered":"Spokes on the wheel of faith"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1736\"<\/a>Our faith life seems to go in circles sometimes. You can feel as if, on this wheel, you are on one of the spokes going up and up. Then suddenly the spokes are moving in a downward direction. When the downward direction comes, it is so important to remember that you’ve already made at least one, if not many, trips around this wheel of faith.<\/p>\n

The wheel spoke will once again rise and you will be riding high. On the next ride, think of all the blessings you’ve seen on all sides of the wheel of faith. It can be an enlightening experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our faith life seems to go in circles sometimes. You can feel as if, on this wheel, you are on one of the spokes going up and up. Then suddenly the spokes are moving in a downward direction. When the downward direction comes, it is so important to remember that you’ve already made at least…<\/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-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nSpokes on the wheel of 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\/09\/spokes-wheel-faith.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spokes on the wheel of faith - Through the Lens of Faith\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Our faith life seems to go in circles sometimes. You can feel as if, on this wheel, you are on one of the spokes going up and up. Then suddenly the spokes are moving in a downward direction. When the downward direction comes, it is so important to remember that you’ve already made at least…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2016\/09\/spokes-wheel-faith.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Through the Lens of Faith\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-09-19T10:59:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/files\/2016\/09\/1736-225x300.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"eelliott\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Spokes on the wheel of faith - Through the Lens of Faith","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2016\/09\/spokes-wheel-faith.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Spokes on the wheel of faith - Through the Lens of Faith","og_description":"Our faith life seems to go in circles sometimes. You can feel as if, on this wheel, you are on one of the spokes going up and up. Then suddenly the spokes are moving in a downward direction. When the downward direction comes, it is so important to remember that you’ve already made at least…","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2016\/09\/spokes-wheel-faith.html","og_site_name":"Through the Lens of Faith","article_published_time":"2016-09-19T10:59:09+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/files\/2016\/09\/1736-225x300.jpg"}],"author":"eelliott","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2016\/09\/spokes-wheel-faith.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2016\/09\/spokes-wheel-faith.html","name":"Spokes on the wheel of faith - Through the Lens of Faith","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2016\/09\/spokes-wheel-faith.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2016\/09\/spokes-wheel-faith.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/files\/2016\/09\/1736-225x300.jpg","datePublished":"2016-09-19T10:59:09+00:00","dateModified":"2016-09-19T10:59:09+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/#\/schema\/person\/3a91f7335d342e05f30c3f30934c63b2"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2016\/09\/spokes-wheel-faith.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2016\/09\/spokes-wheel-faith.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2016\/09\/spokes-wheel-faith.html#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/files\/2016\/09\/1736-225x300.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/files\/2016\/09\/1736-225x300.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2016\/09\/spokes-wheel-faith.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Spokes on the wheel of faith"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/","name":"Through the Lens of Faith","description":"Beliefnet Voices - Elizabeth Elliott","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/#\/schema\/person\/3a91f7335d342e05f30c3f30934c63b2","name":"eelliott","description":"Elizabeth Elliott is a staff writer at the Arlington Catholic Herald and a freelance writer. She majored in music and journalism at Creighton University. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Creighton University. For over 20 years she has played flute for church-related events. She has written for America Magazine, Busted Halo and several other publications.","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/author\/eelliott"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/591"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}