{"id":709,"date":"2016-10-05T05:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/?p=709"},"modified":"2016-10-01T21:23:08","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T02:23:08","slug":"is-there-danger-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2016\/10\/is-there-danger-ahead.html","title":{"rendered":"Is there danger ahead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does it feel as if danger is lurking around every corner? It can feel like it sometimes, especially when you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/files\/2016\/09\/IMG_5422.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-703 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/388\/2016\/09\/IMG_5422-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5422\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>watch the news on a regular basis. Going to the mall has even become dangerous in some areas.<\/p>\n<p>How do you pray when you either encounter danger or are surrounded by it in the news? Do you pray for yourself or the criminals or the victims or all of the above?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to know what to do in these situations. Danger can test our faith in many ways. Are there ways you have found that help give you peace in the midst of the danger?<\/p>\n<p>Please comment below and help others find peace in the middle of a dangerous time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does it feel as if danger is lurking around every corner? It can feel like it sometimes, especially when you watch the news on a regular basis. Going to the mall has even become dangerous in some areas. How do you pray when you either encounter danger or are surrounded by it in the news?&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-709","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>Is there danger ahead? - 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\/10\/is-there-danger-ahead.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Is there danger ahead? - Through the Lens of Faith\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Does it feel as if danger is lurking around every corner? 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