{"id":723,"date":"2016-10-17T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/?p=723"},"modified":"2016-10-08T12:41:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T17:41:51","slug":"crawling-to-our-destination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2016\/10\/crawling-to-our-destination.html","title":{"rendered":"Crawling to our destination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/files\/2016\/10\/IMG_5690.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-719\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/388\/2016\/10\/IMG_5690-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5690\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Do you ever feel as if life is moving at a snail&#8217;s pace, or perhaps the rate of transformation of a caterpillar?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s so hard to be patient. Especially in our faith. I know in my life I have wanted to be so much further along in my faith life than I perceive I am. I feel like I should be past my mistakes and fears and everything else.<\/p>\n<p>But I think it&#8217;s important to remember that we all started life unable even to crawl. We eventually gained the skills to crawl, slowly, and made our way to walking and running.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe in our faith we can remember to crawl first before wanting to run to the goal line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever feel as if life is moving at a snail&#8217;s pace, or perhaps the rate of transformation of a caterpillar? It&#8217;s so hard to be patient. Especially in our faith. I know in my life I have wanted to be so much further along in my faith life than I perceive I am.&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-723","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>Crawling to our destination - 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\/crawling-to-our-destination.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Crawling to our destination - Through the Lens of Faith\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Do you ever feel as if life is moving at a snail&#8217;s pace, or perhaps the rate of transformation of a caterpillar? 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