{"id":748,"date":"2016-12-05T05:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/?p=748"},"modified":"2016-12-01T06:56:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T12:56:27","slug":"venting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2016\/12\/venting.html","title":{"rendered":"Venting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/files\/2016\/11\/IMG_6283-e1479686034376.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-737\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/388\/2016\/11\/IMG_6283-e1479686034376-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6283\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Sometimes it helps to vent our frustrations with something. It can feel refreshing and freeing after the venting has been done. But I think it&#8217;s more about the people being there to listen. We need someone to vent towards, to hear our frustrations. We need the companionship that says we will be okay.<\/p>\n<p>Who is it in your life that you can vent to and feel better? Are you the one they come to when they need to vent?<\/p>\n<p>This week, think about those people in your life and pay attention when they need to vent and return the favor sometime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it helps to vent our frustrations with something. It can feel refreshing and freeing after the venting has been done. But I think it&#8217;s more about the people being there to listen. We need someone to vent towards, to hear our frustrations. We need the companionship that says we will be okay. Who is&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-748","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>Venting - 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\/12\/venting.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Venting - Through the Lens of Faith\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sometimes it helps to vent our frustrations with something. 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