{"id":788,"date":"2016-12-26T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/?p=788"},"modified":"2016-12-05T19:52:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T01:52:54","slug":"faith-deep-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2016\/12\/faith-deep-blue.html","title":{"rendered":"Faith in the deep blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the day after Christmas. Many are still spending time with family and friends. It&#8217;s a time to consider <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/files\/2016\/11\/IMG_6832.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-768 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/388\/2016\/11\/IMG_6832-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6832\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>the grateful hearts in each of us.<\/p>\n<p>Christmas is a great time to renew our faith. We know how the story starts and can imagine the rest as the year moves on to different seasons and holidays.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also a time to be gentle with ourselves. Holidays for some mean more stress than for others. Tensions can run high when family gets together for more than brief moments.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to return to the deep well of faith within.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the day after Christmas. Many are still spending time with family and friends. 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We know how the story starts and can imagine the rest as the year moves on to different seasons and&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-788","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>Faith in the deep blue - 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\/faith-deep-blue.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Faith in the deep blue - Through the Lens of Faith\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It&#8217;s the day after Christmas. 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