{"id":833,"date":"2017-02-06T05:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/?p=833"},"modified":"2017-01-22T18:38:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T00:38:03","slug":"stepping-up-and-out-in-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2017\/02\/stepping-up-and-out-in-faith.html","title":{"rendered":"Stepping up and out in faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How has your spiritual life grown in the first month of the new year? Are you seeing change by leaps and bounds? Are you seeing more subtle changes?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps you are slowly going through a transformation. It&#8221;s perfectly fine. Sometimes it&#8217;s more important to take our time and take each step as it is presented.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/files\/2017\/01\/IMG_0099-e1485118682361.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-828 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/388\/2017\/01\/IMG_0099-e1485118682361-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0099\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Children learn to walk step by step. Thy don&#8217;t automatically know how to reach their destination across the room as quickly as they may want.<\/p>\n<p>In our spiritual lives, sometimes it takes more time on each step than we prefer. Yet, each step up gives us a strong foundation and can help us when we feel we might be falling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How has your spiritual life grown in the first month of the new year? Are you seeing change by leaps and bounds? 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