{"id":84,"date":"2015-07-20T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/?p=84"},"modified":"2015-07-11T21:07:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T02:07:58","slug":"faith-in-the-gaps-of-lilly-pads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2015\/07\/faith-in-the-gaps-of-lilly-pads.html","title":{"rendered":"Faith in the gaps of Lilly Pads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/files\/2015\/04\/Leaping-Lillies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  alignright wp-image-104\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/388\/2015\/04\/Leaping-Lillies-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Leaping Lillies\" width=\"329\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems that sometimes in life there are many stepping stones that happen to be so close to each other it feels like a seamless stream of knowing where you are going.\u00a0Other times it feels like the gap between those stepping stones are so spread out you will fall in between.<\/p>\n<p>What do you do in the gap between stones? Do you reach out for help? It&#8217;s hard sometime to admit you need help, then sometimes it can be hard to find it when you need it.<\/p>\n<p>Yet there is one stone that will always be there for us. God will always provide the next step. We just have to learn to trust our feet in the gaps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that sometimes in life there are many stepping stones that happen to be so close to each other it feels like a seamless stream of knowing where you are going.\u00a0Other times it feels like the gap between those stepping stones are so spread out you will fall in between. 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