{"id":888,"date":"2017-03-06T05:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/?p=888"},"modified":"2017-02-12T16:56:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T22:56:42","slug":"shining-your-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2017\/03\/shining-your-light.html","title":{"rendered":"Shining your light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/files\/2017\/02\/IMG_0106-e1486932465148.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-877\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/388\/2017\/02\/IMG_0106-e1486932465148-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0106\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>We are all so unique. God made us all different and that is such a gift. What would this life be like if we were all the same?<\/p>\n<p>We can each shine our light on the world. Yet we each have a light that is unique to us. The shapes that are lit on the side of this building are not the same as the ones we will provide.<\/p>\n<p>Having a different light can give us a different perspective that may help us find an answer that we are searching for and wouldn&#8217;t have found otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Are there places in your life that you need light more than ever? Do you know people around you who need the light? Maybe you can work together to bring light to each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are all so unique. God made us all different and that is such a gift. What would this life be like if we were all the same? We can each shine our light on the world. Yet we each have a light that is unique to us. The shapes that are lit on the&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-888","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>Shining your light - 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\/2017\/03\/shining-your-light.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shining your light - Through the Lens of Faith\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We are all so unique. 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