{"id":951,"date":"2017-05-17T05:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/?p=951"},"modified":"2017-05-15T21:15:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T02:15:02","slug":"hitting-a-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2017\/05\/hitting-a-wall.html","title":{"rendered":"Hitting a wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever feel like you&#8217;ve hit an impasse or a brick wall in your faith life?\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/files\/2017\/02\/IMG_0108.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-875\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/388\/2017\/02\/IMG_0108-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0108\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Does everything feel\u00a0like the same old, same old? Sometimes things can get stale in our faith life. We can become too set in our ways. We might find ourselves frustrated by this and feel like we are not making any progress past this brick wall.<\/p>\n<p>We are making progress, though. We may not see it, but God sees us trying. God sees our frustration and guides us through that wall so that it will almost seem transparent to God.<\/p>\n<p>What do you do when you feel like you have hit a wall? One suggestion is to take a look back at where you&#8217;ve been, gather the tools that were helpful getting to that point, reevaluate and try to find a foothold. If faith can move mountains, it can surely move a wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever feel like you&#8217;ve hit an impasse or a brick wall in your faith life?\u00a0 Does everything feel\u00a0like the same old, same old? Sometimes things can get stale in our faith life. We can become too set in our ways. 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