{"id":17,"date":"2011-12-12T02:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T02:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familydill.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/12\/what-is-faith\/"},"modified":"2012-04-13T02:08:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T02:08:53","slug":"what-is-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familydill.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/12\/what-is-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"What is faith?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is faith? How would you define it? Faith in my mind is believing without seeing. I can&#8217;t see the air, but I know it&#8217;s there.  I can&#8217;t see God, but yet I believe in his existence.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t always agree with his path for me. In fact, I&#8217;m heading into one now. It seem dark and lonely. I&#8217;m hoping there&#8217;s a good reason for all of it. <\/p>\n<p>Why is it when everything seems to be going well, it changes? sometimes for the good, but mostly the change is not so good. It ends up working its self out, just not how not how I might expect it or wanted.<\/p>\n<p>So faith is trusting that there is a great plan for the future, and for my eternal soul. It&#8217;s the waiting that makes it so hard.<\/p>\n<p>So God you know I wrote this, so help me find the right path. Please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is faith? How would you define it? Faith in my mind is believing without seeing. I can&#8217;t see the air, but I know it&#8217;s there. I can&#8217;t see God, but yet I believe in his existence. 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