{"id":253,"date":"2020-05-18T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/?p=253"},"modified":"2020-05-15T08:33:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T12:33:53","slug":"what-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"What Lens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What lens are you looking through\u2026a worldview based on your\nexperiences, how you connect the dots, that smorgasbord of frames of references\nwhich points in many directions reflected through the facets of your life? Or\nis it more psychological, more pragmatic with a certain strategy and some\nreason and logic, calculated and goal oriented, schedule driven to desired\nresults? How about more spiritual, relying on the right motivation, doing the\nright thing and being a good person, loving the world for all its beauty and\nhelping out where you can? Or do you have your eye on the divine, dare I say,\nrealizing freedom is being free from the freedom of choice, willfully\nsurrendering to the greatest power and purpose in the universe, seeking, doing\nand at those moments of true inspiration being God\u2019s will. Accepting the\nPresence of the Lord as authentic, more meaningful than any worldly experience\nand allowing those cherished gifts given as charisms or through scripture or\nthe doctrine of the Church to plot your course and guide your actions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What lens are you looking through\u2026a worldview based on your experiences, how you connect the dots, that smorgasbord of frames of references which points in many directions reflected through the facets of your life? Or is it more psychological, more pragmatic with a certain strategy and some reason and logic, calculated and goal oriented, schedule [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-catholic-spirituality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}