{"id":12815,"date":"2026-05-17T21:04:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T21:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/?page_id=12815"},"modified":"2026-05-17T21:07:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T21:07:50","slug":"with-or-without-2-sunday-may-24-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/with-or-without-2-sunday-may-24-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"With Or Without (2) &#8211; Sunday, May 24, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen \u2013<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> <strong>Hebrews 11:1<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Have I lost my mind<br \/>\nMoving forward without a sign<br \/>\nThinking\u00a0I\u2019ve\u00a0been invited<br \/>\nTo be fearfully excited<br \/>\nOn a path not fully clear<br \/>\nYet trusting that God is near<\/p>\n<p>I now know that faith is this<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s to hope your plan is His<\/p>\n<p>The opening poem was composed as I pondered faith and its application when pursuing something that ignites both fear and excitement.\u00a0 It&#8217;s exploring Hebrews 11:1: \u201cthe evidence of things not seen.\u201d This includes not having received confirmation before starting a journey, and the reference to \u201cthings hoped for\u201d is about trusting that along the way, God will make it known His approval.<\/p>\n<p>While it would be wonderful to be given proof that you&#8217;re on the right path, this isn\u2019t always the case. Oftentimes, faith means moving forward with or without confirmation, even when you feel fearfully excited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen \u2013 Hebrews 11:1 Have I lost my mind Moving forward without a sign Thinking\u00a0I\u2019ve\u00a0been invited To be fearfully excited On a path not fully clear Yet trusting that God is near I now know that faith is this It&#8217;s to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/with-or-without-2-sunday-may-24-2026\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;With Or Without (2) &#8211; Sunday, May 24, 2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12815","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12818,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12815\/revisions\/12818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}