{"id":2699,"date":"2025-02-08T18:51:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T18:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/?p=2699"},"modified":"2025-02-08T19:34:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T19:34:45","slug":"faith-is-a-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/faith-is-a-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith Is a Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I used to think faith was something you either had or didn\u2019t. That some people just believed, and others didn\u2019t, as if it was a gift you were born with. But that changed when I stood at the foot of a mountain, staring up at the peak that felt too far to reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doubt crept in, a voice telling me I wasn\u2019t strong enough, that this was too much for me. But then, I remembered: faith is a choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It wasn\u2019t knowing for sure I could do it. It was choosing to believe I could, even when uncertainty weighed heavy. So I took one step. Then another. And when doubt returned, I chose faith again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Faith didn\u2019t arrive in a rush of certainty. It was a quiet decision, repeated over and over. And that made all the difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to think faith was something you either had or didn\u2019t. That some people just believed, and others didn\u2019t, as if it was a gift you were born with. But that changed when I stood at the foot of a mountain, staring up at the peak that felt too far to reach. Doubt crept [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-treks","7":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"vasudha","author_link":"https:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/author\/vasudha\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2701,"href":"https:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions\/2701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}