{"id":664,"date":"2014-04-28T12:35:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T17:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jenniferfitz\/?p=664"},"modified":"2015-08-25T21:16:18","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T02:16:18","slug":"trusting-god-when-life-isnt-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jenniferfitz\/2014\/04\/trusting-god-when-life-isnt-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Trusting God When Life Isn&#8217;t Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pauline.org\/portals\/0\/digital\/Trust\/index.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/windowstothesoul.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/trustingfrontcover.jpg?w=272&amp;h=300\" alt=\"TrustingFrontCover\" width=\"272\" height=\"299\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">One more bit of excitement for today: Take a look at the first issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pauline.org\/portals\/0\/digital\/Trust\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pauline Media\u2019s new and gorgeous digital magazine<strong>.\u00a0<\/strong> Current issue is entitled:<strong> <em>Trusting God When Life Isn\u2019t Easy<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em>.\u00a0 <\/em> Yes, that\u2019s my article on page 3.\u00a0 I tell the bloody finger story, which is funny, not gory, so you know you want to look.\u00a0 And it\u2019s free \u2014 other people paid to make this happen so that you don\u2019t have to.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong> Writing thing:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/windowstothesoul.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/26\/st-john-pauls-phrase-be-not-afraid-is-for-everyone\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sr. Marie Paul Curley<\/a> is not just a nice person in a stylish blue habit, she\u2019s one of my favorite editors to work with. Absolutely delightful.\u00a0 I sent her my draft, and she sent me edits that made my piece 10,000 times better. 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