{"id":185,"date":"2010-10-14T07:41:34","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T14:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/2010\/10\/14\/a-different-perspective\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T13:03:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:03:38","slug":"a-different-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/2010\/10\/14\/a-different-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"A different Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thought from Holly.<\/p>\n<p>This week my brother Michael arrived from America.\u00a0 It is great having him here and he is the first family member\u00a0we have seen in over a year.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is his first experience overseas and we have been able to process together what he is seeing and how it all fits together in God&#8217;s big plan.\u00a0 Why do some have so little while others have so much?\u00a0 How do we decide who to help and who we have to turn away when there are so many asking for help and there are\u00a0so many needs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He has been able to see some good things, like the beautiful oceans, the monkeys on our street and the friendly Tanzanian people.\u00a0 He even pointed out that the ceilings here in the houses are\u00a0really high\u00a0which gives the house a &#8220;bigger&#8221; feel and also helps with the heat.\u00a0\u00a0His perspective\u00a0has helped me to remember to thank God for all the blessings we do have here.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Most of all it is just good to have a familiar face to talk to and laugh with and share\u00a0our hearts with.\u00a0 Thanks Mike for making the trek out here and for blessing our family!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thought from Holly. This week my brother Michael arrived from America.\u00a0 It is great having him here and he is the first family member\u00a0we have seen in over a year.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is his first experience overseas and we have been able to process together what he is seeing and how it all fits together in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/2010\/10\/14\/a-different-perspective\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A different Perspective<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mission-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4287,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/4287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}