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Today I’m guest posting over at Mummy From The Heart<\/a>, my lovely friend Mich’s blog, on why I’m still a Christian despite the suffering I see all around me and experience in my life. Thanks Mich for the opportunity. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Today I’m guest posting over at Mummy From The Heart, my lovely friend Mich’s blog, on why I’m still a Christian despite the suffering I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8T2j8-h","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22,"url":"https:\/\/greatadventure.carterclan.me.uk\/?p=22","url_meta":{"origin":17,"position":0},"title":"Yet Another SF and Suffering Blogpost.","author":"liz","date":"February 11, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I know, I know, there are thousands floating round the internet. 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