{"id":186,"date":"2008-03-25T11:04:48","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T17:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/?p=186"},"modified":"2008-03-25T11:04:48","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T17:04:48","slug":"some-thoughts-for-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/some-thoughts-for-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Thoughts for the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two thoughts from today have been going through my mind over and over.\u00c2\u00a0 The first is from a meeting I had with our Pastor.\u00c2\u00a0 He said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Life&#8217;s too short for mediocrity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good to remember and very challenging, isn&#8217;t it?\u00c2\u00a0 Is God satisfied with mediocrity in our lives?\u00c2\u00a0 Read <a title=\"Bible Gateway | Revelation 3:15-17\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?book_id=73&amp;chapter=3&amp;verse=15&amp;end_verse=17&amp;version=31&amp;context=context\">Revelation 3:15-17<\/a> (and the rest of the Bible for that matter) to find out the answer to that question.<\/p>\n<p>As I was editing an article on finances for a newsletter that goes out monthly, I read this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(speaking of the precision needed for Apollo 13&#8217;s last burn to make it back to Earth) He asked what the degree of error was that they were working with to which they answered two degrees.\u00c2\u00a0 He further explained that, at only a two degree difference, they would miss the earth by 120 miles by the time they landed.\u00c2\u00a0 You might be asking what this story has to do with marriage and money?\u00c2\u00a0 We have all been taught different ways of managing our money and have developed different spending habits.\u00c2\u00a0 When we first get married, we may only be two degrees different from our spouse in the way we think, however, five, fifteen or twenty years later we are 120 miles apart in how we think and act in regards to our finances.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow!\u00c2\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t that true of every area of our marriage as well?\u00c2\u00a0 If you do not prepare properly and think things like, &#8220;Well, we disagree slightly on this one thing but it&#8217;s no big deal,&#8221; it could be a <strong>huge <\/strong>deal in the long run.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 5px 5px 0;float:left;height:50px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/some-thoughts-for-the-day\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"595\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two thoughts from today have been going through my mind over and over.\u00c2\u00a0 The first is from a meeting I had with our Pastor.\u00c2\u00a0 He said: Life&#8217;s too short for mediocrity. Good to remember and very challenging, isn&#8217;t it?\u00c2\u00a0 Is God satisfied with mediocrity in our lives?\u00c2\u00a0 Read Revelation 3:15-17 (and the rest of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}