{"id":12699,"date":"2026-04-25T21:24:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T21:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/?page_id=12699"},"modified":"2026-04-25T21:24:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T21:24:30","slug":"your-entrance-friday-may-1-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/your-entrance-friday-may-1-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Entrance &#8211; Friday, May 1, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ \u2013<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> <strong>1 Peter 1:13\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The sales figures for April weren&#8217;t what we should have had,\u201d the store manager announced. \u00a0\u201cWhich means, we&#8217;re going to start this new month off and running. Everyone who walks through those doors should see your pearly whites. And their ears should hear a warm and friendly, \u2018I\u2019m here to help you.\u2019 \u00a0I want everyone who enters this store to feel confident about spending their money here. I want them to believe that May is their month to say \u2018Yes!\u2019 in here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>How\u2019s\u00a0your entrance?<\/em> This was my question as I considered the new month, prompting me to ponder the saying about how one\u2019s entrance into a room sets the tone and its similarity to starting May. \u00a0\u00a0I was reminded that my attitude will significantly influence my experiences and that simply entering a different month doesn\u2019t secure changes.\u00a0 \u00a0If I want to see differences, then I must improve my entrance.<\/p>\n<p>The saying, \u201cNothing changes if nothing changes,\u201d applies to the start of a new month. That it will be a revolving door, unless chosen to enter differently. \u00a0So, I ask you the same question: How\u2019s your entrance?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ \u2013 1 Peter 1:13\u00a0 &#8220;The sales figures for April weren&#8217;t what we should have had,\u201d the store manager announced. \u00a0\u201cWhich means, we&#8217;re going to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/your-entrance-friday-may-1-2026\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Your Entrance &#8211; Friday, May 1, 2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12699","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12701,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12699\/revisions\/12701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}