{"id":12751,"date":"2026-05-10T19:21:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T19:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/?page_id=12751"},"modified":"2026-05-10T19:24:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T19:24:21","slug":"overspend-it-monday-may-11-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/overspend-it-monday-may-11-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Overspend It! &#8211; Monday, May 11, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Seek\u00a0good, and not evil, that ye may\u00a0live:\u00a0and\u00a0so\u00a0the\u00a0Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken \u2013 <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Amos 5:14<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There are no guarantees<br \/>\nThat God will grant you or me<br \/>\nThe chance to have more time to talk and laugh<\/p>\n<p>So,\u00a0take every minute<br \/>\nAnd overspend it<br \/>\nMaking memories<\/p>\n<p>I heard it said that an individual\u2019s existence begins and ends with two breaths: the first (birth) and the last (death).\u00a0 \u00a0It emphasizes the importance of making each breath in between worth taking. This message is stressed in \u201cLive Like You Were Dying\u201d by Tim McGraw, when he said:\u00a0 \u201cI went skydiving\/I went Rocky Mountain\u201d upon learning of an expected diagnosis.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s the theme of \u201cMaking Memories,\u201d a song I wrote about the fragility of life and the need to take every minute and overspend it, whenever possible, by doing rewarding things.<\/p>\n<p>Mondays don\u2019t have to be humdrum. Valuable moments can be found at our workplace.\u00a0 Remembering that only God knows the time or day when life\u2014ours or those we care about\u2014is taken away makes every minute worth cherishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seek\u00a0good, and not evil, that ye may\u00a0live:\u00a0and\u00a0so\u00a0the\u00a0Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken \u2013 Amos 5:14 There are no guarantees That God will grant you or me The chance to have more time to talk and laugh So,\u00a0take every minute And overspend it Making memories I heard it said &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/overspend-it-monday-may-11-2026\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Overspend It! &#8211; Monday, May 11, 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-12751","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12751","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=12751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12754,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12751\/revisions\/12754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}