{"id":12797,"date":"2026-05-17T19:16:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T19:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/?page_id=12797"},"modified":"2026-05-17T19:20:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T19:20:59","slug":"layers-2-wednesday-may-20-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/layers-2-wednesday-may-20-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Layers (2) &#8211; Wednesday, May 20, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The works of the\u00a0Lord\u00a0are great, sought out of\u00a0all\u00a0them that have pleasure\u00a0therein\u00a0\u2013 <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Psalm 111:2<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>My otherwise favorable run had hit a roadblock as I stood in line at the grocery store\u2019s customer service counter during the resolution of another individual\u2019s dispute. My lengthy wait to exchange several smaller denominations for a $50 to give as a gift was futile, since the store no longer carried larger bills. Disappointed and frustrated, I turned and encountered a woman who desired smaller bills for her $50. Minutes later, I walked out of the store, grateful to have witnessed divine intervention.<\/p>\n<p><em>Her\u00a0need\u00a0became the supply for my need.<\/em> \u00a0\u00a0This had been one of the annotations in my journal to reflect what had taken place earlier in the day. Another: <em>Waiting is the prerequisite for\u00a0ascertaining\u00a0anything worth pursuing.<\/em> These recordings served a dual purpose: to show gratitude for God\u2019s fulfillment of 2 Corinthians 8:14 and to remind me that patience when seeking to do something good will be rewarded.<\/p>\n<p>Though the situation you may be in is layered with disappointment and frustration, trust that God is working behind the scenes. Keep doing what is right, and soon you\u2019ll discover the wonderful manifestation of His handiwork in unexpected ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The works of the\u00a0Lord\u00a0are great, sought out of\u00a0all\u00a0them that have pleasure\u00a0therein\u00a0\u2013 Psalm 111:2 My otherwise favorable run had hit a roadblock as I stood in line at the grocery store\u2019s customer service counter during the resolution of another individual\u2019s dispute. My lengthy wait to exchange several smaller denominations for a $50 to give as a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/layers-2-wednesday-may-20-2026\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Layers (2) &#8211; Wednesday, May 20, 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-12797","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12797","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=12797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12800,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12797\/revisions\/12800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}