{"id":2035,"date":"2016-08-01T18:45:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T01:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=2035"},"modified":"2021-11-13T08:49:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T15:49:51","slug":"hope-deferred-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2035","title":{"rendered":"Hope Deferred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2328\" src=\"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u201cHope deferred makes the heart sick, But desire fulfilled is a tree of life\u201d (Proverbs 13:12).<\/p>\n<p>Wise King Solomon\u2019s words are as profound as they are simple. When we put off dreams (by choice or not), we get, well, heartsick. And dreams coming true are the stuff of fairy tales.<\/p>\n<p>Seems simple enough, but, when the principle is applied to saving and spending money, it\u2019s hard to live. You see, one spends his life deferring\u2014it\u2019s how you get an education, raise a family, build a retirement fund.<\/p>\n<p>Then, it comes time to cash in some of those assets, and, hopefully, live the dream.<\/p>\n<p>But for those who have become good at deferring, it\u2019s not so easy. How does one hit the pause button on DEFER? At first, it was hard to put money in the piggy bank. Now, it\u2019s hard to take it out.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, I\u2019ll tell you what\u2019s helping me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHope deferred makes the heart sick, But desire fulfilled is a tree of life\u201d (Proverbs 13:12). Wise King Solomon\u2019s words are as profound as they are simple. When we put off dreams (by choice or not), we get, well, heartsick. And dreams coming true are the stuff of fairy tales. Seems simple enough, but, when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2035"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2916,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions\/2916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}