{"id":123,"date":"2010-04-13T01:51:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T01:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myfinancialfocus.net\/mainsite\/?p=123"},"modified":"2025-08-24T06:39:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T10:39:18","slug":"loving-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myfinancialfocus.net\/mainsite\/index.php\/loving-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Loving Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon I will be attending the funeral of a man who I never met.\u00a0 In fact, I am not sure I ever saw him.\u00a0 However, his wife, daughter and son-in-law are friends of mine and our family.<\/p>\n<p>This past weekend another tragedy.\u00a0 A couple who used to attend our church were involved in a car accident.\u00a0 She died in the accident and left her husband and three young daughters.<\/p>\n<p>If that was not enough, a neighbor took her life this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Wow!\u00a0 What a tragic weekend.<\/p>\n<p>All of those, and especially after visiting the funeral home last night, have made me to happily say again \u2013 I love life.\u00a0 I really do.\u00a0 There are always challenges and \u201copportunities\u201d, things that don\u2019t go our way and things that disappoint us, but \u2013 I love life.<\/p>\n<p>I love being with my wife and children.\u00a0 I like being with our friends.\u00a0 I like what God has given us including each day.\u00a0 I love life.<\/p>\n<p>You might ask what this has to do with finances.\u00a0 It really has a great deal to do with finances.\u00a0 I meet people regularly who are done on life and the circumstances that, more often than not, they have got themselves into.\u00a0 Their outlook on life gets down sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of whatever you may be going through, it won\u2019t last forever.\u00a0 Endure it, work through it, fix it and love life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon I will be attending the funeral of a man who I never met.\u00a0 In fact, I am not sure I ever saw him.\u00a0 However, his wife, daughter and son-in-law are friends of mine and our family. 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