This week when I was paying for something with a credit card, a convenience fee popped up (my first thought was…the cashier didn’t tell me there would be a fee). I’d prefer knowing that up front.<\/p>\n
Later that day, I wanted to get fuel for my ride (I had enough, but don’t like hitting one-fourth…just to be safe!). I stopped at a gas station and filled up.<\/p>\n
Not even seven minutes later, while at a stop light, I saw another gas station with fuel prices ten cents less<\/em> than what I had just paid! This one wasn’t next to the highway though like the one where I’d filled up – ah, convenience fee!<\/p>\n I started thinking, how many decisions per day are we making based on convenience? Do we make most (or all) of our decisions solely from a place of convenience? If so, how has that played out, long term?<\/p>\n Does it matter if the decisions are “major” or not when thinking through convenience\/s?<\/p>\n Does it help to first make a pros\/cons list, meditate, pray, speak to a few wise ones we know, seek professional guidance? What is convenience costing us (financially, spiritually, emotionally, mentally, physically)?<\/p>\n Common Day Hero:<\/strong><\/em><\/span> You were kind and loving during a time when I felt so unseen. I can’t begin to express my gratitude. Want you to know that your love touched\/touches many. Earnestine, I dedicate this post to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week when I was paying for something with a credit card, a convenience fee popped up (my first thought was…the cashier didn’t tell me there would be a fee). I’d prefer knowing that up front. Later that day, I wanted to get fuel for my ride (I had enough, but don’t like hitting one-fourth…just…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[257,255,259,258,15,260,254,253],"class_list":["post-3440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-conoco","tag-convenience","tag-cost","tag-decisions","tag-heart","tag-makingdecisions","tag-quiktrip","tag-racetrac"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lalijean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/eduardo-soares-NRP0iTFLzPk-unsplash.jpg?fit=1920%2C2400&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3440"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3466,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions\/3466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}