Getting out of debt

So, Justin and I have been involved in a small group on Thursday nights that is going through the Dave Ramsey Financial Fitness plan. We HIGHLY recommend it. It is amazing how on fire it can make us, but also at the same time very depressed. I'm not going to lie, we have had a few slip ups where "great deals" got he best of us, but we are beginning to be comitted to improving our financial status so that as we get older we can live a better life. I have to keep reminding myself that 25 is still young. If it were up to me, and I had available resources years ago, I would have loved to start investing when I was 16. Thanks to my wonderful parents, I do have a start, but it's still so far from where we could be. Right now we are chipping away at medical bills, and then it will be on to the credit cards, car loans, and eventually the mortgage loan! Go debt snowball!!! :c) We took a slight hit with me going down to part time, but I have discovered that the reduced stress from NOT being at work one more day a week and being able to spend time with my beautiful daughter is much more rewarding than the slightly slower pay off of bills. We are staying afloat, it's just going to take us a bit longer than we would like. We are not very patient people really.

I do want to say that we have seen first hand how God takes care of us. With all of the medical and car bills that we have accrued recently, simple things have proven a bit difficult. By God's grace we have wonderful family and friends that have really helped us out, and we have no way of thanking them enough. This time is truly a testimony to a close church family and family members that love us so much. I can't imagine our lives without these people in them. They cooked for us, brought us groceries, planted flowers in our garden while I was in the hospital!!!, and helped us out with diapers, and even fence materials!! We love them so much and are forever greatful.

Justin teaches on Willingness

Justin recently got the opportunity to give the lesson at Sunday worship two weekends ago while most of the group went to Haiti on a Mission Trip. He did a fabulous job and I am very proud of him. I think he was very nervous but you couldn't tell while he was teaching. After much thought and prayer he decided to teach on Willingness and gave many examples throughout the Bible and how being willing can indeed change lives and the world. I wish there was a way I could link his sermon to this site for you to read. I will definitely do so if I can figure it out. If you're interested in reading it, please email me and I will send it to you.