Hello Ladies,
I hope you all had a wonderful couple of weeks. I am feeling much better thank you all for your prayers. As I was going over my notes for these two chapters I thought about how much God has dealt with me and Joel over the past few years in these exact areas. God continues to amaze me everyday.
Chapter 5: Content in Relationships
As I was reading chapter 5 I thought about how often do we unintentionally hurt others? I know that most of the time we don't mean to hurt someone else and they probably do not mean to hurt us, but we allow ourselves to get caught up in the moment. Think about the hurts that you have went through, was there a way we could have avoided that hurt? On that day were you actually looking to get offended? I think about this because our attitude is a choice. We can choose have a bad day and we can choose to have a wonderful day. It is a choice we have to make everyday. Sometimes it is very hard to make that choice and we have to remind ourselves over and over and over that we chose to have a good day, but it is worth it. Making the choice to have a joyful day will not only bring peace into your life, but also to those around you. Don't let a bitter root grow inside you and eat you from the inside out. Ask God to teach you, and mold you, show you how to make the right decisions every moment.
Chapter 6: Never Enough
I love this chapter. I think about how much is enough all the time. I use to do what you call shop therapy, where when I was down on myself I would just shop shop shop. I still struggle with this, but I have cut way down. At one point in time I had all of our credit cards maxed out, when I finally realized what I was doing it was almost too late there was no way I could afford the monthly minimum payments plus how was I going to shop with no money. One day a friend told me about Dave Ramsey. I told Joel and we sat down a made a budget together and followed Dave's MyTotalMoneyMakeover plan. In two years we paid off every credit card, Dr. bills, and even our second mortgage, we also learned about tithing and was giving all while paying off our debt. God has shown me that when we put God first in everything he always provides a way. That does not mean He just gives it to us, it takes work and diligence, but if we focus on Him in all our ways things will work out just fine. People love to hear other people's testimonies about what God has done or is doing through their lives, but others are rarely willing to go through what they went through to get it. She asks us: Where is your treasure? Where is your heart? Whom do you serve? Where is your focus? I think we should ask ourselves daily about these exact things, and pray to God to search our hearts daily and reveal any hurtful way in us.
That is all for today I might think of some more this week. I pray you all have a wonderful and Blessed day.
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