wealth, dave ramsey, and the pukes

Kim bailed on the Financial Peace University class tonight.  It was the night we were supposed to have our first run at our budget ready.  I’m not saying that she got cold feet and chickened out.  She had the pukes.

Yep, we were planning to work on the budget today.  They say that most of the disputes/arguments in a marriage center around money, so we were prepared for a little disagreement.  But last night after HSM, Kim started tossing her cookies.  That’s not good.  She was up most of the night making the trip to kneel before the porcelain throne, praying for relief.  I always feel better after a good puke; Kim must have felt great, cause she puked a lot.

We got our budget work done anyway.  She soldiered on, and we were able to make some good progress on our plan for financial peace.  She’s pretty awesome, that wife o’mine.

Interestingly enough, as I read today’s scriptures (according to the Life Journal reading plan we talked about at Calvary this weekend!) I stumbled across this promise:

You will have such a surplus of crops that you will need to clear out the old grain to make room for the new harvest!  Leviticus 26:10

Dave Ramsey talks about accumulating wealth, but from a Christian perspective.  I don’t believe that God wants us to be rich for our own sake.  I’m not a health and wealth, prosperity gospel kind of guy.  However, I do believe that God wants to bless us, to make us prosperous so that we have plenty to give away, to bless others.

Kim and I don’t have a lot of wiggle room in our budget right now.  We’ve not been wise in the saving/spending department.  But we’re taking charge of our finances, setting some goals, developing a plan.  I am hoping/dreaming of the day when we have zero debt, lots of financial freedom, and less stress.

But we’re firmly committed to being generous now!  We aren’t going to wait until it’s easy to give our money to worthy causes.  We’re going to sacrifice and buckle down so that we can be generous now.

Our mistakes and failure to plan do not disqualify us from participating in the plan of God.  We’ve just got to figure out how we can say no to some things that we might want in the short term so that we can say yes to God!