Open Ended Letter...

Dear Arkansas Rural Endowment Fund,
Please jump in a creek. I continue to find dealing with you to be a real pain in the rear.  Today I received the first statement from you in months.  It came on the same day as a a nasty gram stating I wasn't paying my bills.  How do you expect me to pay a bill when you don't send it to me until it is passed due?  You are absolutely ridiculous.   I can't wait to pay you off so you can torture someone else.
Thats all.

lacking

If you are one of the 5 people who reads my blog you are probably expecting something witty, funny, or intelligent.  
Well this has been a week of extreme frustration, confusion and bitterness so I am  lacking in the humor department.  So instead I will only post something I read today that made me feel a little bit better.  




"You may be experiencing disappointment, frustration, or anger but you always have a choice. The only real healing and comfort you’re going to get is by looking to the Lord and trusting Him with your situation, painful as it is."




So there you have it.  Sorry for the lack of wit.  Come back next week.  I'll think of something funny or at least look up a knock knock joke. 

I'm not just lucky I'm blessed....

"I am not wealthy enough..."

Did you know?

• If you make more than $2 a day you are among the top income earners on the planet
• If you own a car, you are among the 3% in the world who do.
• If you earn $37,000 a year you are in the top 4% of the wealthiest people in the world.
• If you make $45,000 a year you are in the top 1% of the wealthiest people in the world.

Finances seem to be a topic that have been haunting me lately.  There have been alot of tough decisions D & I have been struggling with in this area.  It is easy to get discouraged.  We live in one of the richest states in the US.  I am consistantly sorrounded by other peoples material wealth and truthfully I get jealous.  I don't drive a new BMW, I don't own a house, and my furniture doesn't match.  My prayers over this part of my life had begun to get frantic. 

Sunday at church the message was life altering.  I don't usually make such a bold statement but it was truly an answer to my prayers.  The whole message was about giving.  The statement was made that we to often think "I'm not wealthy enough to give".   I very quickly realized that I needed a paradim shift.  I not only own a car, I have 2 cars.  I make way more than $2 a day. By worldly standards I am one of the wealthiest people in the world. 

All the sudden I am very calm.  So what if we need to sell one of our cars?  We still have one.  So what if my furniture doesn't match.  So what if we had to cut back on our cable.  I don't know the numbers on cable but I bet the starving kids in Africa don't have 250 channels.   I am blessed to have these kinds of problems.  These are rich people problems.