Wednesday, March 12, 2008

• Asking for Prayer

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  No, it's nothing serious, but I'd like some prayer anyway .
  
  The Lord has really placed it in my heart to be at home. It's been something that's been bugging me for some time, but I always pushed it away. I'm not saying I want to become a mother yet (no one get their hopes up) but I just feel the STRONG urge to be a homemaker and housewife.
  
  I actually want to mop my floors and clean the bathrooms and make our home a sanctuary for the both of us. My main gift is the gift of hospitality and it sucks that I never have people over because I'm too tired to entertain, or my house is a mess because I've been busy all week long. I really have been doing better with keeping the clutter down, but my home is still not up to the standards that I'm used to (thanks to the standards I was raised with!!!). I am also DYING to get my home organized, but on my weekends, I'm so busy doing stuff to catch up from the week that I don't have time to do anything else. It really gets frustrating after awhile.
  
  I finally sat Eric down the other night and just spilled to him what my desires are. He knew I wanted to be at home, but he never knew how much until now. Of course, I never told him before now. I was still figuring out what *I* wanted to do with my life. I really never sat still and prayed it over to the one who ordained my life before. Once I did that, it was pretty clear what my calling is. I'm still praying on the kid issue.
  
  Anywho, last night, Eric and I (well I did it, but I kept Eric in the loop) crunched some numbers to see if we could make it on one income. Truth is, we can't. At all. I played around and discovered we could live tightly on half my income. It would be hard, but we could do it. I prayed over our budget and just gave it to God. He knows my heart and He knows what's best for me, so I trust Him to take care of our finances (it's kinda a no brainer). I talked things over with Eric and while I won't work part time yet, we are going to live as though we only have half my income.
  
  What we are wanting to do is taking half of my income and put it towards our car. If we are diligent with that, we can get our car paid off in about a year (which if we kept making the same payments we do now, it would take 3 or 4 years to get this thing paid off). Once the car is paid off, it would really help us financially and I could feasibly quit my job. Things would still be tight, but it would be possible.
  
  Let me tell you, being able to see some sort of a light at the end of the tunnel is a wonderful thing. I was really getting discouraged because I thought I would NEVER be able to quit my job. I was really working myself up into thinking I would have to work forever. Now that I can see some light, I'm ready to move to end of the tunnel as soon as possible!!!
  
  These are a few of the areas where we could use some prayer (and I'm lookin' at you BeeArr and GeeArr because I know you are our prayer warriors!)
  
  *Please pray that we can keep the faith. It's so easy to say I have faith that God will see us through this, but it's easier to let life take over and feel in unsure about our decision.
  
  *We also would like prayer that we can stay diligent with making those extra car payments. I know many fun things will come up that we will want to spend the money on, but we really need to stick with our goal.
  
  *Please pray that we can learn to say no to the fun things. I'm an otter and I love fun things, so saying no will be so hard. I hate saying no, but I need to think of the greater prize.
  
  *Pray that I can really learn to live a frugal lifestyle. I have started clipping coupons and shopping ads, but I know there is much more I can learn. I love to shop, so I will also have to say no to the fun things Target has in their store.
  
  I guess I'm just really excited to see what is in store for us! I know God is faithful and I need to focus on that through this next year.
  
  Thanks for the prayers. I am so glad I have many wonderful Christian people in my life who care enough to pray for us.
  
  Oh, and if you care, I'm still working on  "what does it mean Wednesday". I just can't think of a song at the moment.
  
  

  
  

  
  

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