The Weekend Is Over

Saturday, Amy and I headed out to get some things for around the house, because it's starting to get cool out, Autumn is approaching and there is snow at 9,000', it was really hard to go to work at night. It's my favorite season. We lounged around and just had a great day together.

Sunday, we got up pretty early for a financial class at church. One of our elders, Chip Roberts, hosts/teaches the class with some of the Disciples from church. Fortunately for Amy and I we only missed one class, but we have some catching up to do. We were supposed to come up with
a financial biography and our financial statement. I wrote mine today, and here is an excerpt:

From seventeen until I was twenty-one, I spent money like it was nothing. I bought things on my credit card, and paid it off. I never saved anything because I started dating, playing hockey, and never wanted to be at home. After moving to Colorado, this habit never stopped (why would it, it's a habit). Fortunate for me, I was able to learn I could live with $100 for groceries and gas a week. Owning multiple credit cards was never a healthy thing to do. I went $8000 in debt with them before I stopped paying the minimum payment for one and half years. At twenty-four, I hit my dry spell in my income. At twenty-five switched jobs, became a Disciple and went out to get a school loan.

It is pretty convicting when I wrote it today. I realized sitting there we are doing the right thing because we are young in our marriage, and we need to get a grip on our debt and not create any type of deficit as I had just a few years ago. I need to pray to God about what an awful steward of of what he has allowed me to oversee. I think back to the Parable of the Talents where after the master gave his talents to some men, two of them were able increase what they were to oversee and one didn't. When it came time for the master to check in on him:

"Then the man who had received the one talent came. 'Master,' he said, 'I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed. So I was afraid and went out and hid your talent in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.'
"His master replied, 'You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed? Well then, you should have put my money in deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest. Matthew 25:24-27

I feel like the one talent brother when it comes to my finances. I hope as we go through this class, we can come up with a plan that will be pleasing to God and one day he will say to us. "Well done good and faithful servant."