There is a really beautiful story in the Bible that I want to share with you today. It is the story of Mary and her amazing gift. John 12:3-7 says,“Then Mary took a pound of very costly oil of spikenard, anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil. But one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, who would betray Him, said, ‘Why was this fragrant oil not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?’ This he said, not that he cared …
The Power of Agreement
So what good is a budget if you are the only one using it? What if you are trying to be budget conscious and your wife keeps handing you piles of receipts from her purse? What if your husband is constantly impulse buying, and even though you would love to be out of debt, you feel like you are powerless to do anything, or you feel like a nag because you try? How do you make a budget work when you have two very different people and personalities trying to come together in their financial life? Marriage is a lot …
“I gotta little change in my pocket going jingalingaling…”
OK, so some of you may have no idea what my title is talking about. It’s the first line of a country music song, but for me it’s from the movie “Sweet Home Alabama”. But the heart of it is exactly what I want to talk about today. Do you remember the feeling of your Mom or Dad giving you pocket money that you could spend on anything you wanted? Even if it was just a dollar, you felt wealthy, like the world was full of possibilities. For me as a child, life was all about candy, so just having …
Soar With Your Strengths
One of the great things, and difficult things about being married is that you both come to the marriage with such different strengths and weaknesses. I sometimes wish that my husband were more like me, but most of the time I am really glad that he is not. My dear friend Amy and her husband have found such a great solution to their differing strengths when it comes to finances. I want to share it with you today in the hope that it might also give you some ideas to finding creative solutions to coming together in your own finances. …