A thought about contentment from God

Here’s a good prayer for the day - although, with the direction of our economy, we may be FORCED to live this way (at least the 2nd part)! ;-)

O God, I beg two favors from you;
let me have them before I die.
8  First, help me never to tell a lie.
Second, give me neither poverty nor riches!
Give me just enough to satisfy my needs.
9  For if I grow rich, I may deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?”
And if I am too poor, I may steal and thus insult God’s holy name.


Ahh, this is certainly something that the average American (you? me?) should learn to live!

Money woe turns to money "whoa!"

“Even in darkness light dawns for the upright” states Psalm 112:4.

There is much truth in this verse and we have seen this even this week.

As we, upon deciding to return to the USA for an indefinite period of time, considered making one of our goals to get completely out of debt, we wondered what kind of a long-term goal that would be.

When we were informed this past week that our paycheck would be “cut” to about 1/4 of our supposed-to-be amount, it was a dark moment in our week - frankly, in our month!

However, in the midst of “darkness dawns light for the upright“ and that is so true for us. Through a series of strange events, we see a brighter light at the end of the long tunnel than we have ever seen in a long time.

It is possible that, with the exceptions of school loans that we have taken out for our kids, we will be debt-free within in 3-6 months! What a blessing that will be!

“Even in darkness light dawns for the upright.”