My Dear Children,
I think of you often and pray for you every day. I encourage you to make a habit of praying every day. This is an important part of our Christian walk.
I also want to remind you God is still in control in these uncertain times. Do not live in fear. Keep your spiritual eyes on Jesus and you will have peace in your heart and mind. Don’t allow other people to stir up your mind and emotions and rob you of peace. Stay away from those that bring dissension and bring peace and healing wherever you can. You will be pleasing to God.
Dear children, be good listeners. It seems like some folks do not learn much because they never learn to listen and even when they do they are so easily distracted. If you want to get to know someone well you must listen to them. You learn more by listening then you do by talking. One of the interesting things I have found is that if you can get someone to talk that never talks much they have some very interesting things to say. On the other hand if we talk to much it drives some folks away. May God give you the wisdom of when to talk and when to remain silent?
Many years ago in the early years of our marriage, Pauline and I went through some very difficult years. We did not have a lot of money and there were a lot of things we wanted. Everything we wanted cost money and as a result we used credit and our debt just got bigger and bigger. It became a terrible burden that was hard to bear and very hard on our relationship. Some of the things we bought, we really did not need and didn’t even use once we had it. I think the bible calls it (Lust of the eyes), some people call it (keeping up with the neighbors).
I reached a point when I just wanted to sell my house, go out west somewhere and never come back! I could not sell my house! I put out signs for sale; put it in realtor’s hands, no one would even look at the house. I tried this for several years and never had an offer on the house. I had to face the fact God was not going to let me run away. We stopped buying and started paying debts. After several years the dept was gone and we had become better stewards of our money. The holes were gone from our money bags what a relief, the burden of debt was gone. And don’t forget, dept is a burden that is relentless. I just thought of an old song “Change your reckless way of living.” Overspending is a reckless way of living that catches up with you after a while.
Dear loved ones, I know it is hard to learn from someone else’s experience. I hope your experience with dept will not be as difficult as mine was. It almost destroyed our marriage.
I hope and pray that sharing some of our life with you will make your life a little better and that we had our share of struggles even as you do. I guess that is all for now. Keep pressing on. Don’t forget to go to Jesus and the Holy Spirit for help, they have helped me so many time in my life.
All my love and prayers,
Your loving Father