The Greenroom

From my wife

If you know me
or Tim personally, you’ve probably heard us talk about our major
financial goal. It’s pretty short and sweet:

Get 100% out of debt as fast as humanly possible.

We don’t just mean consumer debt. We mean everything. Mortgage and all. NO DEBT.

We dump every extra penny into the mortgage, and for the first 7 or
8 months of our marriage, we were really on track. But then we suddenly
had some rather large “unexpected” debts come up. I
won’t go into any details, but let’s just say it
wasn’t pocket change. Despite have a good bit in savings, we
weren’t really sure how we were going to pay it all, and we even
considered taking out a loan to cover everything, something neither of
us wanted to do. And then on top of it all, my car died.

We both prayed about it a lot, I worried myself to death about it
all wondering how we were going to pay everything off and buy a new
(used) car. When we took my car to the shop, they were able to get it
running for less than $200, and they said we could make it last for
maybe another year if we took care of it. Then somehow, in just
over one month, we got some extra money (that we don’t owe
anyone) and we were able to pay off everything.

It is really amazing and a just another reminder that I need to calm down and trust God.

God keeps telling me that, but He also knows that I have a very thick skull.