udgets. Whether spreadsheets,
cash envelopes, budget programs, or monthly
allowance methods, we all try to obtain (or say
we do) some kind of budget some kind of organization for the few dollars that pass through our
hands that supply our families with everything
from toilet paper to tools, from groceries to
gifts.
But what happens when you don’t
have enough income to budget, when
budgeting no longer makes sense?
When you don’t have the extra 5% to put into an
emergency fund, or 10% into savings, or when
you don’t have enough to purchase the bonussize box of diapers even though it really is a better deal? Well, that’s exactly where my husband
and I have found ourselves the last 16 months.
The change was abrupt, which by no means was
an accident. When God wants your attention you
can be sure He knows how to rock your world
and bring you to your knees in an instant. My
husband had been gainfully employed by the
same company for 4 years and had already been
able to obtain a promotion that most thought
was out of his league. The pay was great, the
hours were good, and our little family of 3 ticked
right along quite self sufficiently. Which, on a side
note, I believe is where the problem started. God
doesn’t intend for us to live out our lives “self
sufficient” with little reliance on Him. He wants
us to not only need Him but to want Him as well.
In March of 2013 we had a huge wake-up when
my husband, through a sequence of unfortunate
events, lost his job. If that wasn’t enough to get
our attention God also decided to expand our
family. One month to the day of him losing his
job, I found out I was pregnant with our second
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little miracle. By “miracle” I mean just that, I had
been told on multiple occasions that a second
baby wasn’t in our future, but nothing is impossible with our God. He will go to great measures to
bring His children to Him.
With my husband looking for a new job that
would support our family and allow me to stay
home with our not ۛ HۙH