Monday, June 12, 2006

Games and Lives

I was thinking the other day about how our lives are like a Game. I have been playing Runescape and thinking of the Sims. In both of the Games you have your character work on a skill like body or mining and as they progress they move to the next level. When doing this you see them from the sky view or over their shoulder. Then it hit me. God is watching us all the time. We should be working on something in our lives. That something should be getting to know God better and sharing The Good News. I know if I look at my life and it had a status bar for how much Praying, Telling others about God, and Worshiping God it would not be as high as it should be. It would probably be near the bottom.

As I look at this I am trying to think of what I can do to make it better. I have asked my dad to help keep me accountable for reading the Bible everyday. That helped for about a week or so but not at the level of commitment I know I am called to have. Now I am reading The Power of a Praying Husband. That has helped me pray more for my wife and family. I have now slowly realized that I can not wait to have someone or something help me do this. Instead I must sit down and make the commitment to God, my self and my family to draw close to God and to do His will. We make commitments all the time to work, play games , watch TV, movies or something to fill our time but have we done the simple things God asks of us first. He wants us to know Him and to be friends with Him. I know I am not there yet but as I do play the games and stuff I now think of the fact that God is watching me play and I remember He wants me to be a light before all men. As I go through the days ahead I plan to regularly check my status bars and make sure that the ones that God would prioritize are filled first.

Monday, February 13, 2006

Step 2 is Finaly Here


We just sent our last payment to the credit card co. Now we have completed step # 2. I can now see light at the end of the tunnel. Thanks to GOD! He has blessed us very much. Now we can save toward repairs and building our 3-6 months savings.

Monday, October 10, 2005

Getting out of debt

We have been working on getting out of debt for about 1 year and we are now able to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Right now it looks like we will be debt free except for the house in less than 8 months. We will have payed off about $17,000 in less than 2 years. We have been working hard and having to tell ourselves, "Not now" for a lot of wants. During that time our car quit on us and we replaced it with our savings and emergency funds. It took a while to replace the emergency fund of $1,000 and now we are back to paying off the credit card debt but it is going down. I think the best thing for us was getting on a budget and seeing where the money was going. Then we could make adjustments and go from there.

Other than the budget we are trying to get the baby steps done.
Here they are:

$1,000 to start an Emergency Fund

Pay off all debt using the Debt Snowball

Three to six months of expenses in savings

Invest 15 percent of household income into Roth IRAs and pre-tax retirement

College funding for children

Pay off home early

Build wealth and give! Invest in mutual funds and real estate

For more info go to: DaveRamsey.com or click on the title of this post.
You can listen to the archives of his show at Dave's Archives

Saturday, July 30, 2005

Stuff I found

This is going to be a list of links I have found that I think are cool.

To start it off is: http://www.howstuffworks.com/
How stuff works is what started me looking to the internet for info about anything.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/
Popular mechanics has to be my favorite magazine.

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/
Popular Science has to be #2.

This will be edited again as I find more links and just info to add.