Murphy Resists

We made great progress this month.  We were able to free up some funds to pay off the car and it is gone off our debt list.  Now the day we get the car title in the mail, my boss tells me I have to turn in the company truck at the end of September.  I guess Murphy is just resisting.  (Murphy’s Law – Anything that can go wrong will go wrong) In addition to this, our transmission starts acting funny and we have to sink $228 bucks to flush the transmission fluid.   If that was Murphy’s last stand, we could handle it, but no he is not done.  I went to the oral surgeon this morning for an inital consultation for getting my wisdom teeth taken out and they let me know that we are going to have to come up with $800+ because my dental insurance isn’t very good.  Did I mention our TV is going haywire?  The colors split up and we have to watch 3 different images on the screen until it decides to converge.

I guess this is the point where I could get frustrated and say its time to give up paying off the debt.  But no, even when things get tough, there is one really important concept to remember.

Whether you participate or not, the cash flows.  By this, I mean that no matter what happens, if you don’t spend less than you make and keep an eye on where you are spending, you will always be broke.  Once you understand this, you understand that as hard as it gets, you have no choice but to keep on budgeting and paying off the debts.  There is only one road to financial freedom and we are on it.

Instead of being pessimistic, I try to remember that I would be in a much more difficult situation now if we had not made all these sacrifices over the past year and a half.  I have heard that God only gives you as much to deal with as he knows you can handle.  This is how we show him we are up to the challenge and ready to excel.