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This morning I went for my walk around 5:30am.  Even at this early hour the humidity and heat of the day were nearly unbearable.  I am a heat-lover by nature so oftentimes the A/C is my mortal enemy.  However on this stifling day, I returned from my walk with much love for the whirring heat pump doing its job of cooling our home.

This heat wave reminds me of a time when our heat pump didn't work in the dead of summer.  It was seven years ago when our youngest was a baby.  We needed $10,000 to get a new one and we didn't have one dime of it.  Seeing our youngest lying in his crib outlined by a pool of his own sweat was a wake-up call for us.  If we didn't get our money together right then and there, our children would continue to be casualties.

Ross and I took our own personal classes on money management.  We checked out books from the library, read, shared, and applied what we learned to our lives.  Our commitment was to get out of the $40,000 worth of consumer debt that had us bound.  But we committed to doing it in obedience to God.  We didn't stop tithing, we didn't take on extra jobs (God didn't tell us to), we didn't use any get rich quick programs.  Mostly we began being more responsible with what money we did have.  (Read Matthew 25:21)  To our amazement, in two short years all of the debt was gone!

I've written about our victory in a book called Personal Finances Personal Freedom http://olivepresspublisher.com/  The story is a quick read of a little over 100 pages.  I assure you that in reading it you will uncover hope for managing your money and direction on where to begin.