One Big Step

Well, I am about to leave the house to do something I have not done in a long time. I am going to the bank to make the final payment on our van. Tomorrow when I wake up it will be the first day in almost twelve years I have not had a car loan. I cannot even begin to say how happy this makes me.

I have also had to make a decision about the truck I am going to be bidding on. Old "Black Beauty" has been running okay, and I have decided to "throw out a fleece". I am still going to bid on the truck, but I am going to bid much lower than I had originally intended. I want to know that if I win the truck it is because God wanted me to have it. My original intent had been to bid aggressively for it since it is a good deal, but now I am thinking maybe God has a better idea. What if He wants me to use the money I would put toward the truck to pay my debt down some more?

It is hard to know exactly what is the right thing to do, but I am going to make a very conservative attempt at the truck. I figure I will win if it is of God, and if I don't then I will trust Him to keep old "Black Beauty" running until I am in a little bit better shape to look into another truck. Sometimes you just would like to see a billboard that tells you exactly what you should do.

Anyway, big steps are being taken here. To anybody who might be reading this, I think readership has slipped a tad, keep us in prayer as we plod on. When we think about how long it will take to fix this it can be depressing, but it took almost twelve years for it to get this bad, we can't expect it to clear up overnight.

God Bless!