This weekend I got a little bit of a bomb dropped on me...not a big one by any means, but a bomb none the less! I recieved 2 bills in the mail. One was a medical bill and the other was my water bill. Both were a huge surprize. The water bill was higher than normal (which I should be used to by now) and the medical bill I was not expecting at all.
So, of course, I do the usual stressing, thinking "Great! We already have enough bills as it is and the extra stuff the kids do...what are we gonna do?". I even started crying and my husband couldn't understand why I was letting it get to me so much. My problem is things have been stressful enough as it is, but we've been working on getting out of debt and this did not help. Honestly I haven't been doing a good job of trying to get out of debt lately. We've been paying the bills like we're supposed to, but I've been letting everyone get away with little things that add up.
My husband used to call me the Money Nazi, and for good reason. I got so sick of being in debt that I decided to start budgeting quite a bit. I would say NO quite a bit! And, of course, it was driving everyone nuts!
But, I think that this weekends fiasco was a trial God allowed me to go through just to see how I would react. I'm trying really hard to behave like an adult, praying and asking God to help me control my temper and my tongue. I didn't want to start saying harsh things to the agents on the other end of the phone because I'm sure it's not their fault something went wrong. Anyway....I didn't do as well as I wanted, but I made a teeny tiny improvement on the way I normally handle things...and I'm continueing to pray about it so I can know I handled it responsibly AND was an example to whomever I was dealing with.
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