Warning: A tough blog to swallow:
Please! I write this to you. A plea especially to mothers and fathers, self employed, broke to the bone fellow friends and family!
PLEASE... PLEASE... PLEASE take this to heart.
I am so blessed with two children 10 and 13. In the last two weeks they have both been to school to learn of classmates parents taking their life because of depression. This economy is robbing so many people of joy because we are allowing it to! I personally have a skinny Christmas tree this year because it will be a skinny Christmas BUT I WILL NOT lose my joy, my love for my children, for myself or by any means lose my life!
Do not let money steal your joy. Do not let money determine your happiness. Do not let money determine your mood. Do not let money make you or break you. Do not let money become you. Do not let money shape you. Do not lose your marriage over money problems. Do not let money take your family away from you. Do not let money take your life.
We are all under fire in this economy and if your business is blessing you I am so happy for you. If your business is just getting you by I feel your pain, if your business is taking you under...well, I have walked in those shoes as well!
The one thing that I have learned in life and honestly I learned this one early... The Bible says in 1 Timothy 6:10 American King James Version "For the love of money is the root of all evil:"
You HAVE to put a stop to allowing it to determine the outcome of each day nad your life!
Here is my mission statement about money, I ask you to print it and post it and read it everyday!
"I love life. I love my family. I may be rich and I may be poor. Money is of no value to me anymore.
With lots or with little I am happy with who I am and my only wish is that I am walking in the will of God each day - every moment of every step because I know that is the safest place that I can be and where I am today and where I will be tomorrow is only up to him."
There are three phases of prayer in your life: WHY ME, SEARCH ME, LEAD ME!
I guess you can see I am in the LEAD ME stage and I hope that by sharing this you will open your mind to how our children are hearing us, watching us and learning from us and please do not let money problems allow you to be another parent we hear about...
Elizabeth Ward Small, National Motivational Speaker and founder of The 3 B Method: Living Life Busy - Balanced and Blessed! www.The3BMethod.com -
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