Some Thoughts for the Day
Two thoughts from today have been going through my mind over and over. The first is from a meeting I had with our Pastor. He said:
Life’s too short for mediocrity.
Good to remember and very challenging, isn’t it? Is God satisfied with mediocrity in our lives? Read Revelation 3:15-17 (and the rest of the Bible for that matter) to find out the answer to that question.
As I was editing an article on finances for a newsletter that goes out monthly, I read this:
(speaking of the precision needed for Apollo 13’s last burn to make it back to Earth) He asked what the degree of error was that they were working with to which they answered two degrees. He further explained that, at only a two degree difference, they would miss the earth by 120 miles by the time they landed. You might be asking what this story has to do with marriage and money? We have all been taught different ways of managing our money and have developed different spending habits. When we first get married, we may only be two degrees different from our spouse in the way we think, however, five, fifteen or twenty years later we are 120 miles apart in how we think and act in regards to our finances.
Wow! Isn’t that true of every area of our marriage as well? If you do not prepare properly and think things like, “Well, we disagree slightly on this one thing but it’s no big deal,” it could be a huge deal in the long run.
