I’m over on the (in)courage blog today, sharing a bit of our story and some inspiration for your journey.
Being in debt is a lot like being in the dark. You grope around, reaching and praying for a way out. You can’t quite seem to find anything stable to grab onto and steady your feet. You don’t know if anyone else is out there struggling in the ways you are . . .
not knowing if you have enough money to make it to the end of the month.
consumed with guilt from financial mistakes of the past.
fearful someone else will find out.
You feel hopeless and alone and stuck . . . in the dark.
I struggled for years, knowing we were in way over our heads. I sat in the silence of empty church pews, begging for a word of hope. I wished away our mess, all $127K of it. I felt defeated, realizing I should have better managed our money. We weren’t stupid people. How in the world did we end up in this place?
We should have known better. Shame and guilt like to play in the dark. They tackle our souls and leave us lifeless on the ground, exhausted with an inability to move on.
Certainly the darkness fears the light. How quickly the darkness flees from the presence of light! Light strips darkness of its power. Bringing our embarrassing failings into the light is an incredibly vulnerable and potentially painful act, and yet it was the way we found peace and a way out.
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