Hi everyone! Alice and I (Laura) are discovering how this blogging works. Earlier today, I posted an invitation to all of you to join us in this simplicity experiment, and Alice then placed a post that followed the invitation but came out on top. So, it might be helpful for you to scroll down and read my other post first and then Alice's next. Thanks! We'll get the hang of it! :)
Laura Hoy
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Oh this sounds good, Laura & Alice! Yesterday I was working on our finances and came across a pile of mail with end-of-year-gift requests from missionaries, etc. How good it would be to live in such a way that we had more margin to give generously with resources, time, energy,... So I love your idea and I'm ready purge clutter from my house and life and intentionally think about money choices in light of eternal priorities. It's a little scary, but I can't wait to see what God teaches us!
Sounds good, Heidi!
We look forward to going on this journey with you and others! Please encourage some of the moms from moms morning out to log on and join us!
If you'd like, go to the website www.intent.squarespace.com OR google the phrase "Thirty Days of Nothing" and you'll land on a woman's journal of her family's experience with this experiment! They saved $1000 for one month!
Will be good to make some space for God and others ... together.
Merry Christmas!
alice
Well I was very excited to see this in the bulletin yesterday and look forward to givng it a huge try. I stood and looked at the "feed my starving children" with the before and after picture and wondered what would happen if I lived my life in such a way that it could make that much of difference in someone else's life. So I'm looking forward to. For so long I've figured that I'm gonna fail in spending so why even try, why try to get it under control, why try to pay things off, why not charge it? All my willpower doesn't do much if I think I won't make it anyway. So I've started reading "Finishing Well" in hopes of giving myself some encouragement to make some lasting change.
Welcome aboard, Shawn. I'm glad you're going to give this a go! I also know that after repeated failed attempts to change in some areas, it starts to seem futile to even try. But I have just enough hope in God's power and grace and just enough evidence in my past of the power of community and the power of "small steps" that have led to some significant change, that I step forward into new challenges. So, in God's will and God's power, rather than my own willpower, let's be about this together!
Yea Shawn. We are all failures in this area ... if we start together there, maybe we can move toward little successes. Glad to be in this community with you. I find myself looking forward to simplicity after being at the mall more than I like over the last week. I am finding it too easy to make purchases right now. Funny how little phrases run through my head ... "She'll love that!" or "I gotta' get that for him! It's perfect!'
I look forward to trying to avoid the mall or any other kind of shopping, other than groceries, for at least 30 days. It will be good for my soul.
Anyway, welcome to this little experiment. May God give us all grace.
alice
Whoops. Just entered a post as Laura. Please laugh with me. I can't remember my password. Why do I need a password, anyway?
alice
Okay - I think I have this figured out. Anyway, welcome Shawn. Merry Christmas everyone!
I look forward to this little experiment. May God use it in our lives so that we can more fully bless others with our abundance.
Alice, alias anonymous,alias laura hoy,
You make me smile and laugh. And as my post said,the one that you wrote, I too am looking forward to mall avoidance!
The real Laura Hoy
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