Needs and Wants

This weekend, as we were sitting in church, we sang this song, "...Everything I want, Everything, I need, Only You, only You satisfy". It got my mind thinking and it was perfect for this past week!

It has been a tough one. Brian has worked almost 98 hours in the past 2 weeks (which we are very thankful for).He has been gone until almost 8pm every night which has left the duties at home, up to me. I got a taste of what its like to be a single mom, and MAN do I respect you guys! The responsibilities of Brylee was solely on me and I even got to mow the lawn (which I really do enjoy doing). So we decided to go for a walk (Brylee and I) on one of daddy's late nights and Brylee feel asleep. SO in my head, she's sleeping in the stroller, I can really crank this workout out. SO I walk/run for about an hour 4 miles). By the time I was done, my feet were tore up with blisters!! So much for slowly working myself into this. But my "me" time was VERY much enjoyed (just not so much the blisters).

Well Thursday night, we were blessed with a buyer for Brian's Truck. He said goodbye to the car payment and, passed the keys over to a nice guy in Murfreesboro. We are very thankful that we found a guy to pay just about what we were asking for it.




Well Saturday we woke up to our rainy weather, and rain or shine we were ready to downsize my pilot to a civic so off we headed to the car dealer. It is amazing how the Lord works things out. We MADE about 800 bucks profit  on trading it in, and we didn't have to pay taxes on the 2008 civic that we bought.

I absolutely love my new civic but MAN is it small. SO as I was singing in church, I got to thinking...how blessed I really am. Yes, I feel like I climb out of my car instead of stepping up into it. the alarm system/horn sounds like a little wiener "toot toot" when you push it, but MAN!! If I've done my calculations right, WHOAA look at our savings.






So with all of our vehicle "pruning" we are saving 510 bucks a month!!And this is just the vehicle cut backs!

The Lord provided an EASY way for us to save 510 bucks a month! We may not have exactly what we want, but we most certainly have everything we need.

ONLY He satisfies. We can pour our hearts and souls  (Luke 12:34- Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. ) into these materialistic things that we have, and YEAH, they're nice, they give us a sense of security, and we most often time just really enjoy them. But we have to reach that point in our lives when we realize, Only HE satisfies. This sense of security should be found in HIM! I'm all for nice things, but I am even more all for being more like Him!

Thank you Lord for providing for our needs, Meredith