WarHawk-AVG wrote:thankGod wrote:I am sorry you need to sell your guns, there is nothing I can help with in this area. However, as for your conversion... be diligent, and bless you!
No no..you all misunderstand..I am NOT broke..I am NOT destitute...I admit it was kinda hard from time to time, but we are FAR from living under the bridge..Me and my wife started watching Dave Ramsey (in fact I am probably fairly good compared to some)...instantly when we applied his baby steps and started a budget it felt as if I got a 50% raise...INSTANT MONEY...then going to church and deciding I really needed to just pray...actually pray and listen (to get past that 6 months Cristian thing [I have been a Christian all my life..I have just never been a "good" Christian])..and a feeling came over me and I got a word sense to "sell your guns" not a physical word..but a "feeling" an energy and I knew that it wasn't my thinking..I would NEVER EVER just come up with "sell your guns."
I knew right then that I had to do this to really know peace, or at least start my journey (I gave cigs up cold turkey after about 18 years of smoking 1.5-2 packs a day) when I finally decided to literally give them to the lord instead of hang on to them while asking the lord to take em...no I had to want to give em up 1st, it wasn't and still isn't easy..but I did it and haven't smoked in 6 weeks)
I guess what I am saying is I owe my wife and kids a change..I am and have always been short tempered with them (I treat the cats and strangers better than I treat my wife and kids..how sad is that!?!?) and have failed in my duties as a man and a father and need to pick up the pace or get out of the way....this is the only way I know how and as Dave Ramsey (and countless others) said you find those that are doing what you wish you were doing and learn how they did it..well all the guys I see who have great families and happy kids the 1st thing they do is get God...and I have to get God...and God told me to sell my guns..that's step 1..I guess thru further prayer and clawing my way I will get step 2 and step 3 and so on and so forth..but I gotta be willing to take the 1st step happily (even though deep down its "reaaly reaaaaly hard to let go of my guns)
Gotta start somewhere right?
Welcome to the journey of a 1000 steps... you sound well on your way.
And I will restore or replace for you the years that the locust has eaten–the hopping locust, the stripping locust, and the crawling locust, My great army which I sent among you.
And you shall eat in plenty and be satisfied and praise the name of the Lord, your God, Who has dealt wondrously with you. And My people shall never be put to shame.
And you shall know, understand, and realize that I am in the midst of Israel and that I the Lord am your God and there is none else. My people shall never be put to shame. Joel 2:25-27 (Amplified Bible)