Doctors and Taxes
Tonight, I’m doing something I absolutely hate. My husband and I are working on a
budget. I imagine that most of you feel
the same way. It’ kind of like taxes and doctors, we dislike them and breathe a
sigh of relief when they are done. Truth be told; we really don’t enjoy working
on a budget at all. Yet it is one of the
necessary components in knowing exactly how much you have and what you can
spend. If indeed we are responsible to God for how we handle the resources that
God has given us, then we need a clear picture. One piece of the puzzle that
can bring the whole puzzle into focus is a budget. It allows you to see and compare what you
spend with what you have. Sometimes as
I’ve done a budget and looked at what I saw, I could see that the problem was
little things that add up. I realized
that the problem was that I forgot the advice I had been given long ago, little
things add up. As we do a budget, we
often see little things that we miss because we don’t think about them …