“Everything’s gonna get lighter, even if it never gets better.” – Mates of State, Get Better
People who know about this project often ask me how things have changed. And with the exception of the financial category, concrete improvements are hard to come by. Even in the financial category, money still feels tight – I think it always [...]
http://www.titheyourlife.com/day-68-recap/
“I have so much to do (today) that I should spend the first three hours in prayer.” ~ Martin Luther (1546 c.e.)
Yesterday I was talking about my project and how I thought it was possible to greatly improve one’s own life in just ten percent of that individual’s given time. Then I began talking about [...]
http://www.titheyourlife.com/day-53-is-there-ever-enough-time/
“If you want something you never had, then do something you never did.”
I have to admit that I didn’t really consider how much time this tithe of time would take. The whole reason I have created and begun to live this program is that my life was broken. I wanted things I did not have [...]
http://www.titheyourlife.com/day-30/
“The best advice is this: Don’t take advice and don’t give advice.” ~ Unknown
I give a lot of advice. It is a bit of a character flaw. I think I know a lot, but I kind of don’t. But last night I had an opportunity to share the research I have done in my own [...]
http://www.titheyourlife.com/day-24-advice/
“I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.” ~Mother Teresa
Finishing the Race
Thank goodness I have another day to finish the week’s quotas. Today I spent the morning with Katherine and Christina thrift shopping for a ‘big-girl’ bed for Katherine. We came up [...]
http://www.titheyourlife.com/day-20-finishing-up-week-3/
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” ~Henry Ford
Time to rebuild the project. I have been to lackadaisical about when and what days I do my ‘tithe’. While my sister was here – she left this morning – I was still working on the project, but it [...]
http://www.titheyourlife.com/day-19-falling-off-wagon/
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” ~Martin Luther King Jr.
It never ceases to amaze me how one day can feel like a struggle, the next a blessing. Today was a blessing.
Faith
Sometimes the best part of faith is action.
Last night, while I was already searching for ways to [...]
http://www.titheyourlife.com/day-9-faith/
“It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?” – Henry David Thoreau
What am I busy about? Mostly it is work. It seems like the second I work on something meaningful, the daily busy work and drudgery creep in. That said, my job is one [...]
http://www.titheyourlife.com/day-7/
“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.” ~Thomas Jefferson
I don’t know if I will be able to keep it up as Katherine goes to school and the pressure to make a solid living builds, but working part-time in order to [...]
http://www.titheyourlife.com/day-6/
“Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.”
~Voltaire
Todays plans included going to personal training, cooking a fabulous dinner, print out financial data and have a family quarterly meeting, and, in the name of friendship, help a friend with her computer. But [...]
http://www.titheyourlife.com/day-5/
