Comments on: No BB Gun For You

By: erika chapman

erika chapman — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:48:39 +0000

My husband was laid off Thursday. Lots of fun. God is good though!

By: Darcie

Darcie — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:17:55 +0000

A little late commenting, but still wanted to.
Two weeks ago I was dating a guy, and he ended it. He had lost his job and said “we can get back together when the economy gets better.” Probably an excuse, but very creative

By: gail

gail — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 01:59:11 +0000

i work in the financial consulting world. a few months ago i just came to the conclusion that i could continue to worry about the market and how it would affect me or i could believe that God would continue to be the good, kind and providing God that he has always been…

By: psalm23

psalm23 — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:34:29 +0000

By the way, “I love the Christmas story. A few more months and we’ll watch it again “

By: psalm23

psalm23 — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:33:27 +0000

I am losing my job in January. Seriously, my boss told me.

By: Lana

Lana — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:07:06 +0000

Not too much. Agree with annon above. After travelling to third world countries, seems most of us are rich.

By: alicia

alicia — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:31:11 +0000

My husband is working two jobs… praying that he won’t get sent home from work more than one day a week.. Budgeting everything to the last penny. Taking odd jobs to make ends meet. But really God provides every month for our bills – I don’t know how because it doesn’t make sense on paper but it always works out.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:06:44 +0000

In full time ministry, have to raise all of our financial support. I really wish people would stop watching the news. I have to agree that, until the lines are for bread and milk and not iPhones, I refuse to believe that the economy is really struggling. I tried for 10 minutes to get a parking spot at the mall two weeks ago.

I don’t mean to make light of people who are struggling to sell houses and things like that. The housing market has certainly slowed in SOME (but not all) areas. And gas prices are absurd, but it doesn’t change the fact that the economy is just not as bad as the cable news networks would have us believe. They’ve just found that it drives their ratings up for there to be a crisis.

In answer to your question, things are tight, because folks stop giving when they perceive a crisis looming. But we are making it, even in the midst of the medical bills for my son. (thanks to all of you who prayed… he’s doing great!)

By: Ronni

Ronni — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:49:46 +0000

Well I quit school, took a job, got rid of our house (was in a land contract and backed out). Reduced our living expenses by 900 a month (thats alot in Ohio). So it has totally changed our lives.

I loved my house, but live in a 2brm townhouse now. But it made us get our priorities straight. We got rid of about 80% of what we owned. Now it’s about worship and serving God. Period. A few musical instruments, tools for our jobs, a few personal things, and thats about it anymore.

What a shift!

By: Mandy

Mandy — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:49:36 +0000

Hubs is in the RV market. It’s taken a HUGE hit. Our paycheck was down 40% which was hard. Now it’s down 60%. We are commission only which means we have to be disciplined w/ what little money we do get.

Luckily we have an affordable home & no other debt. The 3 kids are understanding about no extras right now.

I’ve taken a job (starting in a few weeks) to cover the 60% cut in pay. Desperate times call for desperate measures…