tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31425258.post2200923051491934921..comments2023-12-01T01:14:00.205-06:00Comments on The Wonderful Life That Is Mine: Adding to my spirital reservoir.smilingsarahbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03409446985782969856noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31425258.post-90568948354052382872008-07-24T10:22:00.000-05:002008-07-24T10:22:00.000-05:00It will be fun working with you in the primary, al...It will be fun working with you in the primary, although I'm always hiding behind the piano! :)<BR/><BR/>We've had times too where we have paid tithing instead of food, rent or another bill. It is a very hard thing (I even grew up always paying tithing and it was still hard!) I'm really proud of you because it does take serious faith.<BR/><BR/>I look forward to getting to know you better!AZ SMITHShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11987868930445646574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31425258.post-88492451861023221362008-07-23T15:51:00.000-05:002008-07-23T15:51:00.000-05:00you are so strong and such an example. you will b...you are so strong and such an example. <BR/>you will be blessed!<BR/><BR/>Üsheri roghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14886706290159707867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31425258.post-57852447070924570762008-07-23T13:46:00.000-05:002008-07-23T13:46:00.000-05:00I am proud of your leap of faith in paying tithing...I am proud of your leap of faith in paying tithing. Soon it will get to the point where you don't dare not pay it! THere's too many blessings at stake!<BR/><BR/>Have fun with your new calling, Sarah. We didn't get to work together long enough!jennalohahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04195565961877373014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31425258.post-51780472533339531132008-07-22T10:41:00.000-05:002008-07-22T10:41:00.000-05:00Love the new background so summer and uplifting, I...Love the new background so summer and uplifting, I am gald to know you are feeling the love of our Savior, he does love us and know we are human and we do strugle, I hope hte very best for you it sounds like some changes will be going on! I hope you dont have to move out of you ward there with your new calling!Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03932982842179356381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31425258.post-51474953395244802472008-07-22T00:17:00.000-05:002008-07-22T00:17:00.000-05:00Hi Sarah! I've been forever busy and have not mad...Hi Sarah! I've been forever busy and have not made it over as often as I would like.<BR/><BR/>--- this is a long post--- sorry!--<BR/><BR/>Jeff and I struggled with paying tithing early in our marriage, so much so that it would cause fights and contention! I hated it. I pretty much hated tithing. I saw it as a major expense! It took a huge chunk of our paychecks... and as we were struggling along, that was money we could use!<BR/><BR/>Then, one day we really took a leap of faith and decided to just pay, and keep paying. Things just continued to get better. It was never perfect, and still isnt, but when we pay; things just work out.<BR/><BR/>I would go to the store and SCORE some major deals that would make our meal budget stretch as we needed. We would get money in the mail. We even had a medical bill completely dismissed by a doctor. I have such a huge respect for tithing now, and I know that I can't afford NOT to pay it.<BR/><BR/>Last year we were having a major struggle with my oldest son Josh. He was having all these nervous tics, and crossing his eyes a lot. My husband had just found out that the airline that his company was owned by was deciding to sell his company. Our mortgage went up. Jeff tweaked his back and couldnt move at all. It was a rough month. On Sunday I had enough of it! Jeff was sick with his back so I got the kids together to leave, just upset as could be. It was fast sunday and I got there right as they were passing sacranment. I sat in the foyer with my two babies, just so depressed. When the testamonies started, I listened, and just prayed to know how to get through this. How to find strength.<BR/><BR/>Just then a sister in our ward got up and gave her sweet testamony about her son, and all of the medical struggles he had gone through as an infant and how the doctors told her he wouldn't live, and the medications and machines that he needed just to survive. She said that she had read somewhere about a talk that Spencer W. Kimball gave and how if we felt we needed a blessing (and I am paraphrasing) we should give a very generous fast offering. She said that money was super tight for them that all they could really afford was some trivial ammount. She said she gave it though, even though it hurt, and within weeks, things were so much better.<BR/><BR/>I found so much strength in listening to her that I rushed right for the tithing envelopes. I searched through my wallet, I had a $20 bill that I had recieved as a gift and that I was going to use for groceries the next day. $20 may not seem like much to some, but to us-- it was a lot! I gave it to the bishop and just prayed that we would be blessed for the sacrafice.<BR/><BR/>Seriously, within a few months, Jeff had found a new Job, we had realized Josh just needed glasses, life smoothed out a bit, and now it seems like ages ago. Maybe I just needed a lesson in fast offering? I don't know.<BR/><BR/>Sorry this is soooooooo long!Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16156336015329287217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31425258.post-57604062275216314582008-07-21T20:21:00.000-05:002008-07-21T20:21:00.000-05:00Good for you for having faith and paying your tith...Good for you for having faith and paying your tithing!! That is a HARD commandment..it seems so simple, but when money is tight, it sure is hard to let that 10% go!! But we sure do see the blessings from it! Sorry about the foreclosure...will you guys stay out there...or is this a good reason to move back over here!!?? I can only hope!! Sicely is doing pretty good...it's her b-day today...she still has one more month left to go for baby, but she keeps passing out if she stands for too long. So the ward is going to take in dinner to her a few nights a week. Hopefully she'll be ok. Glad things are going ok for you guys!!Malissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16547896304714848781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31425258.post-64847914064195931692008-07-21T19:58:00.000-05:002008-07-21T19:58:00.000-05:00I so understand this. Three years ago before Brent...I so understand this. Three years ago before Brent got his call to Alaska we struggled every minute just to make it. But God was there that Saturday morning the call came. I stick by that. Our rent was due that Monday and we had NO money to get food let alone pay rent. By the way--I gave you an award on my blog! Love ya bunches girly!Brittanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07090123343442273518noreply@blogger.com