Early this morning, I rolled out of bed, made coffee, took a shower and got dress and had a brief God time of reading the Sacred story. Then gathered some last minute items and place them in the suitcase. And then headed to the airport to fly to Nashville for a Financial Peace University Coaching training (For more information, click here).
For those joining in this conversation, I am an Army Chaplain. And one job is to provide Pastoral counseling in the area of finances to our Soldiers and Families. Those who desire spiritual wisdom oftentimes go to a Chaplain to receive pastoral counseling. As you can guess, quite a few pastoral counseling is about finances. And so, the reason of attending this week long teaching on finance. This program has helped thousands of Soldiers and Families in getting rid of their debt (or putting off the deficit-mentality) and building wealth. Since finance can be one leading cause of divorce, it was important to learn more about finances in hopes of providing better counseling and training to marriages. Some Soldiers lack the knowledge and life skills to be financially responsible. Thus, it is my prayer this week that God would bring more financial responsibility and health to the 57th Soldiers and Families.
“The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.”–Proverbs 22.7.
The other reason why I am thrilled of taking this Coaching class is personal. Over the last three years or so, I have been learning tons on how to be more financial responsible. And the more I learn, the more I realize that I was living with a deficit mentality. Meaning, that it was okay to be in debt in the name of having credit. I was a slave to the lender. This type of mentality can cause added stress on marriages. Oftentimes, people get divorce because of allowing money fights to erode marriages. Really sad, isn’t it? And so, on a personal level, I am learning and being more responsible financially.
The last reason why I am glad to attend this course is the networking potential and a sense of joining with others in a cause. You see, we at this Conference believe that our economy has a misplaced fiscal idea that financial deficit is good. For some reason, we are living in the age where credit card debt per household is averaging $12,000 while savings is about $3,000. Why is this? This is not healthy nor positive for our society, for our Families, for our tomorrow’s generation. And so, we at this conference is learning the Financial Peace University material so we may bring it back to our workplace, our communities, our churches, our schools teaching financial responsibility changing the world we live in, one Family at a time.
When you have a chance, please pray for our Soldiers and their Families that God would bless their marriages with financial knowledge and skills to be more fiscal responsible. Thanks.
