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What is it to live just below financial "self sufficiency"? * Food assistance * Energy assistance * Medical assistance and still having a hard time making ends meet. * Enormous student loans to repay * Mortgage payments near half our monthly income * Old cars breaking down and needing repair Two working parents Can't afford childcare Can't afford dental care Can't afford so many things... It's like being "almost" healthy -- well enough to live and look normal but every day taking a toll on the body unseen but there. Bringing you down over time so that one day when you CRASH people wonder why. You looked fine. Just Below Sufficient is no place to be. How do I help my children have advantages I can't afford that might keep them from this same situation? What is it to be family when work requires both mother and father to be single parents most of the time? We are following our calls Working hard Doing the best we know how YET - at the edge of every day the stress threatening to overtake us Waiting for the days we will CRASH and hoping for the miracle of better pay for our work.
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Feb 23, 2015
Feb 23, 2015 at 12:45 AM UTC
Just Below Sufficient - 5/5/04
What is it to live just below financial "self sufficiency"? * Food assistance * Energy assistance * Medical assistance and still having a hard time making ends meet. * Enormous student loans to repay * Mortgage payments near half our monthly income * Old cars breaking down and needing repair Two working parents Can't afford childcare Can't afford dental care Can't afford so many things... It's like being "almost" healthy -- well enough to live and look normal but every day taking a toll on the body unseen but there. Bringing you down over time so that one day when you CRASH people wonder why. You looked fine. Just Below Sufficient is no place to be. How do I help my children have advantages I can't afford that might keep them from this same situation? What is it to be family when work requires both mother and father to be single parents most of the time? We are following our calls Working hard Doing the best we know how YET - at the edge of every day the stress threatening to overtake us Waiting for the days we will CRASH and hoping for the miracle of better pay for our work.
#trust#fear#work#money#sickness#economics#ministry
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Feb 23, 2015
Feb 23, 2015 at 12:45 AM UTC
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