Financing Your Future – Excerpt From The Financial Shepherd

Excerpt From The Financial Shepherd

Why Dollars + Change = Sense by Glen Wright and Sy Pugh

My spouse and I have different spending habits, how do we compromise and start communicating about money?

First, married couples should be aware that this is a common theme in marriages. When individuals marry after being independent for a number of years, their personal goals need to be readjusted from focusing on “me” to “we.” In my practice as a therapist, conflict involving money is the problem presented most often by married couples. Money is important in marriage but it should never be what a marriage is based upon. In fact, if the marriage is based upon anything other than Christ, the conflict will manifest itself through that substitute.

Excerpt From The Financial Shepherd

Why Dollars + Change = Sense by Glen Wright and Sy Pugh

Hope for the Best, Plan for the Worst focuses on the sometimes random, yet inevitable events in life that occur (illness, disease, disability, death) but are never fun to discuss. It is of the utmost importance that we prepare ourselves and others (those that we leave behind) for the perils and hardships of life that often create financial difficulty if not addressed. Unfortunately, many of us find ourselves in a reactive mode instead of a proactive mode; responding to the latest crisis instead of simply implementing the plans that we have already put in place in advance. What’s worse, when times are tough, we tend not to follow our faith, but rather our sight and circumstances.