Hope

I got teary-eyed during our Financial Peace University class yesterday.  Did I mention that my husband and I are teaching this class at our church?  We have about 70 students and then we break out into small groups and have discussions. 

Yesterday we were talking about debt and the hopelessness that people can feel.  Dave Ramsey talked about his sister's goat "Practice" and how his sister was a goat-roper. She used Practice to practice with and Dave talked about how they practiced so often that they wore a bare spot in the field.  Eventually the goat would stop just before the bare spot and then later he would actually lay down.  He lost hope when he saw that bare spot.  Dave Ramsey says that he is the one who got to the other side of the bare spot and he is here to let people know that there is hope that they can too. 

This video presentation has so much meat to it and it is interspersed with funny stuff.  But I always get teary-eyed when he talks about the goat.  For me, this is why I volunteer my time to teach this class.  It is about sowing seeds of HOPE.  Hope for the future and hope for living life a better, more balanced way.  We, and especially I, felt so helpless and hopeless with regards to money when we started working the Dave Ramsey program.  I had read so many books about money...but I had never found one that actually gave me step-by-step instructions.  This program is so black and white.  That is what I love about it.  Just put one foot in front of the other...and soon you'll be walking out the door. 

Ok, I have to admit that it does come with hardships.  It is not all fun and games and sometimes, when Murphy comes calling...it is downright HARD.  But whenever we have to move aside and get off track to deal with some emergency or another, then we have a plan to go back to.  We have HOPE waiting for us.