Two steps forward.. One step back...

It seems that whenever we commit to something new, life in that area becomes harder.  This isn't a foreign experience to me, but for some reason it is really hard to accept right now.  You see, Jon and I are working very hard to be disciplined in our finances.  We are no big spenders by any means, but we are really good at going out for that dinner we just don't want to cook.  I usually am the biggest contributor to this, because when I feel depressed I just stop wanting to do much, and so by the time Jon gets home from work I usually just want to go somewhere.  

You see, this adds up.  Financially, we are trying to pay off debt.. and well, as you can imagine, this issue makes this hard to make much headway on.  

This month we did phenomenal with our budget.. however, we have run into some other issues which will strip us down again.  We are not sharing this to complain, but just to say - it is hard.  It sucks.  It is easy to emotionally want to just throw in the towel.  

BUT... we are still moving forward.  Thankfully Jon and I are really good at helping each other up through struggles.  Thankfully we serve a God who is bigger than all of this.  We can celebrate moving forward this month, and thank God for giving us the strength to move through the hard things hitting us.  Yes, we may not be moving as fast as we like, and February might be a complete bomb... but we are moving together, and we can rest in God having a bigger plan than we see, and His grace.