This was November and it scared the pants off of us. The first thing you'll notice is that we spent literally thousands more than we brought in. Not exactly a sustainable lifestyle (oh, and in this month, I included credit card cash advances as income, which I won't be doing again).
But what really scared us is that we spent as much on food as we did on our house payment. I'll say it again - in one month, we spent as much on food as we did on our entire mortgage. I (Sarah) was particularly sickened by this for two reasons. First, I've struggled for many years with food addiction and overeating. It's easy to see now that spending on food and overeating go hand-in-hand. But I felt most damned looking at these numbers and knowing that one person dies every second and one child dies every five seconds as a result of hunger. In the time it took me to analyze my monthly spending, 700 children died from inadequate nutrition.
So, we resoved to change. We know we can't fix a lifetime of habits overnight, but we can eat out less. We can give more. And we know that with God's grace, our checkbooks can be a reflection of God's mercy and love.
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