Recently my wife and I have been asked to share that we are paid off $56,000 and are debt free except for the house in front of the entire congregation at our church. At first we felt uncomfortable in doing so. I mean from the people I see here at Lighthouse our story is not nearly as dramatic. At Lighthouse we have couples who have gone into debt from events like illness, loss of job, death of a family member, addictions, or even those that have been a victim of crime. They have clawed and battled their way back in a much more inspirational way. The truth is most people have not gone into debt in such a way. I know that was not how it happened to us.
A few days later it started to make sense we were normal. If you don’t believe that we were normal these stats can help like 55% of the US population lives paycheck to paycheck, the average student loan debt is 14K or the average car payment today is almost $400 a month. It was normal to have debt and normal to live paycheck to paycheck. What makes it uncomfortable is that we now have to stand up and tell people that we are weird!
So we are going to do this and we are now excited about it. Not that we have an exciting story to share, we kind of just let the debt happen to us because that’s what we thought was normal. We are excited to reach out to all of those other normal couples and share with them how good it feels to be weird.
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