In tough times you start checking off what you will stop buying.<\/p>\n
Make a list now of everything you get with money.<\/p>\n
Number the items in order—things you might do without buying.<\/p>\n
Add to your list, and change numbers, as you think about your priorities.<\/p>\n
You can also mark items from the other end—things you can’t do without buying.<\/p>\n
How many items are on your bottom line list, that you must buy?<\/p>\n
May I suggest there are only two items that you must buy, in good times and bad—FOOD\u00a0 and\u00a0 CLOTHES.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
“Having food and clothes—be content with that.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 —–His Book<\/p>\n
You buy food—you buy clothes—you choose<\/span> contentment, which you can’t buy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Your treasure determines where your heart is.<\/p>\n Your heart determines your contentment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In tough times you start checking off what you will stop buying. Make a list now of everything you get with money. Number the items in order—things you might do without buying. Add to your list, and change numbers, as you think about your priorities. You can also mark items from the other end—things you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-financial","category-inspire_lifter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}