.searching for peace.

Sundays are fairly busy days for my sweetie and I. We make it a point to attend church (we <3 our church, btw), we have lunch with his family (and sometimes, play games to relax), we attend a Bible study together at 3, and now, we've added Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University to the agenda. We firmly believe that Sunday should be a day of rest, and although we aren't always laying in bed resting, our schedule is full of necessities that offer peace are preparing us for what God may bring our way.

Now, it's no secret that Sean and I want to get married as soon as we feel God's permission and blessing. And we've felt that lately. We know that God supports us and is leading us to a life together. And since we don't believe in long engagements, we have chosen not to get engaged until right before we plan to get married. In short, we'll set a date for ourselves and get engaged based off of that date and how long we (or I) will need to plan the wedding. I say all this to say that Sean and I don't think it's too early to prepare for our future together. I mentioned an interest in wanting to go through the FPU program alone to Sean's mother, and she looked up where the classes were offered locally. I was positive Sean wouldn't be interested, but he jumped onto the bandwagon and signed up even before I did! It was very encouraging and exciting for me...for us! Neither of us are completely responsible with money, so even if a few aspects of the program didn't apply to us, it couldn't hurt in any way.

So our first class was this past Sunday. It was eye-opening, alarming, and encouraging. Ramsey uses statistics, visual aids, and humor to get his point across and to stress the importance of saving money, investing money, and spending wisely. With it being the first class, Ramsey didn't delve too deep into the idea of how to save and how to invest and how to cut credit cards out of your life, but he did display that his knowledge is reputable and that he is a great financial mentor. In the words of Zig Ziglar, "If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them." Both of us are super excited about enduring this class together.  :)

For those of you who don't know, I may be finishing this 13-week FPU class alone because Sean intends to join the Army within the next 6-8 weeks. This, too, is exciting yet hard to face. Of course, both of us have military fathers, but my dad was out by the time I was a young child. So I think the harsh reality of him leaving will hit me pretty hard, but I'm excited about what God will do in Sean's life, as well as our life together.