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It happens to everyone – the disappointment of a financial setback. Maybe it’s a medical emergency. Perhaps it’s an unexpected repair bill. Maybe it’s a decision that didn’t work out. We all face financial setbacks. The question isn’t “if”; it’s “when”.
When those setbacks occur, we may be tempted to take one of two paths. Maybe we catastrophize the setback. We give up, thinking that every time we begin to make progress, something bad happens. So we stop trying.
Or maybe we take the opposite path, gritting our teeth and digging in, laboring hard to get back to where we were and to prepare better for any other potential setback.
Both of these responses make it all about us. Maybe it’s all about our feelings of disappointment, regret, and even despair. Or maybe it’s all about our determination and fortitude.
There’s a place for allowing ourselves to feel the disappointment. And there’s a place for rolling up our sleeves and digging in. But there’s a more important place for slowing down, stepping outside of ourselves, and asking God, “What do you want for me in this situation?”
Join us as host James Lenhoff helps us think through the spiritual side of handling financial setbacks. The setbacks will come. Will they crush us? Will they harden us? Or will we allow God to use them to stretch and grow us?