I hear you now.

As you may or may not know, Paulie and I aren't particularly religious. Neither of us have been to church on a regular basis since we were children. I've always been a believer in religious freedom. I actually believe that most religions are right because they give a person faith in something. There have been plenty of times when I have been jealous of that faith. It was so hard for me to believe in something I could not see, hear, or touch. I think now I just wasn't paying attention. Let me tell you what happenned last week.

Paulie and I have been partaking in Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University for the last few months. It's a once a week class where you learn how to win back your financial independence from debt and build a financially secure future for you and your family. One of the big points Dave makes is tithing. Whether you tithe to your church or to charity it didn't matter. We decided we would donate money once a month to a worthy cause.

The last few weeks I have been trying to think of who we should donate to this month. On Saturday morning I decided I would talk to Paulie on Sunday about what he thought we should do. So I just put it to the back of my mind and went to work. While at work I was talking with one of the hostesses. She was telling me about an old coworker of ours who was going through some rough times dealing with an illness, a mortgage, and a new baby. Instantly I knew where our tithe would be going.

A while later Paulie had texted me a picture of a tattoo he had done that morning. I told him it looked great and that I thought maybe God had spoken to me. He called me almost instantly and was like, "What's going on?". I told him what I had heard and what I felt we should do. He told me that was amazing because he had been thinking about where our tithe should go right before that phone call.

So, yeah, everything happens for a reason. I can now say yes, there is a plan. I can also say this experience has scared the crap out of me. I have some thinking to do.