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The earth is the Lord's
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Hi Reader, Happy Father's Day. Today is a day to honor the fathers in our lives — the husbands, the dads, the men who show up for their families every single day. But on this Father's Day I want to talk about another Father. The one who holds everything — our finances included — before we even open the spreadsheet. Psalm 24:1 says: The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it. Everything. Including the money coming in this month. Including the bills going out. Including the conversation you and your husband keep meaning to have about where it's all going. Here's something Wayne and I do every month before we sit down together to plan our money for the month ahead. Nothing long or formal — just a moment where we stop and acknowledge that everything we have belongs to God, and ask Him to give us wisdom, unity and peace as we look at the numbers together. The whole atmosphere of the conversation shifts when we do that — the anxiety and the defensiveness that usually creep in just seem to soften, because suddenly we're not two people arguing over a spreadsheet, we're two stewards of what God has entrusted to us, trying to honor Him with it together. That reframe changes everything. So the next time you sit down together to plan your money, try praying first — invite God into the room and remind yourselves together that you're not managing your money, you're stewarding His. Psalm 24:1 says it better than I ever could: the earth is the Lord's, and everything in it — and that includes your finances and your marriage. Happy Father's Day. Speak soon, P.S. One of the greatest gifts you can give your marriage isn't a bigger income — it's being on the same page about the money God has entrusted to you. If you'd like some help getting clear on your finances and having those conversations with more unity, clarity, and less stress, I have two spaces available this coming week for my 60-minute program: Take Control of Your Finances. Reply with US and I'll send you the details. |
Money and Marriage
Hi, I'm Karen. My weekly newsletter is for the wife who wants her and her husband fully in sync on money, so you can build the life together that you've always dreamed of. Join us here.
Hi Reader, Ben and Mathandi had been married for over 13 years when we started working together, and money was the one thing they had never really talked about. Not because they didn't love each other, but because it felt easier to leave it alone. Afterward they told me: “Thank you for helping us get on the same financial page. We are now working together to build a better financial future for our family.” I think about them whenever a wife tells me, “I can't imagine my husband ever opening...
Hi Reader, For years, I had this dream that always made me smile. I wanted to take my family and my husband’s family to a big house over Christmas, where we could all stay together, have long dinners, laugh until our stomachs hurt, and make the kind of memories our kids would remember for years. But I didn’t tell my husband. Not because I didn’t trust him, but because I already knew how conversations about money could go. One of us would get frustrated, the other would go quiet, and before...
Hi Reader, Money is one of the biggest sources of stress in marriage but it doesn't have to be. I've had the privilege of walking alongside Christian couples who have gone from financial tension and frustration to real peace with their money, not because they suddenly made more of it, but because they learned how to approach it together with God's wisdom at the center. That's exactly what I talked about on the Christianity Integrated Podcast. We got into why money is such a hard conversation...