Vision Forum has extended an offer to their customers. It goes something like this:

If you spend $195 dollars, they'll give you a free DVD set of their History lectures. If you spend $295, they will also give you a copy of the Geneva Bible (which is the same Bible the Pilgrims brought with them when they came to America). Okay, do I have to tell you how MUCH I want these free gifts? I mean, do I have to describe in detail how much I dearly, and truly WANT THEM so much that it is eating at me? I actually thought, maybe there is a way I can come up with such an order? I even went so far as to make a list. This list contained excellent products that would seriously help me and my family and also seriously enrich our home and schooling. I WANT THEM........ But I can't. I am giving this up. It is killing me at the moment, but I am not going to do it. Why? (Read my previous post - "Daddy's Sacrifice."). I simply don't have a single penny to spare......... What I will do, however, is take the printed email offer from Vision Forum, combine it with my list of items I chose and carefully file them away. So, in a sense, I won't forget. In some small way, I will HAVE these items, even if I don't really have them.

 

 

****** Later:

I wanted to update this post. With the kind counsel and sympathy of others, I have calmed myself. Just like a writhing child, who is subdued. I found this quote from Martin Luther which is really fitting:

 

"I have held many things

and have lost them all,

But that which I have

placed in God's hands

I still retain."

 

I just noticed something else about my post...... Did I say, anywhere at all that I "needed" these things? (gentle smiles).. Our "wants" can often take over our good sense!

 Praise His Holy Name - I am over it!