A tithing miracle

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_SatanWasSetUp
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A tithing miracle

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I hate having credit card debt and try to keep my balances at zero. But over the past couple months I ended up putting some charges on the card. A little bit here, and a little bit there, and before I knew it my balance was up over $1200. But for a couple weeks last month the project I'm in charge of has been really busy and I was given approval to work and charge overtime. My overtime pay will come to just over $1200.

It's amazing. I don't know how to explain it. I would consider going back to church if not for the fact that I haven't paid tithing for over 5 years.
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Post by _sunstoned »

Man, you had me going there. I was thinking this had the makings for a real faith promoting Fast and Testimony meeting special experience story. It would still work if you left off the part about not paying tithing for 5 years. You could look at it this way, that some things that are true are not very useful.
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sunstoned wrote:Man, you had me going there. I was thinking this had the makings for a real faith promoting Fast and Testimony meeting special experience story. It would still work if you left off the part about not paying tithing for 5 years. You could look at it this way, that some things that are true are not very useful.


That is an excellent point. If I send this story into the correlation committee, it could be used in lesson manuals because they could just leave off the last sentence.
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Post by _Scottie »

Hey, same with me!

I've recently just had 2 moonlighting projects come to me that will end up paying right around $5,000!

Gosh, and I haven't paid for over 2 years.

I'm sure I'll have a $10,000 medical bill at some point and then everyone can cluck their tongues at me and say, "If only he'd paid his tithing..."
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Post by _sunstoned »

I had a son on a mission and was a full tithe payer when I lost my job in 2001. I wonder how that story would go over in F & T meeting.
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