Who the Heck is Melchizedek?

If optimism does not come naturally in your world, you might view me as someone who is in denial about the realities of life.  You might consider me simple, naive, or deluded. " How can she think positively all the time?  That's just crazy!"

Well - here's the big revelation.  I'm not positive every minute of every day. (Sorry to disappoint you!)  There are times that circumstances start stacking up in my life, just like they do in everyone's life. I feel twinges of anxiety and then negative thoughts start flooding my brain. I guess the difference is that I don't allow myself to stay in that mind-set.  I decide to believe what God says about me instead of what the circumstances say about me.

One of the most common worries people have is about money - and boy, oh, boy - do I know about money worries!  I was a single mother for 8 years, putting myself through college working weekends at a hospital and relying on grants and loans to take care of my tuition and many of my living expenses.  Once I started teaching, I was only making $2000 a year more than I would have if I had stayed at the hospital doing secretarial work, plus there were student loans to pay.  After my husband and I were married and added another child to the mix, the two incomes didn't seem to make that much of a difference.  Everything I did to try to improve my financial situation seemed to be like pouring water into a bucket with a hole in it.  No matter how much money came in - more went out