Everyone’s looking at me.
The thought weighed heavy on my mind as my face flushed red with embarrassment. I slid the card through the electronic reader, entered my PIN and anxiously waited for the transaction to finish.
I’d bought groceries plenty of times before, but this was the first time I’d used government money to pay for them.
A year and a half into our marriage, we moved 800 miles across country so my husband could start graduate school. We had a 5-month-old daughter, and for the first time in my adult life I would not have a paying job.
It was an act of faith, to say the least, to go where we felt God leading. We just didn’t expect it to be as hard as it was.
Read the rest of my guest post for Live58 here.