if I'm not careful to take care of my soul—things start to unravel in my life really fast. We could sit down and name a hundred of these scenarios without thinking hard. Like if we keep our credit cards maxed out to buy this or that thing—or just to cover other debts by moving money around— we're always going to feel like the world is falling in around us. The thrill of buying something is so brief compared to the long months of paying it off, paycheck by paycheck. Why do some of us have to keep