Canadian Personal Finance Blog

This day is really the beginning of it all for the Christian Faith. Strangely Christmas seems to be a more celebrated holiday, but Good Friday and Easter Sunday are the alpha and omega for the Christian Faith. Without Easter Sunday, there really isn’t Christianity (just as there isn’t a Faith without Good Friday as well).

Enjoy the feast and the celebration of our faith. Feast and enjoy, and revel in new beginnings.

Remember that Lent is now over too, so if you had a Financial Plan or Lenten vows to add or remove something from your financial plans, that time is over, look back and see if it was a success. If you feel you failed, figure out why, and either try again, or try something else. Take the good from your works and move on.

Use Easter as the starting of something new, Financially and Spiritually. Revel in the joy of a new start, and new beginnings!

With Lent coming to a close on Good Friday, how has your Lenten Financial vows gone? My attempts at sticking with a Lenten financial regimen has not been a wild success, but it still continues on. There are days when I don’t live up to my hopes, but then there are days when I succeed as well, and I will remember the successes, and attempt not to have as many failures.

• My attempts at controlling my spending at work has not been a raging success, but I blame that on the “Roll up the Rim” contest from Tim Horton’s (although I have won a few free coffees too).
• Stopping procrastination is hard, in all parts of your life, not just money.

I have managed to get my taxes done, which was needed and with that, I may do another set of articles about why Income Splitting would make a lot of sense for single income families (and now with the new RESP proposal maybe we can income split with our kids too?).  Since the Conservatives will most likely kill this bill, I don’t think it’s going to be a big concern, but who knows?

Enjoy the Lenten season while it lasts, but remember Easter is very soon too.

Happy 18th Birthday to my beautiful eldest daughter. I may not be in town to help you celebrate, but you are in my heart always.

It all begins anew today. Fresh, clean and washed clean, time to start again folks.

I think all faiths have a renewal in it, and Christianity’s is today (and every Sunday in fact), so all of the procrastinating can end, because you can start today.

Take stock of all the financial assets you have today, and figure out just how much you have. Find all of your bills and debts and count them up as well, and make your own balance sheet. Do it today, start and you will surprise yourself.

Today is the day of beginnings, take advantage and start something new today, or restart something you think you need to start doing again.. Do it today.

He is not here, is a paraphrasing of the bible, when Mary finds Christ’s crypt empty. It is actually a joyful statement, however at the time, it was a concerned comment. He is not here, but yes he is (if you think about it).

Happy Easter Folks. –C8j

Those words sum up Good Friday for most Christians, and they are solemn words indeed, but in those words, the hope of Easter begins. It is finished….

Remember the hope is what Easter is about, hope and new beginnings. Begin again, or keep doing what you are doing, be it in life, spiritually or financially. I have had friends who are not church goers ask me why I seem so happy at Easter given I am effectively celebrating the crucifixion of a man? I have a one word answer, and that is Hope.

Without hope what is life? No matter how bad things seem, this weekend (and every Sunday surprisingly), there is a chance to restart, retry, redouble your efforts and hope.

Enjoy this weekend, whether you are at Church, at home with your family, with friends, or even if you are alone. It all begins now.