Not having a mortgage or rent is such a huge thing to me — it changes the way you think about your money. You’re not concerned about what happens to your living situation if you don’t work for a long time. I could basically live this lifestyle forever for $20,000 a year, which to me is not a lot of money.
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A Chapter a Day: Nehemiah 5
They were silent and could not find a word to say. So I said, “The thing that you are doing is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies? Moreover, I and my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let us abandon this exacting of interest. Return to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive orchards, and their houses, and the percentage of money, grain, wine, and oil that you have been exacting from them.” Then they said, “We will restore these and require nothing from them. We will do as you say.” {Click to read chapter.}