The grapes were hanging from the vines in the backyard like little marbles on strings. The purple color reminded me of my lips when I was a kid and had drank a glass of Welch’s grape juice and it left a big ring around my mouth. I didn’t know it was there but when I went out to play all my friends started laughing at me and I never forgot it.

How many times are we oblivious to something so plain to the whole world but we don’t see it, because we are too close to see. I think my getting into debt was something like that. A lot of people were trying to tell me not to buy that or spend all that money on those things but I didn’t know. So the debt accumulated and now I know. If you can hear me and want to avoid the embarrassment of a purple mouth, or a debt situation you can’t get out of then don’t go into debt.

If you are in debt, stop it and get out. Freedom is such a better way of life than bondage. Debt is bondage and though there may not be bars on your windows you are in prison none the less.