Full Circle

This morning, Grandad said his life may have come full circle. With the financial world being in an upheaval, he remembered he started his life in the Great Depression and we all hope we do not end it in another one. We used to have things in place to ensure that would not happen, but apparently some of them have faded away and we need to be strong, intelligent, frugal, helpful and prayerful to avert the big disaster that happened a hundred years ago. And yes, it began about that long ago when people were prosperous and threw caution to the wind and lived for today and not for the future. When people let morality declline to the point that nothing was a shock.
I was thinking about all the money our church is spending because we just don't know how to be nice and how all that money is spent just on us. We are a financially secure church and that money should be spent on people who are going to need help. Not just a soup kitchen (if, God forbid) that becomes a reality, but on helping others now,,,,with classes on how to make healthy and cheap foods, how to manage debt, how to make do on fewer clothes that are still fashionable and pretty, how to do..I don't know, the list goes on. But we have so many good teachers in our congregation that we could do a lot to help people through this crisis. But no. We need to worry about ourselves. Seems there is a lot of that "me" stuff out there. Time to take a look outside ourselves and see what we can do.