Economy.

I know that the internet is teeming with blogs about the economy, and what we need to do to fix it. Sure I have my own ideas. In all honesty though, every fix has its consequence. I know that a lot of people out there are either in denial about what is going on, or so stressed and worried about it all that they don't know what to do or how to prepare themselves. As I sat around... or paced around as it were.... with my father last night discussing, sometimes yelling about the economy and the government you often get the feeling of. "We're on our own in this," "what do we do now?" "What's going to happen? what will become of us?" It all becomes a swirling mix of outrage, desperation, and worry, lots and lots of worry. For yourself, for your family, for your future. I was angry that we were never a family of those people who bought and lived beyond our means. We've never defaulted on a payment, we don't pay for things by credit card if we do not have the money to cover it. Yet being so fruigle and being so self concision of our debts got us no where. We will be there right beside the people who had, and enjoyed every pleasure they desired, and simply ran away from the payments. I was angry. I was plain mad. As I've said before, I don't believe in karma at all, because I've never seen it work. However, I do believe in God, and I was stewing. Where was He to help us decent folk out? He's never around when you need Him, and the people he does help are so far and few between it's like trying to win the lottery. As I was pacing the house something ran through my mind. Which is curious because while I knew of this verse, I did not know it.

25 "Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
27Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
28"So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
31"Therefore do not worry, saying, "What shall we eat?' or "What shall we drink?' or "What shall we wear?' 32For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

It's always like that when He decides to intervene in my thoughts. It leaves you feeling, at once comforted, but also like the biggest fool in the universe for doubting "Oh you of little faith." I'm not one to push or shove religion into everything. As I was explaining, I was shoving it out of the situation knowing He had no interest in what happens nor would He intervene. Sometimes, even if we want to deny it for fear of sounding like one of those really annoying televangelists or crazy grandmothers giving you Bible stories for your birthday, Its practical He's there even when we don't want Him; And at those times, we need him the most.