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Dan Wooldridge notes that the romanticized and consumerized modern views of Christmas obscure the raw reality of the first Christmas. But in that reality there is true hope.
In you, O LORD, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; deliver me in your righteousness. Turn your ear to me, come quickly to my rescue; be my rock of refuge, a strong fortress to save me. Since you are my rock and my fortress, for the sake of your name lead and guide me.
Howard Morrison confides: "I don’t want my life to be marked merely with hard work, extra effort, pushing through the hard stuff, working toward victories, building, laboring, amassing resources…only to find that they have all been done or accomplished in vain."
Bradley J. Moore writes: "The news has gotten so bad lately that I can barely stand to hear it any more. Yet I am strangely compelled to keep listening, sometimes even against my will, just to stay attuned to what is (supposedly) going on in the world. I must keep up with the things I am supposed to know."
ChangeThis asked three questions about the economy: “In one word, sum up how you feel right now;” “How is this affecting you?” and; “What are you choosing to do about it?” The 1400 replies they received are further proof, beyond the intuitive, that work is life and that the personal is the professional. Given the chance, what questions would you ask the respondents to the ChangeThis Economy Survey?
Howard Morrison, who knows a thing or two about farming and ranching, writes about the God who grows things.
More than four in ten US adults expect the national economy will be in better shape a year from now than it is today
Dan Wooldridge shares the story of a despairing entrepreneur who loses the desire to work in order to explore sobering reality of the cost of toiling in an entrepreneurial life.
Glenn McMahan's misfortune in Argentina leads him to make extraordinary observations on why work can be so soulless and deadening. He also shares how to find hope and meaning in the midst of the drudgery.
"Fear," says John Hope Bryant "has the world in its grips these days, and fear is the ultimate prosperity killer...Fear that the party as we knew it, really is over, and fear that we might actually have to build something that has real and sustainable value. Fear that we may have to do the real work, and offer the real sacrifice, that love requires."
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Look around: All of a sudden, social moods, political rhetoric, and geopolitical relations are becoming heated and unsettled - a notable change. Financial and other stresses that seemed manageable or even inconsequential only a few years back have burst out into the open, spawning turbulence and rivers of red ink. Meanwhile, nobody seems to be in charge, while many falsely claim to have all the answers.Michael J. Panzer
When Giants Fall - An Economic Roadmap For The End Of The American Era , (p. 182), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009
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