I figure with all the money we have loaned out over the years without repayment my husband and I should start a bank so we can get some bailout money to help us out since all our retirement funds are in mutual funds. That should make us whole again and we’ll promise Congress we’ll be sure to give more money away to people who don’t need it.

Or we could start an auto manufacturing plant. We already have three vehicles off the assembly line and sitting in the driveway. We won’t give rebates or zero percent interest, but then again we won’t buy several corporate jets and we’ll tell Congress we have no plan. We’ll just beg for the money with our tin cups out and explain how all the people down the line from the cafe next door to the steel workers and rubber workers will all be out of jobs if we don’t get enough money to last another month. We’ll be back next month again with the same story.

We’ll be sure to let the unions strip us of all money we get and we won’t bother to try to design a vehicle the public would want to buy with the quality they want. All we need to do is scare everyone and they’ll give us the money.

Never mind that our government is having to borrow the money from China and other countries or just print money to pay for the bailouts of failed businesses. That’s their concern and right now they don’t seem too concerned. We’ll all start eating rice and drinking contaminated milk before this is over.

I was always taught not to borrow money to invest it. If you don’t have it you can’t invest. Now we live in an upside-down Alice in Wonderland world of economics. We borrow to lend and the people we lend to keep borrowing and not paying it back.

I’m not an economist and don’t pretend to be one, but I’m tired of all the panic I hear on the news. What did the people in Adam’s day do for money? They traded goods and services, right? I guess I could plant a garden and get a few goats and cows to trade for services if I had to. It might be nice to get back to a simple life.

All I know is Jesus said if God takes care of the birds in the air who do nothing for a living how much more will He take care of us. It’s in God’s hands in our household, even as we watch a couple of years of retirement money disappear in one month. Pretty soon we’ll have to pay the companies to hold their stock.

This is such a temporary situation when compared to eternity. This is a time to try men’s souls and faith. Ours is strong and we know God will provide for us. We will continue to tithe our money each month and if the money runs out and we have to go to livestock we’ll tithe that too by selling off the livestock.

The point is, quit worrying. It isn’t going to make anything better anyway. Thank God for your blessings. Count them up and you’ll be surprised. We have shelter, food, clothing, health, family, friends, a church we can count on for moral support and financial too, if need be. We are rich! Compare it to the people in third world countries or even in poorer parts of our own country.

Our God is sufficient for all our needs. That’s all that matters.

Written by ~J~