Preparing for the tuture

It must be obvious by now that the US economic system is going to suffer a severe setback, if not a collapse, in the near future.  The deficit is huge and growing, China is grabbing Canada's oil, US agriculture has a trade deficit for the first time ever.  Foreign businesses and consumers are shunning US products for political reasons.

 

Meanwhile, the Bush administration has already pushed through Patriot II, as part of the new Homeland Security Act, and is gearing up for fascism.  The future looks pretty grim for Americans.

 

How will we cope?  We have been trained to be consumers, and pill takers, and entertainment junkies.  We chase the almighty dollar in order to satisfy these manufactured desires.  How will we manage in a world where material goods are no longer easily available, medical services are prohibitive, and there is no social safety net?

 

We must change our values.  We must no longer lust for the things of this world, but rather for spiritual values- truth, justice, mercy, love.  Then we will survive, and build a better world.

 

Do not love the world or the things of the world.
If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
For all that is in the world,
sensual lust, enticement for the eyes, and a pretentious life,
is not from the Father but is from the world.
Yet the world and its enticement are passing away.
But whoever does the will of God remains forever.

1 John 2: 16-17

http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/123004.htm

 

In the name of the Prince of Peace,   Carol Wolman