Got Any Ideas for the Fix?
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
Long Ago Our Fore-bearers’ Species
Crawled Out of the Soup of Water and Breathed
… Breathed the Air God Gave Them,
Gives Us,
Unless We Burn the World Down.
Psalm 150:2
Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his surpassing greatness!
Romans 1:20
Ever since the creation of the world his eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things he has made. So they are without excuse ….
Words of Grace For Today
We’ve taxed the whole earth to support us greedy 8 billion people, and in many and various ways the earth is fighting back to reduce us back to …
back to whatever it takes.
While climate change fills the air with smoke from wildfires, many times more fires and acres burned than ever before in a year, and while we find it hard to breathe,
Covid came and we wrestled it to the mat but it’s not pinned and gone yet and never will be, they tell us,
the economy went into turmoil, because we stayed home, money stopped changing hands as fast, government subsidies helped many, and then with the lockdowns ended, money changed hands at a rate to make up for the lockdown-slowdowns and inflation climbed like a rocket (but not like the 80’s of 20% and more, just 8%) so the central banks increased interest rates to slow things down.
Now the pain of increased interest rates bites hard and many face more than difficulties, even bankruptcies, and many ask what are we doing????!!!!
Other than the central banks increasing interest rates, which will put more people out of their homes, and rents have skyrocketed so renters are not immune, what have we done?
Some experts say there is much we could do.
The best line I’ve heard quotes the Simpson show: “We’ve done nothing and we are out of ideas.”
But, like the visible evidence of God’s works all around us, there is plenty of evidence there are things, bad things, done, and there are things, good things, to be done.
It starts remembering our place: we are sinful creatures of our Creator God. So confession and repentance start every day (and every thing). Then in thanks for all that is, and for all that we have and are, and for all that will be: we can give God thanks and praise.
I’m not sure if that gives a good start to what can be done to counter inflation with more intelligent efforts than leaving it all up to the central banks and interest rates increases, but
It is always a good start …
a good start to this day,
a good start to every day,
a good start to every thing.
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It’s a good start also because whatever ideas we then come up with will be ideas to deal with reality: we are sinful creatures and God is our Creator, and Creator of all that is. And God don’t make no junk.