This year's flood

Traci's most post about spending gave me a thought that I decided was too long and off target to put as a comment. She was noting that finally in this financial crises you hear people talk about trying to control their spending.

It made me think about disasters that affect our communities, be they natural, human-implemented (war, terrorist, etc), or in current days, financial. I was just thinking how they serve as a modern-day flood. Whether or not one believes the biblical flood happen or not, you can take away from the story that people were messed up and the flood was used to set things straight and start new. How about the story of Joseph storing up food in the good times to feed entire regions in the bad times. These are obviously not new stories to our primarily christian society. It's fascinating to me that as a society we live beyond our means thinking the party will never end. If nothing else, the income party ends when you retire! It's difficult to look or plan for much of the future, and all though the bible also says to not worry about tomorrow, seriously, you have to do some planning as there will certainly be some floods and famines to face in our lives. Why is this concept so hard?

Well hopefully for the near future our country will learn to become slightly less careless about spending, but I'm sure it won't last long. I've already heard excitement over yesterday's slightly up market....seriously is their hope we'll bounce out that quickly. Let's all learn from Miller and "Live Responsibly" :)