Current Events

With all the financial problems our country is going through right now, I feel it is even more important to teach kids how to be financially independent. DeMille, in his book A Thomas Jefferson Education, quotes Alexander Ketler:

". . . the world's greatest civilizations. . . have progressed through this sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage."

Some people feel we are in the dependency stage. I feel, especially in light of current events, we are already in bondage, especially financially. As a country we are dependent on foreign oil, foreign imports, foreign investors. As a people we are held in bondage by our inability to live within our means. Our government is in a stalemate caused by their inability to work together - in my eyes, another form of bondage, but the people of our nation are the captives.

If we are to fight our way out of this bondage (we have done it before and we can do it again) we need to recognize where our true abundance comes from. We need to feel God's inspiration and, even though it may seem contrary to what is being preached all around us, we must follow that inspiration.

I see this natural evolution as an opportunity for our nation and individuals to re-evaluate who we are and what our purpose is. We have some really big problems but I know that we are up for the challenge.