Hold it Tightly to Your Soul
April 10, 2012 (Tuesday)
I searched for some ideas for today’s blog by entering, “After Easter, what?” into my search box on Google. I was hoping for some ideas about activities related to the Easter season, like special observances by selected groups of Christians, etc. The first answer I got was, “After Easter Clearance Sale: 50% off!”
Remember Superman, who fought for “Truth, Justice and the American Way?” Well it looks like this is “the American way.” Better marketing, strategic pricing, “move ’em out now–people want them only when they are fresh.”
Pardon me if I seem to be “anti-business.” I am certainly not. I just thought it a little odd that I got business strategy as an answer to an inquiry about values and faith. No, I’m not anti-business. Far from it, I want all of our American businesses to do well in this hopeful period of step-by-step, ever so lightly, recovery. The headlines streaming in from Europe these days predict an economic disaster that will flood Europe and overflow back into America. We certainly don’t want that. So, please, give the store full of “50% off” items another look. We need the business.
Will the European problems spread to our country and bring us all down in another full-blown depression, as some say? I certainly hope not. But even if that happens, perhaps it’s time for us to evaluate our priorities in life. We can have faith even when that of others is failing. We can have hope even when some are in despair. We can have love, peace and joy even in the absence of material things and assured prosperity. A faith that fails in hard times is no faith at all, is it?
Buy something. Save something. Give something. Sell something. Hire somebody. Go to work. Make your own way. After Easter, what? It’s up to you. It always has been. “The Lord feeds the birds, but he does not throw the worms into the nest.” From a wise person whose name escapes me.
Never stop believing. Always have faith. “Don’t stop thinkin’ ’bout tomorrow.”