Temptations of the money crisis
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008During this overriding financial crisis, we need God more than ever, but—oddly enough—the temptation is to avoid thinking about God and to feel instead that this is something “serious” (or perhaps something human) that we have to fix before we can relax enough to try to contact God. At least that’s the way I am.
Today, “the Dow” is only down a hundred and eighty-something points, so I’m doing better, but last night I was hard pressed to even try to pray because my natural inclination was to worry. And to continually watch discussions of it on TV, or to read about it online.
At one point I even got angry at God. Looking in the bathroom mirror, for a minute or two I yelled and cursed and clenched my fists. It made me so mad that this stupid crisis was forcing all of us to think about it when most of us would much rather be thinking about other things!
Fortunately, I was soon able to collect myself and humbly talk to God and begin to get back in touch with him. But it wasn’t easy.
One good thing that could come out of all of this is that maybe it will show some of us—even the wealthy ones of us—that we are NOT in control of what happens in this world. The illusion of being in control is another psychic fallacy we humans are prone to fall for, just like our desire to fix things like the money crisis instead of seeking out God’s help and peace and healing.
