Sometimes the timing of these things is uncanny. I spent part of the weekend with my stomach in knots and my head in fits over the news about the economy. The macro-level questions about the near future of our national and global markets are just staggering to consider (I’ve found Jim Manzi particularly helpful in sorting all this out), and all of that is a diversion away from the balance sheet in our own homes. Tough, mysterious, confusing, and not a little bit scary. 

Grant us, Lord, not to be anxious about earthly things, but to love things heavenly; and even now, while we are placed among things that are passing away, to hold fast to those that shall endure; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.