Stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities, low interest rates, growth stocks, value stocks, P/E ratios, debt/equity ratios, rising inventories, falling loan activity, Social Security deficits, trade imbalances, artificially high yuan, credit default swaps, Lehman fraud, AIG short squeeze, Citigroup 30% of NYSE volume, and on and on and on and on it goes.
Sitting in church this morning to attend the dedication of my friend's 3-month old daughter, I heard a story. A guy named Alex from a small village in Indonesia. He is raised in a very poor, Muslim-only culture. They sent him away to learn, to grow and to bring back the best he could to enrich their community. What he found was the best but it wasn't in his village's economic interest. What he found was Jesus Christ. Now he wants to bring back the best of what he found to his village but the elders of his village have told him that his life will be in danger if he returns with the message of Christianity. This village that nurtered him as a child and gave out of their poverty so he could have opportunities tells him it would be better now if he never returned. Yet, he says how can he not return to share this good news with those he loves? How can he not give the best of what he has to the people he cares about the most?
The first paragraph seems so meaningless while the second is so meaningful. It's impossible not to be struck by the contrast.
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