Errands Done

Somebody must be out there praying for me!  Wednesday, I managed to get out at lunch and get my Echeck, go to the Time Warner office for my Grandmother and schedule the post office pick up for my package!  Phew!  It was actually SO beautiful outside!  The photo that you see is of items that I found while walking from my car to the house after the errands.  I'm not sure what that white leaf is from.  If anyone reading this know, please leave a comment with the info!  Thanks :)

I read from Mere Christianity again last night.  This is the excerpt that really caught my attention (pg. 66)

Now another point.  There is one bit of advice given to us by the ancient heathen Greeks, and by the Jews in the Old Testament, and by the great Christian teachers of the Middle Ages, which the modern economic system has completely disobeyed.  All these people told us not to lend money at interest: and lending money at interest - what we call investment - is the basis of our whole system.  Now it may not absolutely follow  that we are wrong.  Some people say that when Moses and Aristotle and the Christians agreed in forbidding interest (or "usury" as they called it), they could not foresee the joint stock company, and were only thinking of the private moneylender, and that, therefore, we need not bother about what they said.  That is a question I cannot decide on.  I am not an economist and I simply do not know whether the investment system is responsible for the state we are in or not.  This is where we want the Christian economist (Julie says " the Christian economist is a reference to an earlier thought that C.S. Lewis shared").  But I should not have been honest if I had not told you that three great civilisations had agreed (or so it seems at first sight) in condemning the very thing on which we have based our whole life.

What I find so interesting about this excerpt is that the book was originally written in 1943 and yet the state of affairs that are described sound so much like today, 2010!  I think we are either going in circles or spiraling downward without realizing it.  So interesting that the world that we perceive to have changed so much, really is quite the same as it was back in 1943... well, with the credit industry anyway.