I need help. I'm having a hard time finding the positive in the current state of our country. Too many people that I know have lost jobs and/or had their hours cut and have no foreseeable way to make it up. Friends who have lost homes to foreclosure and lost everything they have worked for in bankruptcy. Wives are looking for jobs to help supplement what the husbands have lost. We're supposed to be home, raising our families, why is it like this?
I just read a complete nonsense fluff piece as to why gas prices are going up, even though crude oil closed at just under $34.00 a barrel on Friday. This is perhaps the biggest crock of nonsense heaped upon the average Joe since Ford rolled out the Model T. Hello? The big ole Exxon posted their largest profit EVER the last quarter of last year! Why can't the big oil and gas conglomerates issue 'economic stimulus' to the flailing auto industry?
Food. We all eat it. We need it to survive. Yet, as retailers are paying the lowest prices wholesale, they apparently will not extend that same privilege to the mom who is trying to feed a family of 5 on a reduced income. Where is the justice in that? This is another of the biggest crocks heaped upon our society. Do they really think that we are THAT stupid? Note to executive cheapskates in the food industry, "I KNOW THAT EVERY PACKAGE AND CAN I BUY IS SHRINKING!!!!!"
With all that is going on in the world, I am suffering spiritually as well. Maybe I'm going about this the wrong way. I'm breaking my own rules as far as blogging rules go. Note: I wrote them for my own benefit anyway. It is difficult for me to be happy when I know that others are doing without. It's hard to feel the Spirit when I feel that misery surrounds me.
I have looked through the newspaper, the internet, just trying to find some good news. The obituaries list folks who have died many months ago, yet they want us to contact the mortuary if we have any information on them. How sad is that? A person's whole life reduced to 2 lines in the paper requesting what they did with that life and who cares?
So, again, I implore. Help me. I've lost my center. I am feeling as though everything is spinning out of control with no hopes of it ever becoming grounded. My children's and grandchildren's future have been mortgaged to the hilt. Am I a big baby or what?
2 years ago
5 comments:
No, you are not a big baby. Thank you for posting this, as I have felt this way as well, for some time.
Here's a thought: Do you live in Mesa? Do you support the new proposition giving/deferring tax dollars away from the people when past deals have left Mesa in the hole?
I'm voting no on this proposition, I think it's time we stopped playing "let's make a deal" with development companies who keep are tax dollars and leave the residents hanging.
It's not much, but maybe my no vote will be a start.
It's the small businesses that bring in more tax dollars than corporations, where is their handout?
Keep the faith! It is true, our trials do make us stronger! These are some pretty bad times, and are probably going to get worse, but we just have to keep a going and do our best!
I think the best way to lift our own spirit is by lifting someone else's because sometimes that is all we can do. I guarantee if you bring some cookies and some kind words to someone who is lonely or in need, you may not fix the economy, but you'll have made the world around you a little better, and you'll feel good too. (:
I guess SOMEONE has to start the Second Comming into motion somehow.
I agree with you on all of these points and think that the decline of "Humanity" started long before anyone realized it.
I think it we hold to what the prophets have told us, then we will be okay. There is only so much we can do.
BUT when corrupted officials are elected by a corrupt society, what can we expect?
You're not a baby, you are in very good company.
Hey, hang in there. If the prophet took the whole world on his shoulders, he would be crazy. You need to do what you can for your family and pray for those less fortunate. If we are prepared, we won't have to fear. Hang in there!
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