Are you ready for a new beginning?
During the recent wild fires that swept through three separate areas of Southern California, the news was open for business 24/7. Emily and John Jordan are both in their late 50’s and were looking forward to retirement. 2008 has not been nice to the Jordan’s; it actually has been down right cruel. Just a short week ago the Jordan’s huddled around their kitchen table in their Yorba Linda home contemplating selling there home due the collapse of their investment portfolio. They quickly discounted that idea when Mr. Jordan reminded Emily that the value of their home was not anything to be depended on.
On Sunday morning the Jordan’s lost their home to what they called a great big firey monster. With a news reporters oversized microphone in their face, they answer one of the many stupid questions posed, “What are we going to do?, we are going to start a new beginning.”
We in America have tussled with crisis after crisis as of lately. We’ve chosen sides, we voted, debated and worried. Often we reserve worry for ourselves without serious consideration for those who are less fortunate than us, even though our fortune is luck that can be burned to an unrecognizable crisp. With the wave of Democratic voting, I believe that America may be finally maturing into the Country that the world needs to emulate. The kind of place where family means everything, profit is second to neighbor and community. A place where concern for others blanket a wide geographical, economic and sociological area. We will get there, we are getting there. No one knows the distance, no one knows the amount of backsliding in our future, but for right now God is slapping us in the face and screaming “Wake Up!” as in the final scene of Spike Lee’s “School Daze”.
Our material wealth means nothing, our greed, discontent and disrespect for the Earth and all it’s people is catching up to us. When you are left with only the clothes on your back, you must eventually wipe your eyes and say, thank God I’m alive.
Like the Jordan’s, can you wake up with nothing and say “we are going to start a new beginning”?
That is a sad story, and like the Jordan’s there were many who lost everything in the recent wild fires. If I were in that situation, which I hope not and don’t wish it on anyone, I would have to be optimistic and would have to start a new beginning. As a person we have to find reason with in ourselves not letting insanity in, because then you’re done for and so is your family. I wouldn’t care about my material things but I would cry for the memories that maybe got destroyed. If you have a stable job and make a good income then maybe you will be ok but then there is people who don’t have money or a job who lost their homes and now have to depend on welfare, unemployment…but at least you are getting welfare and unemployment right? We have to help each other as a community, that’s why I’m for “Organizing America”. Barack is right, in these times we have to come together and help one another, that’s all we have, that’s what God would like.