Learning From Our Mistakes

I’m Miriam Neff, and I’m Valerie Neff Hogan, with Wise Women Managing Money.

M A quote from 1989 Forbes magazine, Paul Johnson.  “Americans are well aware of the improvident manner in which debt is being accumulated.  They know it is wrong as well as foolish.  As individuals they feel powerless to do anything.  As collective voters they are divided.  So the wrong is not righted.  The folly continues.  They are, in consequence, profoundly uneasy . . . “

V A mark of being a human is the ability to learn from one’s mistakes.  This is true of individuals, cities, states, and nations. But do we? 

Those words are true today.  Our nation accumulates debt: our nation is divided. Scripture has an answer.  Owe no one anything.  We may not change our nation.  But we can follow that instruction as individuals.