I'm struggling here - I feel I ought to write a blog about the credit crunch, but I don't understand it. In fact I am sitting here with one of my children on my knee with my brain aching.
I do understand, though, that a lot of people are hurting, and worried, and confused.
It seems to me that we find ourselves in places like this for all sorts of reasons, and sometimes it doesn't matter why we got there, it is what we do when we get there that matters.
CS Lewis said "Pain is God's megaphone to a dying world". He wanted to point out that when things go wrong it can be a strong prompt to drive us back to the only palce we can find eternal security. Odd isn't it, that so many could find enduring peace in the one who gave up the riches of heaven and had no place to lie his head, while so many find turmoil in the richest money markets the world has ever known.
An ordinary Christian bloke reflecting on the news...