What does it mean for us to invest?

David and I had an interesting coversation the other night. As I was driving to Indiana from Tennessee I remembered that it had been a while since I had talked to David. I called him and we talked about an array of things but most notibly was the conversation that possibly went way over our heads dealing with money and investing. You see in that conversation we were attempting to unpack the nature of investing and the whole concept of saving for the future even though we would like to apply scripture in a pretty black and white way that complicated life in America.

Having said all that it is this post that is clearly intended to be for a dialogue because David and I would like to not invest in the stock market if we can help it but we are a loss of how we might use our money wisely and not be a burden on society within the future. I think the future of most of us id contingent on how we respond in this very context. We have an opportunity to change the paradigm of how we think in this regard but we might have to be really creative and think outside the box of our culture and upbringing.

That is the challenge for this post to comment in a way that we can work on building a better model for our investing so that we might work co-operatively to better society and how we function without investing in some of the largest and greediest companies in the world.

Peace be with you all during this season.

Deke