Financial Crisis

Spirituality in The Financial Crisis

Organizations are created to fulfill a purpose. Corporations, small businesses, churches, schools, social clubs, and even the family, are organizations invented for a purpose. We participate in organizations for many reasons. Some are work related, some educate us, and some entertain us. The reasons are endless. Each is regulated by expectations and roles within the nature of the organization. We are all members of organizations, and we cannot be without them.

But when events in our lives take a downward turn, and the purposes of the organizations to which we belong can no longer support us, we find ourselves in disarray. For example, the expectations and roles of our financial and investment institutions and our mortgage companies collapsed causing an economical crisis. The result was unemployment, foreclosures, and loss of retirement funds. People experienced fear, depression, anger and loneliness. It also caused a breakdown of roles in the family for many causing dysfunction and resulting in pain, anger and sometimes violence.