Free Nets Tickets

Brett Yormark announced a new program whereby they offer free tickets to the NJ Nets for the unemployed.  My hat goes off to the Nets.  Not only do the NJ nets offer free tickets, but also they are going to pass on submitted resumes on to their sponsors and their own HR dept.

Prayer in the Time of Financial Crisis

Here is a beautiful prayer to pray in this time:

The political and economic implications of the global financial crisis are widely commented on. How might the financial crisis influence our prayer?

Lord, all this financial turmoil seems to touch my prayer in two ways. Sometimes I feel moral indignation at the greed of the fat cats whose desire for ever-greater profits has exploited the weak. I hope that they may move from blindness to a sense of the real world of people, and realise the futility of their greed that wants more and more money. “What does it profit to gain the whole world and suffer the loss of your soul?”
(Mark 8:36Mark 8:36 English: Contemporary English Version (UK) – CEV-UK
36 What will you gain, if you own the whole world but destroy yourself?) But I know that such indignation is not always from the good spirit; it may be mixed with Schadenfreude in which there is little charity. I need to watch it. At other times I feel fear and insecurity for myself and my loved ones. This pushes me to look at myself.

Does insecurity make me more self-seeking and less caring about the needs of others, lessening my humanity, clouding my sense that people matter more than money? Or does this worldwide turmoil strengthen my compassion? Poverty is not good in itself, but where it leads to a deeper dependence on God and coexists with generosity it can be a rare grace – remember Jesus marvelling at the widow’s mite (Mark 12:41-43).

‘Trop est avare à qui Dieu ne suffit.’
You’re too greedy if God is not enough for you.