Wednesday Mini Mag

Thankfulness In Troubled Times

“Oh how can things get any worse?” The comment has been heard frequently over the past several months. Yet common opinion seems to be that many considered problems have continued to deteriorate from day to day. It is true according to folks who closely study history; today’s worldwide dilemmas are the most serious of all time. However, that is opinionated evaluation of sorts. Those who have lost family members during wars or due to incurable disease thought nothing could be more terrible. Ones with physical body incapacities or loss of comprehension and memory just know there can’t be anything else so bad. Couples unable to have children, losing a baby during birthing or death of a child in growing years feel defeated. Persons going through the 1929 market crash, Great Depression, Dust Bowl wondered how anything could be so merciless. Agriculturalists stricken by the 1980’s high interest, low prices, bankruptcies, loss of generational farms still can’t comprehend that difficult time. Each era, there has been the question: “How can life get any worse?”