Toward A Sustainable Economy

With all the discussion in the world about what it takes to create a stable, sustainable economy, one would think that we would have found the answers by now, and be living them. However, the reason we are not, I believe, is because we are caught up in a legacy of values and behaviors that are fundamentally out of harmony with the very stability and sustainability we seek.

We live in a time when we are both reaching for the new – for a loving, generative, earth-balanced, economy of mutual support and service – and caught up with ways in which we individually or collectively may act in ways that can be unkind, selfish, indifferent, exploiting, or without sustaining care for one another. It is not that we do not want change. It is that out of fear we have difficulty letting go of old patterns of values and behaviors that would seem to be what we “need” to do in order to survive. At different ends of the economic spectrum – those who have little fear losing even what they have; those with more have come to see their economic means as their foundation for security and so seek to maintain it. The result is a system which perpetuates itself, out of the motivations and values that so many of us can so easily get caught up in.

The answer, really, is to trust and believe in what we know: that to create an economy that is loving, generative, earth-balanced, and mutually supportive and serving – we must simply risk living this way – trusting and learning to trust that the outcome will be good. As we do so, God leads us in our individually and collectively toward a future that is whole, sustained, mutually beneficial for all and for Earth.

It is the future that lives inside us. It awaits our choices: to follow our hearts, and to learn to do so in each moment and with each choice. So we change our lives, and our lives are led by the Divine. So too the world changes.


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