As the afternoon moved along, I took a look at what the stock market was doing.  It should not have surprised me, it has been going down for the last 5 days.  It was down around a hundred points at the time I checked, I figured oh well, it will probably drop 150, could be worse.  That was a complete understatement, it dropped 678 points, today.  Just when I thought it could not get any worse, it did.  So it left me thinking now what, what is going to happen next.

Let’s make no bones about it, we are in a recession.  I always thought that was the sort of thing that you read about in the history books, not something that would actually happen during my lifetime.  We are in the midst of the worst financial crisis in the last half a century.  In the last 100 years, there has only been one worse than this, the great depression.

On my way home today I thought about my wife’s grandfather and grandmother (they are not married, one is her mother’s father and the other her father’s mother) and how they grew up during the great depression.  I have heard stories of what life was like, and it sure did not sound pretty.  I am certain that once the great depression was over and their respective families got back on their feet, they thought that it could never happen again.  Fast forward to today, and they are smack dab in the middle of another great economic crisis.

I can only hope that our nation will pull together and get through this as a united nation, not divided.  I do not know what is going to happen next, but I am sure thankful for what I have.  I am lucky to have such a supportive, loving family.  I am so grateful to be surrounded by such a caring wife and sweet children, they are my strength.  Together, we will get through whatever lays ahead of us.  I have no idea what will happen next with our economy and our nation at whole, but I have faith that we will all pull through.