Our national economic crisis has a telling effect on every one of us. We are bombarded daily with reminders of the worsening financial crisis around us, and we recognize that there are no easy solutions for these situations as they impact our families, our workplaces and the general community around us.

Like the Prodigal who comes to his senses and returns home, we as God's people seek a new life.  We recognize in this crisis an invitation into a deeper simplicity, a tightening of the belt, and a broader generosity.

Our stated goals in Gospel Life Community move us toward the standard of Christ's teaching, but we nevertheless often fall short of the transformation to which Christ calls us in our own lives in order to live more fully into the Gospel paradigm of God's abundance for all.

God's abundant mercy and forgiveness meet and embrace us, waiting to empower us through the Holy Spirit to face the coming days.

"I have learned to be content with whatever I have.  I know what it is to have little, and I know what it is to have plenty.  In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of being well fed and of going hungry, of having plenty and of being in need.  I can do all things through him who strengthens me."  Philippians 4: 11b-13.