I am increasingly amazed at the insight that losing a house is providing to me as well as to my customers facing foreclosure. The idea that things are out of your control is one of the most important insights, because you cease to be able to count on your plan to bring you to the place you want to be. Even that place is obscured by having to live in a daily dependence on outcomes that you cannot predict. It comes down to truly experiencing the faith that you may have proclaimed, and yet never actually walked in. At the root of your circumstances,  there are also many clues to the things you would change in the future.

I am presently walking with several people on this journey thru the mortgage disaster, all there for different reasons, but facing the same uncertainties. I am amazed and delighted at the positive outlook that each family is embracing, albeit in their own time and in their own way. It is as if a huge burden has been lifted and the real solutions are begining to emerge, as the responsibility for the problems are accepted. There is a massive coming out of denial that seems to be going on around and within.

This crisis could be a huge 12-step program for the addiction to materialism that has gripped this culture and time. The re-alligning of values with the way in which we spend and prioritize our spending will be an excellent outcome of the crisis we now face, and perhaps, in the end, will actually save us from ourselves.