No matter where you live in the world, you possibly spend some time each week trying to figure out how to manage your money—or your livestock, cornfields, or home industries—wisely in an uncertain economy.
I was picturing us around a table, coming together with God—you and me, the kids down the street, my own kids and brother, all the dads and moms, cousins and grandparents in the world.
The 18th-century Scottish philosopher and economist Adam Smith, a keen observer of people's sentiments, once remarked that "the chief part of human happiness arises from the consciousness of being beloved.