Spiritual Recession

We Westerners are so caught up in Ben Bernake's comments as the fed chief on the economy. Things are tough, but there is another type of recession that is growing--spiritual recession.

Just today, Pope Benedict has made a profound observation in Australia:

"The world needs this renewal," he said. "In so many of our societies, side by side with material prosperity, a spiritual desert is spreading, an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair."

In our most prosperous age (even in the wake of economic downturn), we are in a spiritual recession described as....

Spiritual desert

Interior emptiness

Unnamed fear

A quiet sense of despair....

But, alas, there is hope. Let your light shine today!