In October 1929 the stock market crashed, the average value of 50 leading stocks falling by almost half in two months. Despite occasional rallies, the slide persisted until 1932, when stock averages were barely a fourth of what they had been in 1929. Industrial production soon followed the stock market, giving rise to the worst unemployment the country had ever seen.
The Great Depression followed.
On November 8th, the president of the County Trust Co. shot himself. A few days after that, a small butter-and-egg wholesaler went out the seventh-floor window of his lawyer's Beaver St. office. Similar suicide reports began coming in from across the land.
Suicide peaked in 1935 at 17 per 100,000 people.
I saw a tee shirt the other day that said something about "living in the moment" . I thought "How sad, not me. I'm living for eternity."
If your living in the moment, for money or the things money buys you, your not really living in my view.
Psalm 4:6-7 NLT
6 Many people say, “Who will show us better times?”
Let your face smile on us, LORD.
7 You have given me greater joy
than those who have abundant harvests of grain and new wine.
Blessings, Cecilia
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