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The other morning Theresa and I had a breakfast conversation regarding various election concerns including universal health care which combined private and public elements.  I must confess no silver bullet hits home for me as we muck around in the messy nature of the fallen-ness of creation, human culture, and individual/familial/societal sinfulness.  None-the-less, may God grant us as the people of God, an extension of the Kingdom of God, the grace to step forward in the blessing of others and the creative redemption/re-creation of our families, neighborhoods, towns/cities, society, culture, and world.  Join our family as we make this a focus of our prayers today.

With regard to this topic, here's a Children’s Defense Fund video passed along to me by Steve Tuttle, a former InterVarsity Christian Fellowship Mid-Atlantic Regional Director who now works with UrbanPromise Ministries, Inc.  The suit who analyzes Wall Street for the course of the whole video is a boy involved with UrbanPromise Ministries in Camden, NJ.

In a time when much effort is being expended to save Wall Street, nearly 9 million children in America live with out any healthcare protection.  It maybe that bailing out Wall Street is unavoidable at this time but we also need to ask deeper questions about how we got into this situation in the first place, what values are driving the choices being made.  With the abilities we have it is a tragedy that 9 million children and familes have no healthcare options in this country.