Posted on 04/03/2011 8:20:11 PM PDT by wizkid
Like the Prodigal Son, America squanders the wealth that our predecessors bequeathed to us. Our country has turned from the path of the righteous and has sought pleasure from riotous living at a dear cost to ourselves and to future generations. We elect leaders that reflect our own narcissism who promise change but lead us further astray. True change, repentance, requires keeping the old covenants and living within our means. Unlike the Prodigal Son, if we do eventually repent, our creditors will not welcome us with robes and slippers. Creditors demand cold hard currency with interest that they extract by imposing draconian controls on deadbeat debtors.
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Marshallsea Prison was the home of Charles Dickens’ heroine Little Dorritt’s family in the novel “Little Dorritt”.
Dickens’ father was imprisoned in such a debtors prison and that greatly affected Charles.
One of my goals in life is to read all of Dickens’ novels. I still have about four or five to go. My favorite, I think, is “Bleak House”.
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