Bombarded all day every day with God-awful news

I wanna take your temperature – does this economy scare you?

Want to get the pulse of our audience

Inflation, foreclosures, interest rates, stock markets, bankruptcies, Presidential election

Economic stimulus plan - $300 – giving us money like it was not ours to begin with

Paying down second mortgage with that baby

All anyone can talk about

Bought gas and it was $3.15 per gallon, $175 groceries and barely had 4 bags

Peter Finch CLIP

Are you scared?

Here's where I am

My faith gives me hope

Time you need your faith – living in tough times

Not hope in my finances, or in the government or even in the economy

My faith gives me hope in something far larger than this

Hope that my life has a larger purpose than what I have or what I do

And hope leads to joy

55 year old guy downsized -

Can you be joyful without a job?

I think an unemployed person can be perfectly joyful

Because joy is different from happiness

Happiness comes and goes

But joy endures, persists, prevails

In a bank office not long ago – awesome panoramic view – quick moment of happiness

Happiness from having a nice office with a nice view and a nice title on the door

One Georgia Bank offices – beautiful – panoramic views

But fleeting stuff

Joy never fails

Joy comes from faith



Are you scared? How are you doing?

How are you coping? Feeling it at all?

Give me your pulse



Coming up next hour – How Happiness

that which does not kill us makes us suicidal