It's happening all over the United States. Bankruptcies abound. Foreclosures are on the rise. Health care costs soar. Debt keeps piling up at alarming rates. What is going on? The average family can't seem to make it on one income anymore. This forces both parents to work, and the kids end up in daycare. Soon the focus of the family is to make enough money to make it to the next month. On and on we go until our lives are spent trying to get ahead, but never really even keeping up. We try to race up the down escalator, hoping that someone will shut it off. But it keeps going. In fact, it increases speed. We eventually lose sight of why God placed us on this planet in the first place. Sure, we give to a charity every now and then, but do we really stop to invest ourselves in the lives of others? We are corporate separatists who share the same clod of earth, but seldom notice one another. This is not the way God intended us to live. We are so strapped for time and resources that we can't possibly think of reaching beyond ourselves. We tell ourselves that if we work just a little longer and a little harder, then we can get ahead. Tomorrow things will be different, but tomorrow never comes.