Credit
credere = to trust
Were you taught to give credit where credit is due? I sure was. I was also taught not to take credit when it wasn’t due me. At this point in time, our economy is in what the pundits call “a credit crisis.” No mistake that the Latin roots of this word mean trust. Trust!
When we credit someone, we trust that whatever that person has said or done is trustworthy. I know I’d rather talk to a cardiac surgeon who has already done a lot of heart transplants, and credit her information, over a med student who has only studied them.
So here we are in early 2009 in a credit crisis—a crisis of trust. Of course it’s a crisis of trust! Our financial system, in collaboration with our deregulatory former presidential administration has trampled our trust. Trust is the active form of faith.
How do we get our trust back? Slowly, carefully, small step by small step at a time. We’ve credited the government with deregulation (rightly, I think). Now let’s begin, slowly, to credit it/trust it for regulation. As our elected representatives take the actions that rebuild our trust, credit will begin to flow easily again. Ask: How can I begin to give credit where credit is due, and offer trust so that our economy can recover again today?
Infinition:
Credit is part of our world economy, and I step up today and take my part in it. I give credit, meaning I trust, to God to restore the economic balance and my trust is rewarded with surplus.
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Dr. Susan Corso is a spiritual author, speaker, and counselor. An omnifaith minister and the author of God’s Dictionary (Tarcher/Putnam 2002) and The Peace Diet, she has had a spiritual counseling practice for more than 25 years. She has been an intuitive since childhood.
Susan’s blogosphere writing may be found at Seeds for Sanctuary, Ode Magazine and The Huffington Post, and Beliefnet. Her website is SusanCorso.com
One of her favorite occupations is writing spiritual fiction. She is the author of The Healing Mysteries of Mex Stone under the pseudonym Shulamith Burton. The audiobook of the first in the series, Oklahoma! Hex, came out in September 2008.
Susan is the founder of Sanctuary and ten-year author/publisher of a free e-newsletter, Seeds. As a professor at the accredited College of Divine Metaphysics, she teaches and ordains ministers.
Susan has been published in magazines, online magazines and newsletters including Business Ethics, Beliefnet.com, Ode Magazine, Science of Mind, Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, New York House, Q-Spirit, Self, and Winning Ways. She is the author of several tape series. Susan also writes for the theatre: The God Show, I Would Never, Fight or Flight, and PeaceWomen.
For many years, Susan was an organizational consultant and motivational speaker guiding nuclear scientists as well as entrepreneurs into their life purposes. Some of her former clients include Westinghouse Hanford Company, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Gila River Casinos, and the American Nuclear Society, among many others.
Today she functions as Chief Spiritual Officer for corporations. She lives in one-sixth of a Victorian house outside of Boston, with her beloved spouse, director/actress/teacher Sheriden Thomas, and the spirit of her familiar cat, Charles of the Ritz.
Her mission in life is peace.
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