A Word of Grace for Your Monday - 8/23/10

Dear Friends:

Thursday morning, I stopped by a friend's office. He was preparing for an important meeting on institutional finances in less than two hours.

The times are stressful. The stacks of spreadsheets and financial statements on his desk tell the story of a community with entrenched, high unemployment. By nightfall the State of California, financially insolvent and in legislative paralysis, will cut off payments to our physicians and hospital for caring for state-insured patients. The specter of cut-backs, lay-offs and reorganization lurk in the muddy, roiling waters of uncertainty. My friend was visibly tense and frustrated with competing demands for data and information while preparing books for an annual audit.

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