Think About It

I am not sure why I was chosen, but I am getting several phone calls a day offering me some kind of a “really neat” loan opportunity.   All I need to do is call them back and (I assume) start repaying the loan.   Now, I realize this is not something I am interested in and since they don’t use the same phone number, I can’t block them, so I just let it go to voicemail and delete it.   I have heard their pitch so often I just ignore it.   I can’t imagine it will ever happen, but if some legitimate financial offer was made, I would probably miss out on it just because I have tuned out the rhetoric for so long. As I erased another one of those calls the other day I got to thinking about how often people have claimed that we are on the cusp of the Lord returning again.   They figure they can read the signs and begin to proclaim that the end of the world is at hand.   They get people wound up, only to be let down when nothing ever materializes.   I am co...