My father was born in 1902 and lived through two world wars and the Great Depression. I was born in the middle of that Depression. Life in the little East Texas sawmill town of Weirgate in Sabine County where I grew up was hard scabbed, and the Depression colored its citizens' thinking for the rest of their lives. The scriptures say, “Owe no man anything except to love one another.” (Romans 13:8) That’s good economics and good Christianity. You may have heard the mindset of those who grew up in that era:
Use it up . . .
Wear it out . . .
Make it do . . .
or Do without.
That’s the way my family lived, and that’s the way I was taught. I never could seem to get away from it long after I left that small town far behind. I’ve got an idea that our whole nation would be better off if we still lived today by that philosophy I learned from my dad.