There’s active debate in Washington D.C. about what kind of stimulus is needed to jumpstart the economy. Some type of package will pass legislation, few observers doubt, but many wonder whether the proposed expenditures are going to create needed jobs and produce the right kind of effect.

One fact is for sure, federal debt will increase massively, and that’s not enjoyable news to hear from anyone’s point of view.

I’ve been thinking about alternative forms of stimulus to consider.

In times of financial distress, it’s tempting to think the primary need is for more money. Obviously, bills have to be paid. But money is seldom a final solution to any financial trouble. It’s more wisdom, discipline, better planning, sounder reasoning, honesty, integrity, gratitude and their kin that build solid financial houses that stand and weather the storms of human fear, uncertainty and irrational emotion.

And where does this wisdom and insight come from? It comes from God, the source of all intelligent action to begin with.

What will benefit our economy first and foremost is a spiritual stimulus of wisdom, ethics, intelligent planning, and compassionate understanding.

Prayer opens the mental door to ideas from above that lead to the profitable and productive use of available resources. God freely dispenses these ideas to the listening mind and backs them up with the ways and means needed to fully implemented them.

I pray that every decision-maker in government listens to the divine Mind for direction and acts upon divine Wisdom coming their way.

An infusion of morally and spiritually progressive ideas from divine Mind that lead to a sounder economy for the long run is the kind of stimulus I’m rooting for right now!

“And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.” II Corinthians