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My husband set up our investment account, but he died recently. Do I need to do anything? I’d rather keep everything just as he left it.

All these weeks of talking about the residents of our sweet community - oldies & newbies – has got me thinking about neighbors. Who is your neighbor? I think the word might be a little abused as stores are calling themselves the ‘neighborhood market’ when they aren’t located in your neighborhood at all. When you look up the definition of the word, it is described as one who lives near or next to another. I like that. Having moved a lot in my life, I was always in awe of adorable little communities where everyone knows everyone and you could get help from anyone there when needed. Block parties always sounded so fun to me. As an adult I’m getting to live in that sweet little community I dreamed of as a child. It goes by the name of Cozyhome. But pursuing the word ‘neighbor’ a little further, if we look in Scripture (as we know we should) for the definition of neighbor, we see a different meaning. (See I John 4:7-12; Colossians 4:5-6; & I Peter 3:15-16.) In Old Testament writings, neighbors basically referred to those of the same moral and social trends, such as the Israelites. Those outside your station in life were sometimes hated, certainly not included as a ‘neighbor’.