Amen

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that really matter."

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Black Friday

today is black friday.

i received some money from loved ones for my birthday this year and although i need to get some close-toed shoes as the weather has been dropping to the thirties...i could not justify shopping today.
i don't know when we became like this. that we would line up in front of stores the day after thanksgiving at 3am in order to get a good deal.
and i'm not judging u, if u are one who likes to do that. i mean, lots of ppl do, and saving money is great, i like saving money too, but it's something i have been struggling with lately.
and not just black friday but with shopping in general. i mean, i like to buy things cheap but i know it is at the expense of so many others. seriously, i don't even know which stores are non-sweat shop stores besides a couple. and that saddens me...yet at the same time...i don't have very much money and fair trade and eco friendly is so expensive. i have been looking at eco friendly shoes too. and they are cute....but about $80 for a pair of sneakers. and i could go down to famous footwear and get a pair of shoes and then another for 1/2 off and THEN 10% off on top of that...and honestly, i probably will check that out....and does that make me a terrible person? sometimes my conscience screams so loud at me. if we all wanted to do things right, perhaps that process could lower fair trade and environmentally friendly items, but we'd need so many participants.

so tell me....can we do it?

Hmm

"Perhaps the tragedy of our time is that such an overwhelming number of us who declare Jesus as Lord have become domesticated-or, if you will, civilized. We have lost the simplicity of our early faith. Beyond that, we have lost the passion and power of that raw, untamed, primal faith."

-McManus, The Barbarian Way