Black Friday.... really?

Black Friday

The day after Thanksgiving.... the day set a side to honor and praise God for all the many blessings of the past year. (Like we really need a holiday to remind to do that? Oh yeah... we are American’s) The Turkey is barely been digested and our new holiday.. “Black Friday” is all the rage around the USA.

Really after saying thank for all our blessing we need run out and buy MORE!
Run out a 3 or 4 a.m. because that’s when all the best deals are happening.
I think Satan is laughing his head off at our materialistic world.
Rather than sleep, get rested and enjoy family... we’d rather get up crazy early, push and shove in order to try and get that “door buster” or “super savings on select items”.

Really having more is really worth it!

The average person live on $2.00 per day in this world, while we are in line today.
Between Black Friday and Christmas Eve, we in America will spend more than 400 billion dollars. By Dec. 15th, we won’t even remember who gave us half of our new stuff.

Now I am not against gifts. I love both giving and receiving gifts.
But when we must get up long before the sun wakes up.... something is wrong.
When we go from thankfulness to credit card debt in 24 hours or less.... something is wrong.

Ask yourself who created “Black Friday”.... the retail outlets of America.
Who benefits from “Black Friday”.... the retail stores of the USA.
Ask yourself did the long, early morning, crazy shopping line radically change yours or anyone else's lives to day?

Maybe “Black Friday” is the best name for what is happening today. Maybe it best describes our hearts. Dark and black from the love of things, rather than the love of people.

But then again as a friend of mine mentioned this morning... “maybe this is like the fishing opener for women.”