For as long as we have been together, "black Friday" as meant joy and excitement for one, pain and contempt for the other. You guess which one is which.
This "black Friday" however is different. How you may ask. The alarm didn't go off at 4 am as has been the norm, but it did not come without pain.
I watch and mourned as my wife struggled with the onset of this shopping season. You see we have no money. None that can be spent at least not to the extravagance it has been in the past and after completing a study in how God wants us to steward the finance He has blessed us with, we couldn't, with a clear conscience, simply charge the impending exchange of gifts either. As, she cried and struggle with her desire to shop, I could do nothing but hold her and try to enter into the pain she was and is feeling.
Is this the beginning of the fall of materialism in our lives? I don't know, but it is both a sad and joyous time. It is different from years past, we desperately want to honor God more than we want to honor Macy's, Walmart, or Target. That's certainly different.
I am both thankful and awe struck at how God can move in the hearts of men and women. There is definitely Hope for the future found in Him.
Richard.
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