Good Saturday morning! Good news for retailers yesterday with lots of busy stores and shoppers. I am glad to hear of the trend toward cash spending; I don't think any of us need more credit card debt at this time. I went to John Deer and bought a tractor. I am ready to farm now, at least I will be as soon as I can find some 1/32nd scale seeds to plant. Sorry, but I can't afford the real tractors. Okay, so we don't need to go into that any more! :-)
Prayer requests today contain some bad news from around the world. The terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India are still bad news for a lot of people. The terrorists apparently came to several locations in the city to just kill everyone or anyone. Certainly this is a wake up call to India's security services, but we know of another, greater, wake up call to all of us. Trust only in Jesus for our time on Earth could be over in a moment. Another wake up call to retailers around the country. Is limiting the quantities of those Black Friday specials worth the life of an employee? Only the retail organizations can answer that, but I think we would all say "no". People have lost their lives in crowd reactions probably ever since the first crowd formed. A human life is very fragile; the real tragedy is losing it to something like a merchandise sale. Perhaps a wiser alternative would be to make the specials somewhat less attractive, but don't limit the quantities and then hand out rain checks during the day, more like a normal sale. We don't need to see any more clerks killed for a holiday sale.
The amount of shopping is a good sign, perhaps we can start putting this recession behind us. Christmas is a good time to move forward and to spread the good news about Jesus. And yes it is! You have put up with my Christmas carol remarks for some time now, but the Christmas season has arrived! Put on the Christmas cheer and crank up the stereo, the music of the season is on. Praise God for the celebration of the birth of His Son, Jesus Christ!
Let's hear it for Christmas!
Bucky
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