REALLY?

A vegetable steamer.

Men, women, and children grabbing and fighting over a kitchen appliance marked down in price. Behavior I haven’t seen since my elementary school playground days. Shoving, pushing, and pulling hair.

On BLACK Friday.

My first emotional response when my daughter showed me the video was embarrassment.

A day of gratitude followed by this?

BLACK Friday represented a day where prices dropped to a new low.

Problem is … so did we.

Tempers flaring and priorities way out of balance.

BLACK Friday – appropriately named.

Come on world. We can do better.

This is not who we are.

To quote a favorite movie:

YOU IS SMART.

YOU IS KIND.

YOU IS IMPORTANT.

NOT who I saw on video.

It’s time to step back.

Remember who we are and where we came from.

And WHO we honor.

It’s not about the steamer.

It’s about Him.

So in December let’s grab a Christmas sweater.

A little bit of tinsel.

Strands of twinkling lights.

We have much to celebrate.

Thanksgiving and grateful hearts followed by a season of birth.

A season of GIVING.

A season of HOPE.

Let’s skip right by BLACK. and rejoice in RED and GREEN.