Comments on: Yes…it happened. http://rhythmva.com/2008/12/yesit-happened/ A weekly gathering of college students and young adults in and around the Roanoke Valley. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:53:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Brian http://rhythmva.com/2008/12/yesit-happened/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Brian Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:05:12 +0000 http://rhythmva.com/?p=251#comment-22 What is says is this: we as a people are as selfish and self-centered as we have always been. And it saddens me that we are so "gift"-oriented rather than grace-oriented. Want to get gifts. We want to give gifts because we like the way it makes us feel or we want something in return. Honestly, what guy ever gave his wife lingerie for HER to enjoy?!? And, in the end, it makes me even more sure that next year I'll be encouraging Layman to join the Advent Conspiracy (http://www.adventconspiracy.org). What is says is this: we as a people are as selfish and self-centered as we have always been. And it saddens me that we are so “gift”-oriented rather than grace-oriented. Want to get gifts. We want to give gifts because we like the way it makes us feel or we want something in return. Honestly, what guy ever gave his wife lingerie for HER to enjoy?!?

And, in the end, it makes me even more sure that next year I’ll be encouraging Layman to join the Advent Conspiracy (http://www.adventconspiracy.org).

]]> By: keisha http://rhythmva.com/2008/12/yesit-happened/comment-page-1/#comment-21 keisha Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:49:50 +0000 http://rhythmva.com/?p=251#comment-21 All I had to do was look at the headline and I was completely and utterly shocked. I read further that it took place on Black Friday and second thought was that we, as a society in general, are completely OBSESSED with material goods. Obsessed. It's sick. When did anything become more important that humanity? It's worth a human life... for a Christmas bargain? But you know what, I see this all the time...even on very small scales. We make other things more important than people all the time. I'm guilty of it too. When I was robbed in Argentina, I cursed the man who did it...in my thoughts. I was angry, and I understand that anger is justifiable because its ok to hate sin, in this case stealing. But it doesn't matter whether or not what he did was right or wrong. My heart said that my money that he took from me was more important than he was. My actions showed that. Even if it was just in my thoughts. I could have responded so much better. Maybe what happened at Wal Mart on Black Friday is merely a sympton of a much deeper issue. We need to get our priorities straight...even in the smallest, seemingly insignificant ways that no one sees. All I had to do was look at the headline and I was completely and utterly shocked. I read further that it took place on Black Friday and second thought was that we, as a society in general, are completely OBSESSED with material goods. Obsessed. It’s sick.

When did anything become more important that humanity? It’s worth a human life… for a Christmas bargain?

But you know what, I see this all the time…even on very small scales. We make other things more important than people all the time. I’m guilty of it too. When I was robbed in Argentina, I cursed the man who did it…in my thoughts. I was angry, and I understand that anger is justifiable because its ok to hate sin, in this case stealing. But it doesn’t matter whether or not what he did was right or wrong. My heart said that my money that he took from me was more important than he was. My actions showed that. Even if it was just in my thoughts. I could have responded so much better.

Maybe what happened at Wal Mart on Black Friday is merely a sympton of a much deeper issue. We need to get our priorities straight…even in the smallest, seemingly insignificant ways that no one sees.

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