Thursday, December 8, 2011

Thanksgiving in the Age of the Pursuit of Stuff!!

Black Friday is over!  In the light of stories like this, maybe we need to reevaluate our weekend.
Black Friday 
Twenty Injured After Woman Uses Pepper Spray on Black Friday Crowd
Published November 25, 2011
FoxNews.com
 
LOS ANGELES -  A mother of three shot pepper spray to keep shoppers from grabbing a video game system she wanted during a Black Friday sale, leaving 20 people with minor injuries, authorities said.
 
The incident occurred shortly after 10:20 p.m. Thursday in a crowded Los Angeles-area Walmart as shoppers hungry for deals were let inside the store.  Police said the suspect shot the pepper spray when the coverings over the item she wanted were removed.  "Somehow she was trying to use it to gain an upper hand," police Lt. Abel Parga told The Associated Press early Friday.  He said she was apparently after an Xbox 360 and used the pepper spray to keep other shoppers at bay.
The store remained open and those not affected by the pepper spray continued shopping.
 
The Associated Press contributed reporting to this story.
 
True Thanksgiving--discover it again this weekend.  One day wasn't enough.

Psalm 100

A psalm. For giving grateful praise.
1 Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth. 
 2 Worship the LORD with gladness; 
   come before him with joyful songs. 
3 Know that the LORD is God. 
   It is he who made us, and we are his; 
   we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving 
   and his courts with praise; 
   give thanks to him and praise his name. 
5 For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; 
   his faithfulness continues through all generations.
 
Take the Lead-Give thanks!
 
The Man in the Window

Bruce D. Rzengota
Norwalk Alliance Church

-- To follow Jesus is to learn to move with God.

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