2009 Christmas Exultations From The Mailbag
A few Christmas comments we received this season:
From Shane in New Zealand:
Just watched the movie What Would Jesus Buy? and thought it was great!
My family this year did not buy presents we just visited friends and shared a lunch together as a family.
Please keep up your good work and god bless
Regards,
Shane
Dan in Kansas writes:
I just watched What Would Jesus Buy? and was thoroughly embraced by a warm and holy feeling.
I would like to inform you of my attempt to celebrate my first shopping-free Christmas. I have informed friends and family that I will only accept home-made gifts and will only be giving the same (art, music mixes, food preserves). Although I always try to give meaningful and creative gifts, I always seem to receive products made in third world countries.
In the movie Savitri voices frustration that it seems you are not making a difference. I assure you, you are! Perhaps you aren't getting through to the true shopaholics, but preaching to the choir is important. I often feel alienated from this society, as though I am the extremist, as if caring where a product is made and the effects of purchasing it have is irrational. After getting to know you all I feel as though I am part of a movement. A holy crusade of conscious consumerism!
Now I must preach to my mother, a queen shopaholic. The domino effect is at work here.
Keep up the holy crusade.
Love and blessings,
Dan
Alex in Colorado writes:
I just finished watching "What Would Jesus Buy". I have to commend you for your courage and taking a stand against injustices and other bad things that human beings have brought upon each other. It's unfortunate that good things, such as Christmas, get manipulated and twisted because of our greed. You are on the right path and what you are doing is making a difference. I'm sure there are times when it feels hopeless. Don't give up. You are our voice. You are making a difference. I thank you for your hard work in shedding light on this subject. I will do my part to spread the message. Keep up the fight! Hallelujah!
Have any more Christmas stories to share? Send 'em in or leave a comment below!
From Shane in New Zealand:
Just watched the movie What Would Jesus Buy? and thought it was great!
My family this year did not buy presents we just visited friends and shared a lunch together as a family.
Please keep up your good work and god bless
Regards,
Shane
Dan in Kansas writes:
I just watched What Would Jesus Buy? and was thoroughly embraced by a warm and holy feeling.
I would like to inform you of my attempt to celebrate my first shopping-free Christmas. I have informed friends and family that I will only accept home-made gifts and will only be giving the same (art, music mixes, food preserves). Although I always try to give meaningful and creative gifts, I always seem to receive products made in third world countries.
In the movie Savitri voices frustration that it seems you are not making a difference. I assure you, you are! Perhaps you aren't getting through to the true shopaholics, but preaching to the choir is important. I often feel alienated from this society, as though I am the extremist, as if caring where a product is made and the effects of purchasing it have is irrational. After getting to know you all I feel as though I am part of a movement. A holy crusade of conscious consumerism!
Now I must preach to my mother, a queen shopaholic. The domino effect is at work here.
Keep up the holy crusade.
Love and blessings,
Dan
Alex in Colorado writes:
I just finished watching "What Would Jesus Buy". I have to commend you for your courage and taking a stand against injustices and other bad things that human beings have brought upon each other. It's unfortunate that good things, such as Christmas, get manipulated and twisted because of our greed. You are on the right path and what you are doing is making a difference. I'm sure there are times when it feels hopeless. Don't give up. You are our voice. You are making a difference. I thank you for your hard work in shedding light on this subject. I will do my part to spread the message. Keep up the fight! Hallelujah!
Have any more Christmas stories to share? Send 'em in or leave a comment below!
Christmas 2009 from Allison in Pasadena, California
Thank you for your good work, and great film What Would Jesus Buy? My gifts to family this year included two photographs I took and gifts in their names to World Vision: soccer balls, medicine for children, and mico loans to single mothers. There are few reminders in our current culture of the humanity of Christmas--your work is a relief in this Bosch-like vision of hell, brought to you by WalTargetDisneybucks.
I will help you spread your gospel of Life After Shopping. There will come a time when we will reject the artifical light of a megastores and step outside to the sunshine--leaving behind the bags, goods made by children, and things we don't need in the consumerist coffin.
Changealluah Brother, we will need it for 2010.
Sincerely,
Allison H.