No Black Friday & No Cyber Monday by Marian Casillas, Ed.D.

 

No Black Friday & No Cyber Monday

After such a beautiful national holiday as “Thanksgiving Day”, a day dedicated to being grateful to God for all the blessings He has so generously bestowed upon us as a country, it is unfortunate that what should follow are two days called, “Black Friday” and “Cyber Monday”. 

These days are solely devoted to selling and shopping for things, not necessarily because we need those things, but solely because those things are on sale and we are made to feel that we need to have those things, because those things are at such bargain prices that we cannot possibly pass up such great deals. 

Commercialism and consumerism has commandeered these days, let’s take them back and make them Christ-centered days instead. Let us be Christocentric and not egocentric.

What’s with all the hype about “Black Friday” and “Cyber Monday”? 

“Black Friday” is the day after “Thanksgiving Day” and “Cyber Monday” is the day after the Thanksgiving Weekend. 

These days have been hijacked, taken over and become totally commercialized and secularized beyond recognition. 

The beautiful meaning of expressing gratitude to God for all the blessings bestowed and the original purpose of Thanksgiving is lost to the shopping frenzy of “getting things” instead of “giving thanks”.

These days enable and embolden the shopaholics with “consumerism gone wild” to spend to their hearts content and their pocketbooks discontent. 

This sets the stage for commercialism, consumerism and secularism to further become immortalized throughout the holiday season starting with Thanksgiving and going on until Christmas to further dilute their true meaning.

We should boycott, and as an equal exclusive opportunity, also “girlcott”, “Black Friday” and “Cyber Monday”. 

We should refrain from shopping frantically and frenzied on those days; instead let us have a change of heart, mind and soul and make it a “Faith-filled Friday” and a “Christ-centered Monday”.

Let us say “NO to Black Friday & NO to Cyber Monday” and say “YES to FAITH-FILLED FRIDAY & YES to CHRIST-CENTERED MONDAY”. 

On “Faith-filled Friday” be filled with faith in God and on “Christ-centered Monday” keep Christ in Christmas.

 

Marian Casillas, Ed.D.