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Counting Your Mixed Blessings – Slow Shopping Season Might Not Be All Bad

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Friday, November 27, 2009   

CHARLESTON, WV - The Christmas shopping season officially kicked off after Thanksgiving, and while many economists predict a weak shopping season this year, some people think that might be a blessing. According to a poll done for the Associated Press, more than ninety percent of Americans plan to cut back on their spending in 2009. Although that may mean a slower economic recovery, some faith leaders in West Virginia say it's not entirely bad news. They say it might help people focus on what's really important.

Rev. James Ealy is the minister of the New Covenant Baptist Church on Charleston's West Side, a church with a number of young families. He tells his congregation not to try to find happiness in consumption.

"How many of the young kids would just like to walk down the street with you? Dad, mom, if you would share your love and your time with them, you will have given them more than they'll ever know."

Ealy admits changing attitudes is hard. He says a lot of the young people are subject to enormous peer pressure.

"When it comes to buying tennis shoes and stuff like that, today's school kid is kind of rough on the other school kids. It doesn't much matter what you tell them, they're going do what they think they need to do."

Ealy hopes the message gets through this year, he says.




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