Wednesday, December 06, 2006
What's on your Christmas list?
These are just some interesting facts to think about as you do your Christmas shopping.
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Cost of a Playstation 3 - $599
Average household income of residents in rural China, the country where many PS3s are manufactured - $400
1 carot diamond ring - $5000
Average yearly wage in Sierra Leone, home of some of the worlds largest diamond mines - $500
HP 42" plasma screen HDTV - $1499
Average yearly wage in Ethiopia, where there is 1 TV station and 1/100 people own a TV - $700
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It's not my intention for this to be some self-righteous "shame on you for buying stuff for Christmas" post. As I am confronted with statistics like these, I honestly don't know what to think, how to act, or how I should change the way I live. As I think about all I will give and get for Christmas, my heart is heavy and deeply moved by the reality of such unimaginable poverty on such a large scale.
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www.donaldmillerwords.com has a cool idea for Christmas and if they get thier church to do it, who says everyone cant?
Good stuff, Geoff. My heart is heavy as well this season...not sure how I can go about the usual "business" of Christmas, knowing the faces and names of the men who sleep in the ditches in Gulfport.
God has put a name (names, actually) on poverty for me and I'm sitting here in my nice warm house, Christmas decorations strewn about me, looking at a bare tree and wondering if I can do this at all...so much of what I've always considered "important" at Christmas just seems silly right now.
Is Geoffery gone forever
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