Clarity in the Chaos: Micah 5:2-5a, 6:6-8 - 25th Sunday after Pentecost
I thought it was a joke when my wife told me about the Skims® Advent Calendar marketed and sold by the world’s most famous, plastic surgery-enhanced, celebrity influencer, famous only for being famous, whose name I will not mention here. Unsurprisingly, this “Advent Calendar” has nothing to do with Jesus. It contains 12 gifts to unwrap during the days leading up to Christmas. You can spend hundreds, if not thousands of dollars, to buy such Advent calendars so you can share in the excitement as your favorite social media influencers film themselves unwrapping these “exclusive” gifts. However, many of the influencers who bought the Skims Advent Calendar accuse the celebrity of ripping them off with shoddy, relatively worthless hair ties, key chains, bobby pins, and a squishy containing the exclusive branding. All for the hefty price of $148 (plus shipping). CHAOS by Alby Headrick on flickr. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Mom and Dad never felt ripped off by the Adv...
