Month #10 of my shopping fast! Fall is my favorite season. The smells, the colors of the trees. The way it’s cool in the morning and evening but warm during the day. I love the foods that emerge this time of year too – soups and stews, hot chocolate and although I am no fan continue reading »
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Year Without Shopping September
I am now in the ninth month of my buy-nothing adventure. Some things feel easier, some harder. For the most part I have gotten used to not buying things and so in that sense I think I have begun to be reconditioned away from a buy-first approach to my life. On the other hand, there continue reading »
Year Without Shopping August
I am in month 8 of this no new stuff, no shopping, fasting of things thing. In some ways it has been far easier than I thought it would be. I have never been a real shopper so I have not missed it for its own sake. I have a ton more stuff than I continue reading »
i am who you say i am
The other day this moving worship song came on in the car. The words spoke powerfully to me: Who am I that the highest King Would welcome me? I was lost but He brought me in Oh His love for me Oh His love for me Who the Son sets free Oh is free indeed continue reading »
Year Without Shopping July
I have passed the halfway point in my yearlong shopping fast. My family has completed theirs (they signed on to join me for the 1st six months). So as we reached the end of their fast (for which they had a countdown) I asked my girls, who are 8 and 12 respectively, what they thought continue reading »
Year Without Shopping June Update
On Waste and wasting: Today is trash day on my street. I look at the heaps of waste we all push to the edge of our yards for the trucks to haul away next to blue boxes piled high with recycling and I think about how very much we throw away. How much I have continue reading »
Year Without Shopping
Here is what’s been going on with me, my family and our shopping fast aka a year without shopping: I am still noticing the faded, worn and out of date things in my wardrobe, on my shoe rack and in my home. I wonder as I do if I notice more because I cannot replace continue reading »
Year Without Shopping March Update
An update on my year without shopping . . . The power cord conundrum So just some context for this story: My family has agreed to do the shopping fast with me for the first six months. I was standing in the kitchen talking to my family when a shiny new i-phone power cord caught continue reading »
Melanie and the Micah Launch
Here is our intern Melanie Yong’s reflection on last week’s Micah 6:8 Launch: On a cold Sunday morning in March, the Boston Faith & Justice Organization launched our first Service Learning program in partnership with Salvation Army in Malden, MA. It has been a project that we have talked about for months and deliberated over continue reading »
A Year Without Shopping Update
My year without shopping has begun. When I brought the idea of not buying anything for a year to my family my twelve-year-old daughter literally said “this is the worst thing that has happened to me in my whole life . . .” She really likes shopping. Like a lot. Much to my chagrin. continue reading »