Q Crashing

I've made it through month 1.  Here are some pics with me with the same clothes. The damage.  Shoes held up. Blue Jeans are a little more frayed on the end, but otherwise fine. Basketball shorts are near indestructible. My green button up shirt has a bleach stain on the bottom left.  I can rock a bleach stain.  Even at a city wide prayer breakfast.  My blue t-shirt has held up like a champ, even through my constant abuse. My green t-shirt  now has a convenient ventilation system right in my left arm pit. But the brown pants have taken the brunt of the damage.  Right side pocket has hole in it.  The right seam are coming unraveled at the pocket.  And a left belt loop and auto tightener have both snapped. The lessons. Clothes can easily become about impressing people more than anything else.  It is amazing how much unfair labor happens to produce clothing that we buy.  A pair of pants that cost $100 dollars is 3 w...

So me and Audge, along with Alec and Holleigh, read this amazing book by Jen Hatmaker that focused on fighting excess in our life and using that as a tool to fast and pray.  For 7 months Jen stripped down different areas of her life.  So me, Audge, Holleigh, and Alec all decided to put 7 to the test.   Month 1 is clothes.  We picked 7 articles of clothing to wear for the month.   Here is mine. 1 pair of blue jeans, my brown pants, shoes, 2 t-shirts, a button up work shirt, and a pair of basketball shorts.  I want to take the month to focus my prayers on the people throughout the world who don't have clothes and shoes available to them.  This became real, when on the first day our staff at the Eugene Mission had a discussion on the lack of men's pants and t-shirts we had available for our guest.  I thought about all the clothes sitting in my closet during this month.   So this morning I picked out some t-shirts I was...