Black Friday

The reason that today is called Black Friday has to do with old accounting practices where transactions were recorded in red ink while the stores were still operating at a net loss but Black Friday was the first time of the year that they would begin turning a profit and could start entering transactions in the black ink. Like most stores, humanity had been operating at a loss and incurring debt after debt with no chance of getting out of the red and into the black. But on the very blackest of black Fridays, Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, descended into the very darkest depths of Hell to pay out all of humanity's debts with the red ink of His precious blood. In fact, in the Americas, on the day the Savior died to pay our debts, it was literally a Black Friday, with a darkness so black that they could not even kindle any fires. Christ descended into the blackness so that we could walk in the light. Black Friday is full of discounted prices, but the power of the Savior's Atonement is absolutely free. And we don't have to wait for a certain day of the year to get access to the Savior's Grace and forgiveness, but can seek it every day of the year.