Clothes, a Spiritual Discipline

Clothing is important but we may make them too important. Their purpose is to cloth the body and keep the body warm or cool--depending on the season of the year. Clothes do not make the person. Clothes are best if simple and have not put a burden on others, usually the poor of other countries, to produce them. I wish more of us would check the clothing labels and discern where the item was made. They may hve been made in sweat shops and by children in poor countries and our purchase is supporting that practice. When any type of clothing is purchased it would be a healthy spiritual practice to give a comparable piece of clothing to a charity. It has been said that if we really wanted to know what greed looks like, we might look in our closets. Clothing ourselves and families is a spiritual discipline.