Eddie Bauer files Chapter 11 bankruptcy - is nothing sacred?

June 17, 5:24 PMChristian Worldview ExaminerBill Belew

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Eddie Bauer has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

The company has been around forever, 1920 to be more exact. Details of the filing can be read here, and here.

Some are left to wonder. Is nothing sacred? When icons such as this fall by the wayside, then what? Head for the mall to get deals? Well, maybe, but that's not what I am looking for.

Matthew 6:25-33 applies. "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

 "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

My heart goes out to all the Eddie Bauer folk.