Morrison's Breakfast

This very week I wrote about our need to be careful with our money in the light of large companies’ avarice. I bought a meal at William Morrison’s on Monday morning ahead of a train journey before which I had time to kill. I purchased one, small cooked breakfast and a refillable mug of tea, which I thought good value. But see some of the ‘special offers’ available, above. If they were not merely printing errors, one would intelligently prefer to buy two breakfasts separately, and not together, for the sake of a pound. The Lord spoke of smart business acumen in Luke 14:27-29:

For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him.

"Obviously!", we say. Yet He had immediately, before this, taught:

And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

Bearing a cross? That which is shameful, heavy, dirty and destructive? This is what being a Christian involves? Can it all really be worth it? Yes, for-

Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it. Luke 17:33