It was a muggy day…a depressing day for all. The kind of day where you just want to lay around in your pajama’s all day and do nothing. Instead of laying around, I decided to do some grocery shopping while the stores were not crowded.
As I entered through the checkout line to pay, I noticed a young woman there who seemed depressed and sad. Perhaps it was the day, perhaps it was more. She didn’t seem talkative. I made light conversation and didn’t get any response.
But I kept trying. Finally she started chatting and we had a lovely conversation about nothing. But, when I left her line, there was a smile on her face. A beautiful smile.
She will never know that I’m Christian.
She’ll never know who I am or what Jesus has done in my life, but it doesn’t matter.
Sometimes, being a faithful servant isn’t about forcing a conversation about God. It’s about truly and genuinely investing in other people’s lives, even if it’s a brief moment.
My goal in life is to always leave people better off for having met me, whether I know them for 5 seconds or 5 years.
Our attitudes, the way that we present ourselves to the world matters. We affect other people and yet how often do we shirk that responsibility? How often are we so self-absorbed that we don’t take time to notice those around us?
You don’t have to be Mother Teresa to change the world….you can do it every time you go to the store….
One smile at a time.
My question to you is, are you shirking that responsibility?
Life gets busy, I get it. I’m a mom of two who runs several different empires. Life gets REAL busy, but we should never be TOO busy to show God’s love to others, even if they will never know the reason we share that love.
God’s love is not to be locked up inside of us, never to be shown except for rare occasions or in certain situations. It’s FOR ALL to see at all times!
