I went into QuikTrip today to get a $.39 fountain pop (Thank you Jesus for those prices!). When I got back there, I noticed a very well-dressed woman. She looked like she could be an executive or a lawyer. She had on a ladies business suit. But she had no hair. None. No eyebrows. No facial hair at all.
She obviously was undergoing some sort of treatment for some kind of medical issue (probably cancer). It made me think.
I go through life most of the time with tunnel vision. I am all about me 100% of the time. But sometimes, God throws something or someone in your path to remind you that life is a lot bigger than the small circle you walk around in.
There are people all around us every day with incredibly difficult problems and struggles. Most of the time we don't see it. The lady at QuikTrip wasn't hiding it.
A lot of people spend a lot of energy trying to cover up their issues. But we all have them. If we would just remember that there are hurting people, desperate people, needy people that are nearby...I think that could change your life.
Just open up your eyes. You don't have to look very far. People in crisis that are all around us.
Instead of seeing the person ahead of you as a "jerk" because of how they are driving...maybe think about that person's marriage and what problems he or she may be having. Instead of being irritated at Wal Mart because the lady in front of you in line has 18,000 items...why don't you think that maybe she got the check she had been desperately waiting on and now she can finally get all the groceries she had been wanting to get to feed her family.
People aren't here on earth to annoy you. People are here because God loves them and desires that all of them know His Son. If we would just open up our eyes and see people from God's vantage point...it could rock our world.
Next time you get a fountain pop at QuikTrip...look around and see who's next to you. Maybe someone with some big time life issues that you could pray about.
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