A spider had been living in my car for two weeks. He was a smart one, moving quickly and coming out in the dark to taunt us with his sticky webs. On this particular day we planned to make a grocery run in my spider mobile. My girls had been pushing each other's buttons from the moment they woke up and I decided they needed to sit in separate areas of the car. My oldest did not like the spot I chose for her and protested that the spider was going to attack. By the time we reached the store I was ready for some quiet alone adult time, which was not to be found while on a grocery run. The store was packed and shelves were empty. I zigzagged between customers, workers, shelves and carts, dragging my youngest by the hand and hoping my oldest could keep up with the cart behind us. By the time I reached the self checkout and my face read, “Mom maxed out on stress, do not interact.” I was so focused on all that was wrong and how nothing was going right or easy.
Philippians 4:8
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.
At the height of my stress God reached out to bless me. The employee manning the self checkout area, quietly walked over and moved my cart, then started loading my groceries and told me she liked to help people out and to, “Have a blessed day.” This happened over a week ago and I cannot stop thinking of the kindness of this worker. Does this worker know she was my blessing that day? What she did was “excellent” and it was “praiseworthy”, rather than focusing on the negativity of those things that weighed me down I found myself searching for the blessings and wanting to be that blessing to others.
Today look for the excellent and praiseworthy, be the blessing to someone else.
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