How often does this
happen, someone returns kindness for an act of kindness? It’s not something
that happens very often, people might thank you and go on their merry way
thinking to themselves how kind you were, but to repay that act with another
act is very rare indeed!
I went to the grocery
store and did some quick shopping, all the while with a million things on my
mind. Finished and went to the checkout counter piling what I thought was all
the stuff in my cart on to it. Got rung up, packed up, paid up and went out to
my car putting all my bags in the trunk. Then as I looked down at the shopping
cart while I pushed it back to where the carts are kept, I noticed I had
forgotten to pay for something, nothing very valuable, just a pack of pocket
combs I’d picked up for my husband.
First thought is it’s only
a little over a dollar, so I should just keep it, but that didn’t sit very
well, so I decided that since I had to use the ladies room anyway, I’d just go
back in and pay for it. So that’s what I did.
So I’m standing in the
self checkout line waiting my turn because only two out of four were open, the
other two were being worked on. I noticed a young woman come up next to me
pushing a stroller with a cute little baby in it, she’s only got a couple of
things in her hands, so I let her go ahead of me. She rings up her stuff, bags
and pays for it and as she’s leaving says to me “oh you can keep the change”. I
reply that she might need it for the baby, but she just says “keep it” as she
walks away! It’s only 51 cents, so I thank her and use it to pay for my combs.
As I left the store I was
amazed at the way things went, I showed her a small act of kindness and she
returned it with another act of kindness! It’s not as hard as we think to show
the world a little of God’s love!
