Friday, October 25, 2019

Kindness Returned for Kindness



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!

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