Judge not….

Judge not…

In the space of ten minutes I had or saw several things that did not fit my view of how things should be.

I pull into a parking lot. A family in front of me goes in opposite directions. I rightly stopped but the mom was almost intentional in not showing me where she was going with her kid, walking right at me. She is looking at me the whole time. Come on woman! Then her kid steps on the curb and I start rolling.

What I do not realize is that there was also a van waiting to back up. When I started rolling, it accelerated backwards. Fortunately, the driver thought better of it and stopped, there would have been an accident. That sudden acceleration spoke loads to me, did you think you were in the right? Something I would not have done…

Then I go into the sandwich shop. A mom with two kids leave. Lettuce all over the place. Now I can tell you my kids would have been cleaning that up. My kids…

Lady walks in with those ridiculous leggings. Will.Never.Understand.That.

Two more kids come in. One pulls the door into the other while he is halfway in. Now, that is something mine would have done. My kids…

A minute later a woman walks in with a handful of garbage out of her car and puts it in the restaurant’s garbage can. We smiled at each other knowingly. Something else I would not have done…

A man walks briskly into the restaurant leaving his wife 15 feet behind. I am guilty of this, something I should not do…

Then I am reading WIRED while eating. Way too much garbage in here about social movements, including some new form of sobriety that is way cooler than AA, apparently. Shoot me.

Yes, I know what many of you are going to say already. You’ll not say anything new. Go for it!

My thought process the whole time, How does God see each of these people? How can I use this thought on a daily basis? He died for them, rose for them? Do I more intentionally say ‘Hello, hope you have a great day’ ….

God bless!!