Doing Right

“Do not let what

you cannot do

interfere with

what you can do.”

John Wooden

 

A policeman pulled into the fast-food drive thru line to order his lunch.  As he drove up to the window, he was told that the people in the car in front of him had paid for his meal.  They had written, “thank you” and drawn a smiley face on the receipt.  The family drove away, without waiting for a response.

 

Josh Wood was in line to pick up the order he had made to take back to the doctor’s office.  Wood overheard the man in front of him tell the lady behind the counter that he wanted to purchase food, but all he had was $5.  Looking up from his phone, Josh noticed the man was wearing a backpack and appeared to be homeless or having a hard time.  As the lady made suggestions, she also asked the customer what he wanted to drink.  When he hesitated, she told the man to order whatever he wanted because she was paying for his breakfast.  Wood commented, “It would have been so easy to turn around and ask the manager to step in or for help but she didn’t she just said hey it’s on me.  She could have just gave him water and took his money and went on to the next customer and again she didn’t she just did it.  I’ve been through some of the best trainings such as Dale Carnegie and yet a girl named Karina in a Chick-fil-A in Jackson, MS in a 3-minute conversation with a customer has managed to teach me the value of humility and taking care of your customers.”

 

Instead of first asking “How was school?” a mother, in Canada, has begun asking her children, “Who did you help today?’  They now begin their conversations with, “I held the door, helped a friend with math, or asked someone to sit with us at lunch.”  The mother has noticed that her children are also looking for ways to help, even outside of school.

 

May we, too, look for ways to help and then do it.

 

Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.

James 1:22