It was a busy Saturday morning. . .in an extremely crowded Giant Eagle Grocery Store.
It was just a quick,
GET IN, GET OUT
kind of an excursion.
(Aren’t they all?)
I went in and got a couple of gift cards and two greeting cards and then. . .
got in a long, a very long 10 items or less line.
There she was,
THE GIANT EAGLE ANGEL
She had a basket full of things. . .many different
E L E V E N T H I N G S
and then it happened. . .
She looked at what I was holding in just one hand and said,
“Sir, why don’t you go in front of me. I’m in no hurry and you just have some gift cards.”
I, protested at first and told her it wasn’t such a big deal, but she insisted and so,
NOT TO INSULT HER
I took her up on her offer and thanked her profusely.
. . .And then,
B A M
IT HAPPENED.
I told her she had done her good deed for the day and that’s when she shared with me that this had nothing to do with her good deeds so much as her
C A T H O L I C G U I L T
I joked and asked her if she was blaming The Pope on her good deed
and she joked back and told me it was more of the Nuns than The Pope.
I thanked her again for her
good deed
generosity
kindness
fear
guilt. . . .
It made me think about me
It made me think about you
It made me think about us
What ultimately makes us do what we do?
Are the reasons
P U R E
or
Tainted ?
Was this about some kind of weird guarantee of getting a small spot in Heaven
or
Not wearing Asbestos underwear for Eternity?
SHOULD’S = GUILT
OUGHT’S = FEAR
HAVE-TO’S = GUILT/FEAR
WANT-TO’S = RAINBOW’S/POT’S OF ENDLESS GOLD
Some kinds of Choices, huh?
What do you Choose. . .
Or
What really CHOOSES YOU?
Can and Act of Kindness
just be an
A C T OF KINDNESS ?
(It Can. . .until. . .it CAN’T
Hmmmmmmmm of the Day:
Sometimes the higher The Eagle Ascends, not only the Closer to Heaven,
BUT the Bigger the Splat of the White Stuff that always finds your Windshield. . . .
IF YOU’RE HELPING SOMEONE AND EXPECT SOMETHING IN RETURN
IS IT
B U S I N E S S
or
K I N D N E S S
?