We are going to start occasionally posting a new series entitled "What Would You Do?" to get different perspectives on how to handle difficult situations that we find ourselves in. Some might try to end the discussions with the response that it is only a matter of differing cultures. However, we find ourselves in conversations or events that we feel are a matter of the state of one's inner man rather than the state of one's culture, and feel burdened to do something about it, but in the right way. Yet there are times we just don't know what to do, but staying silent is not the answer. We are trying to find answers in how to confront these issues, not for the sake of argument or complaint, but to only spread Truth and change of heart. Please be honest and let us know what you think!Imagine you are standing in line to check out at Target. There are only 2 lanes open and there are at least 5 customers waiting in each lane. It's getting late and the store is very crowded. Suddenly the customer in front of you leaves the line with all their items in hand, you watch in order to decide what to do next, and find that this customer is shopping again in another area. You decide that they obviously weren't ready to checkout, they didn't ask you to save their place in line, and so you move up in line. Then as you are just about to check out, the customer cuts in front of the 3 other new customers behind you, uses her items to put distance between you and the desk, doesn't say anything to you, and then begins to squeeze in front of you to be the next one to check out.
Here are a few facts:
- The customer was not with the woman in front of you.
- The customer said she was tired of waiting in line and decided to do more shopping.
- The customer said that she never broke the line.
2 comments:
Our pastor has always said that we are to be kinder than necessary. This convicts me because I typically would tell the shopper that she was not in line and she needed to get to the end and wait her turn. If I were "being kinder than necessary" though, I would have to graciously allow her to go ahead of me and see what God would do with either her or the people in line behind me. Or maybe He would be doing something with me.
"Offer" to let the shopper in front of you. You are thereby being gracious and the shopper may see their ungraciousness as they cut in line.
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