What We Need

I was standing in line at Walmart, now all of you know that the lines are long there. Everyone knows this. Well, this particular day a woman a was ahead of me in line by a few places and was very irritated.  She grew irritated enough to lean back and holler,

“What we need is more checkers”

The immediate thought in my head was

“What we need is more patience”

I would never say that out loud!!

Ladies, in our world today everything is someone else’s fault or problem.  Somehow it’s Walmart’s fault that we are in a hurry.  Everyone knows that if you are in a hurry Walmart is NOT the place to go.   But still, as a society most of us do not take accountability for ourselves.

Trying not to melt into self righteous mode and continue to judge this stranger I looked away as I fumed in defense of the cashier.

Then, as  I stood there thinking about So much wrong in our world, I noticed this large display of school supplies next to me…….

WHOA !!  This did NOT help my mood !!

I know this is a promo for some movie out this summer but the irony of this really impacted me. The school spirit is a slimy ghost!!! Wow – isn’t this exactly what a lot of kids think about school anyway?  Our world is in collapse – do I have any answers?  No.

But I have been praying more for teachers since that visit to Walmart.  And I was very nice to the cashier and chit chatted with her to get a smile.

(I probably made everyone in line behind me furious)