BACK STORY:
I had the occasion to go to down to Fredericksburg last week. I do this periodically when I'm having a shopping Jones. Make the ten minute run down south to visit the most AWESOME store in the WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD ..... Kirklands. I'm very fond of Kirklands, because it is in the middle of secularville and has the most AWESOME selection of spiritual and scriptural gifts for the home! LOVE IT!!! I put my name on their little list, so they e-mail me coupons in my inbox!!! Woo!Woo! This is unbelievable, because their prices are already incredibly below everywhere else I frequent. Yep ..... very fond of Kirklands.
Well, I was just in a browsing moment, so, when I got my necessary fill, I got back in my truck and headed across the street to Long John Silvers --- note that I was browsing no longer!!!! Hit the drive thru and headed home happy .....
FRONT STORY:
All day long I had been in battle with God ..... I would have answered to the name Jacob on that day... my Genesis reference. Not fighting against Him, you understand, but definitely locked in battle with Him. I was in the middle of a dissertation about giving and receiving, blessings and the promises of God. Not that I needed to remind Him of what He has said, but diarrhea of the mouth none the less. I came up to the turn I need to make to get back on I95 and was behind a panel truck. I couldn't see the light or anything in front of me, so I had to put my trust in the hands of the driver in front of me about when to go. The light turned green and traffic began to flow. Almost immediately I saw a gentleman standing on the curb holding a homeless sign. I had money laying in the middle console that all I had to do was stop, hit the auto roll down on the window and give it to him. Easy enough right???
Now, you can call me Peter ..... I took my eyes off of the blessing and immediately went through the hostility I would create in the drivers behind me if I did what I knew was the right thing to do, so I drove on. God said nothing ..... I said nothing ..... UGH!!!
Enter I95 on ramp ..... exit I95 and back to the intersection!!! Good redemption plan, right?
The guy was NOWHERE to be seen!!!! WHAT THE HECK? Couldn't God have just let me known the guy had walked away? What the heck was the return trip for? I didn't actually have to do my keystone cop loop da loop for God to know I was going to go back ..... because I did ..... and He knew I was going to .....
Back to the I95 on ramp!
Without ever pondering the infamous WWJD, I knew instantly the answer, of course. Jesus would have done the right thing the first time negating the need for the return trip? But, then I thought what would Jesus really do in this situation? Would He just give the man the money? Or, would He have shown the guy how to get a job to not be in this situation again? Do bandaids ever help on blunt force trauma? I don't know ..... Is a temporary fix efficient? I don't think so.
Maybe .... I need to get a little bit away from the generalization of WWJD and seriously consider What Jesus Would Really Do.
Just sayin' .....
Kalena in Traffic
Oh and by the way ..... back at the same intersection yesterday ..... there was my gentleman holding his sign .....
On my word, brought traffic to a dead stand still during a green light and gave the man the money I had promised to carry with me until I saw him again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
