November 9, 2010

  • Stopping for a Drink

         Each stood filling drinks politely at the convience store located on an interstate in a city. Neither knew the other as either could be local or passing through. Yet, one had on something medical which prompted the other to ask medical information from the one.

         "What if this. this. and this happens? Could it be this?" asks the one filling her drink  up with Dt. Coke and ice.

         "Yes, it could be. Plus, if you do this, this, and that it could trigger even more of this or that. Why?  Because I pray over this situation for myself. Who has time to be sick or down to get it dealt with?," replied the one who was pouring cherry flavor into her Dt. Mountain Dew to turn it red with flavoring. No ice for her due to she did not like diluted drink or much of other things in life. She liked her faith strong also without the dilution of worry or fret. Yet, she knew too well how easily it creeps in.

         "So true, I don't want to admit to it either as I pray for it and claim the verses of healing the Word of God gives. There are just times it acts up and you pointed out my diet mistakes, I did not even realize I had made today. I'm driving a truck from Chicago to ..........., " she replied as the crowd's hum around the counter overwhelmed her last few words. Yet,  her eyes smiled in realizing she had met someone similiar to her in faith and recieved an encouragement that she needed.

         "Jesus still uses Doctor's in amazing ways and you will know the time to see one out one out as our bodies tend to act up and our faith has its moments. Your drink is mine to get tonight as you pass through. One can have encouraging words but actions to go along can mean more to ones heart that encourages one even more as we walk in faith." offered the one as she pulled the cash from a flowered flat wallet pulled from a pocket. She knew she was to do it as she positioned her ahead of her Sister in Faith traveling along this road tonight.  The casheir smiled as she had been catching a bit of the last interchange between the two of her customers.

         The crowd pushed them apart as they parted with a smile. There is a time when enough words are said as strangers pass in an intersection of life that warms both of them with faith in how Jesus can arrange our lives. It would have been so easy not to have made that first smile that opened up the opportunity for the question to be asked. It was an encouraging moment for both of them. The one had been praying on her way to work to be used to encourage another tonight. She realized she was a few minutes early and for some reason she felt thristy and to stop for a drink.

         As she sat back down in her car she opened her hand to put the change away. She had questioned the cashier about the change due to it felt wrong but the cashier smiled with a smiling nod and a wink. The cashier had given us both a discount with the drinks. There was three in that fellowship meeting with one already at work behind the counter. A blessing that warmed more than two in a few minutes of time.

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