We impatiently waited in the long line at the grocery store, more than ready to go home. I had my piano lesson in a few minutes, and the store was packed out. When we were finally making some progress in the line, one of the machines started complaining and not functioning properly. We kept waiting in that particular line, it was the smallest line, after all, hoping to have the issue resolved soon. We waited more, and some more. Yet the problem wasn't resolving. Employers were called up to that checkout line, as other workers opened up some more lanes.
We quickly walked to a newly opened line, and waited behind a man and his young daughter. His energetic daughter, with a wide smile chattered away to her father, asking him, "why are there people in the store?" She was only about 3, or 4, and had the cutest blond wavy hair. Within seconds of waiting in the newly opened checkout lane, however, the man turned around to us and invited us to go ahead of him in the lane. We politely turned down his offer, pointing out that he only had a few groceries, and we had quite a few. Yet he insisted that we went before him, so we finally accepted, thanking him for his graciousness.
As we tossed our groceries on the checkout counter, I happened to glance behind me, catching this gentleman talking to the lady behind him. After a few seconds the woman's face light up, and he scooted his cart and daughter to the side as she slipped ahead of him in the line. Because he had a young daughter with him, even though she was gracious about letting others go first, it must have been hard for the girl to wait to get home. All in all, the lines moved more quickly after that, and the man and his daughter left the store only about two minutes behind us. Yet they put smiles on our faces, and a message in our hearts. Couldn't we do the same? Couldn't we be more patient, wait just two minutes more, in order to do WWJD? Wouldn't we want the same done to us? 'Do unto others as you would have done to you' may come to mind, and it's what we should do. We should always be aiming to be more like Jesus. Though we can't, obviously, come close to how perfect Jesus is, we can still try to be.
Kayla Joy
