Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Attitude CHECK!!!

A couple of weeks ago I was at Wal-mart and I was feelin sooo happy and I was JUST in SUCH A GOOD MOOD!!! Really, for no particular reason...I just felt the joy of the Lord in my heart. And there I am shopping, just walkin throught the store like a RAY OF SUNSHINE on dark dreary day for the rest of the world...
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 and I get in line and I'm quietly singing a little song under my breath and the cashier was like, WEEEELLL look at you...singing away....YOUR JUST SOOOO HAPPY!!! And she said like kinda questionin...like I MUST have some good news...like did I just proposed to? Win the lottery? What COULD POSSIBLEY be making me sooooo HAPPPY!?!?!?
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And without missing a beat I just said, Weeelll you know what, GOD IS JUST SOOOO GOOD!!! AND she just looks at me kinda surprised at my response...buuuuuuut I just smile, cuz that honestly and truley is the reason WHY I was feelin soooo happpppy!!! (Trust me, ain't NOBODY been proposin to me!!!;) AND I felt EVEN happier, cuz I felt like by having the joy of the Lord in my heart I was able to be a witness to this cashier at Wal-mart!!!!!!!!!!
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Weeeeeeellll a couple of days later, I found myself at the mall, in NOT quite sooooo good of a mood. Yeah, God is still GOOOOD buuuuuuuut, I was just feelin SLIGHTLY ANNOYED with my brother!!! He had asked me to pick something out for him to give his girlfriend for her birthday cuz he had gotten her this GPS thing for her car but he wanted to give her something girly-girl too, buuuuuut he wasn't about to step foot into the ICING...which my ABSOLUTE favorite store in the whole world for hair accessories....sooooooo he had given me money and told me to pick out something that Liz would like, that wasn't outlandish or wild! He said, "something REALLLY feminine!" I had been thinkin like, okaaaaaaaaay...whats that sayin about ME??? AnywayZ, I took it as, pick out something boring, that I, as in myself would NEVER wear!!! LOLOL
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AnywayZ, turns out that, BIG SURPRISE, my brother didn't like what I had picked out. I'm like, okaaaaaaay I din't get anything bright, its really soft pastel like colors...lacey...whats WRONG with it???  LIZ WOULD NEVER WEAR THAT...its too BIG!!! That thing is HUGE my brother said!!! I'm like okaaaaaaay whatever...I have things that are at least twice the size of that!!!
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Sooooo NOW here I am, at THE ICING, returning it. SO I tell the girl, who happens to see me QUITE often cuz, weeeelll you know, this is my favorite store, so I tell her that I gotta return it. She says, Oh i'm sorry, thats one of our dressy accessories, it can't be returned! I'm like, OH no its ok! I have my RECIEPT!!! I pull it out and show it to her. She says oh I know, buuuut the store has a policy on certain things that we sell, they can't be returned because they are dressy!
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I'm  thinkin like WHAAAAAAAAAT?! Cuz NOW what am I supposed to with this flower, that I would NEVER wear and cost over $10....I'm like...Ummmm...okaaaaay weeeellll...I didn't know  about this policy, NO ONE TOLD ME!!! And she is like, weeeeellll...the policy is printed on the back of ALL our receipts and I'm thinkin, like OKAAAAAAAAY...WHO READS THE BACK OF THEIR RECEIPTS???

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I was beyond annoyed at the moment now...I was soooooooooooo IRRITATED!!!!!! I was TRYING not to be rude buuuuuuuuuut I just couldn't help it...a little HUFF just escaped out of me!!! The girl was like, I'm sorry! I can't return it for you but I'll tell you what, since you have the receipt I'll let you exchange it for something else in the store! I knew she was TRYIN to be helpful, buuuut...I didn't want to buy anything else...I mean I LOVE accessories buuuuut it wasn't in my budget at the moment to be wasting MORE of my money on MORE hair accessories...I mean helllloooo... I have camps, conferences and CRUISES to be saving for...haha!!!
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Sooooooooo I walk away from the counter, letting out another little sigh and HUFFF...and I just hear in my mind, CHECK!!! It was God reminding me...ATTITUDE CHECK!!!! I was like awwwww MAN!!! I'm not really actin very Christian AM I??? AND I come into this store ALL THE TIME!!! AND if I have an ATTITUDE with this girl, even just this ONE time...it could totally tarnish my witness to her at any time in the future! Soooooooo I decided I needed to have an ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT!!!!!!!!!
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I  found some sunglasses that I have been DYING to get buuuuuuut didn't think I should spend the money on them! I thought to myself weeeellll...heeeeeeey I guess this is a good enough excuse to get them NOW annnnnnd...they will be sooooooooo PERFECT for the cruise!!! Sooooo I pick them up and go back to the counter!!!
AND I tell the girl that I'm sorry about the confusion, explain to her about my brother, etc, etc...and she thinks its DUMB that he couldn't come in HIMSELF and pick out something for his girlfriend and I'm like, I KNOW RIGHT?!?! LOLOL! Then I tell her that I had NO idea about the store policy, buuuuut I understand...and she explains to be that its  cause a lot of times people buy stuff to wear just ONE time, like a prom or weddin and then they return it cuz they don't plan on wearing it ever again!!!
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 And I'm like yeah, that makes sense then that the store would make that policy and I'm like YOU KNOW, the reason WHY I probabley HAD ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA about the policy is cuz I have NEVER returned anything to the Icing before!!! I am tellin her that I would NEVER EVEN WANT TO...And I just start chit-chattin with her about how much I LOOOOOVE hair accessories and I start tellin her about how many I have and my vanity in my room...blah, blah, blah!!! And I'm like, YOU KNOW WHAT??? I really wanted these sunglasses ANYWAYZ....soooo I guess this was just a really good EXCUSE for me to buy them.
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Sooooooo NOW this girl has just totallly lightened up and by the time I leave she is smiling and laughin with me like we're OLD FRIENDS!!! Since that time I have been back into that store at least two times, and EVERY time this girl sees me she gets sooooo EXCITED now! She is like OH HI!!! Its good to see you!!! One time she was telling me that they were putting a bunch of stuff on sale and gave me the heads up that a REALLY big sale was going to be coming up but she didn't know the exact date because they don't tell the employees. The last time I went in there she was complimenting me on my hair and how she just doesn't know how to do hers and just told her that it takes practice and I was thinkin the next time I go in there and get to talk to her I should tell her that I can teach her how to do her hair...its COOL...WHO KNOWS what doors God could open?!?!
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Buuuuuuuuut I was thinkin.... what if,  WHAT IF...I had just went ahead and been really rude to that girl that ONE time??? Every time I went in there after that, NO MATTER how chipper or friendly I was, she would ALWAYS remember the way I had acted that ONE time when things hadn't quite gone my way... my witness to her would be TARNISHED!!!
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Does that mean as Christians that we ALWAYS  have to be happy and act PERFECT and that we should NEVER be annoyed????? NO!!!! But we need to remember that there IS a certain way God expects us to act NO MATTER how we are feeling at the moment!!! Sometimes we NEED to have an attitude check...an ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT...and when we do slip...we gotta learn to admit that we were WRONG and be willing to say I'M SORRY!!!!!! Its easy to be happy and joyful and friendly when everything is going our way, but our witness shines even brighter when we STILL act right, when things are NOT going our way.
"Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid."
 (Matthew 5:14)
♥Mary Frances :)