Today the Admiral and I had lunch at an inner-city sub shop in a Midwestern city. This is the type of place where you can watch them create your perfect sub. We stood watching the young man place the meat on the bread very slowly. Then the veggie guy puttered along barely speaking loud enough to be heard. Eventually they finished making our sandwich but neither of them knew how to check us out. They muttered to each other for a minute or two. A young woman came out from the back and the guys muttered at her. She looked up, saw us waiting, snapped at the guys, then wandered over and allowed us to pay for our meal. I sat down feeling unwanted and unwelcome.
Why tell you all this?
I tell you because as I watched these two young men fumble around "to serve" us, not really caring that we were there, I felt judgmental and critical. I was irritable about their lack of pride in their work and in themselves. Then the Lord spoke to me. " You are not excellent in all things either. You are being critical of them, yet you haven't been giving your all in each thing you take on. You have taken on too many things to do your best at any of them."
Ouch.
Lord, let me be excellent in each thing that I do. Let me perseve to do my very best as an offering to my holy Father. Lord, give me clear guidance to seek you for each activity, that I might honor you.
2 comments:
Right on there, Lady. What a great lesson for you to have to learn... me, I'll learn it and be reminded right along beside you! Thanks for the reminder
Thanks for the excellent post! ;) And for being an excellent friend.
I've been thinking about the things I do I my life, where do I need to improve in order to do things better. But Excellently, should be my goal. To continually push beyond the everyday ho-hum of life to live excellently sounds like a excellent idea. :)
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