Some hilarious video of a clip of Sanford and Son camping.
I never watched it when I was a kid, and I still dont to this day. But I found this pretty interesting.
Anyways the reason why I entitled it camping is because my co-workers are planning a trip in the mid-week to go camping with a ton people who work at my Chilis. Sounds like a good time doesnt it?… Not really.
My co-worker party hard and not in a good way. I pray that they dont do stupid things that they will regret for the rest of their lives.
So at the Ricebowl, the Chinese restaurant that I work at, we use plastic bags that say thank you like this.
You have seen them, they are everywhere. They are at the corner stores, dollar stores and mom & pop shops.
I thought to myself as I was watching a customer of ours walk out with a carryout order with Chinese goodness, “Did she feel the thank-you” that was plastered and printed all over the bag. She probably didnt I thought to myself.
Then God spoke to me.
“Are your Thank-You’s genuine?”
My answer: I think sometimes they are and sometimes they arent.
If you work in the service industry (Starbucks, Chilis etc.) its hard to wake up everyday and genuinely appreciate the guests that stroll through your work place and spend money in the business you work in. Some days you wake up and are genuinely excited about saying “Thank-You” with smile ear-to-ear. Some days you wake up and hate each person that walks through those doors, and wonder why they are wasting their money at the place your working at.
But I hate to admit that I am like that with God, its all dependent about how I am feeling. And I dont want it to be, I want to have genuineness with God every time I wake up and speak to him.
And the word that pops up as I write this is: gratefulness
The challenge for me (maybe for you) to really say thank-you to God and really appreciate everything he has done for us, everyday. And I believe as a result I (maybe you) will genuinely say thank-you to everyone that we see and meet and be able to share the genuine love of Christ, this love that has not been withheld from us at all.
I don’t know how many people who read this blog really know me as a human being. According to the map located on the right not many people have met me face to face.
Anyways I am a down to business kind of guy. I don’t really stray away from the business presented. People would say I have no tact and is rude.
Take for example as a server at both Ricebowl and Chilis, I have believed that the guests want to come in and enjoy their food and have great service. As a result I just go about taking care of their needs and not having alot of conversations.
But recently God has definitely been challenging me… In life. He has been asking me to just love. As a result, I have been stepping up my game in being more “social”. So this has gone over to my workplace also, I have definitely been “chatting” more with the guests, also other kinds of people, such as baristas, neighbors and homeless people.
I asked God why do I feel more…human?
He replied I am love. You see we were created in His image, as a result LOVE, should be natural. And as a result I have definitely felt more human, by loving more.
I am a food server at two different Restaurants. I work at a Chinese restaurant called the Ricebowl, I also work for Chilis.
Now I dont know if you know this servers make money off tips, so I make money off tips. My pay at both places is pretty much 3$ per hour plus tips. Yeah its not much.
As a result I look earnestly at each tip I receive, I rejoice when I am given a “good-tip” and am quite turned off when given a “bad-tip”. As a result of my business I begin to “predict” which people will give a good tip and give a bad tip. Factors that come into this judgment are based 90% on color… racist? Yeah I am.
I was convicted yesterday as I was at a sectional meeting for our district. I am not a pastor yet, but I was invited to go with my pastor to this meeting so I went. At this meeting many of the people shared what God was doing in the different areas of their respective ministries. And three to four different people shared about what God was doing in Dearborn, a city filled with Muslim people. And they shared how God was changing the community, how people were coming into these churches and accepting Christ as Savior.
And then I got convicted because these Muslims that these people were ministering were most likely customers I have probably served at the Ricebowl. And to be honest, I didnt exactly serve these Muslims with the greatest of attitudes because of what I got at the end. I didnt share Christ’s love with them, just my love for money. And God was like these are the people you should be showing Christ not based on what you get from these people. God told me that whoever it was whether they gave me a good tip or not I should show the love of Christ.
Eternity Check: Money doesnt matter. Souls do!
Ouch!
God spoke even more in this area when He said to me “I give you my all, when you dont give me your all!”
Do you do the same?
Do you love based on the end results or love because God commaded you to love?
