I was sent off on a mission today by my husband to finally buy a printer. We have been without one for 7 or 8 years. I also needed a new cord for my laptop. The bill was going to be somewhat pricey. As I was checking out a lady pulled her cart behind me with cat food. As I am just getting over a fast of media, I noticed her. I smiled at her and something was pulling me toward looking toward her. Before I would probably have been emailing or facebooking and too busy to notice her. She placed her 2 things of cat food up on the belt behind my items. It was then that I felt this amazing feeling saying, "Pay for her cat food," in my head. I thought to myself why would I pay for her cat food? Then I felt it again, "I am serious, pay for her cat food." This is when I thought maybe God is trying to communicate with me. I thought back to God, "Look God I can't just offer to pay for someone's cat food, she is going to think I am a nut case, or slap my hand away if I try to grab it." I am normally too distracted to be reached I am realizing. I thought God doesn't talk to me like this, He doesn't talk to ordinary people like me. I must be reading too many bible studies and christian books, my mind is finally completely off it's rocker. That's when I noticed her start to dig through her purse. She had that look I have sometimes when I can't find my debit card (my purse is usually too messy) she started looking through pockets and looked panicked. I heard her whisper over to her husband, my wallet is not in here, I can't find it. That's when I heard it again, "see, pay for the cat food." So I reached over as the cashier had just finished ringing me up and grabbed the cat food and said ,"this to."
The lady looked at me with shock on her face and said, "no that's mine."
I said "I know it is, it's ok!!"
She replied "no, this can't happen, there aren't nice people in the world, why would you do this for me?"
Without trying to sound totally crazy I tried explaining, "I know this is going to sound crazy, but I felt even before you started digging through your purse that God was telling me to pay for your cat food and I didn't get it."
She said back, "I must have your name so I can pay you back, you should be on the news!"
I told her, "My name is Ginnie, but you don't have to pay me back, just thank God because He told me to!" With that she had tears in her eyes and we hugged and her husband came over and hugged me as well. I turned to leave. I got to my car, unloaded my purchases and sat there in tears myself just praying and crying and thanking God for using me to help someone else. I am so humbled by the way he works!
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