Mid-week musing

Happy mid-week! 

No randoms today…just a small thought on prayer and my hopes for the generations coming behind me. 

I have laughingly said that sometimes I think our grands consider Aldi shopping carts to be a bit of a slot machine. 

We have gotten a free cart every now and again when they accompany me. As I pass it along to the next person, as I promised I would, that one might try to hand us a quarter. 

The little ones and I disagree on accepting this. To me, it is an obvious no…to them there is a moment of hesitation as the recipient seems to insist they keep the quarter. 

On a rare occasion there was no way out but to take it as the giver would walk away…so I would insist we contribute to the first cart in the return area so the next person gets a windfall. 

I can tell they think I am daft. 

Sometimes we walk up and the person ahead of us has just left the quarter in the cart. I take it but use my quarter for the next one in line to be a freebie. 

Same response. 

And so I pray. 

I pray that someday they will understand that we have been so richly blessed that we are not takers but givers. 

I pray they will even consider passing a cart along that they paid for as a free gift to someone. 

I pray that they will one day understand the generosity of God to us and it will be so engrained in them that giving is a joy. 

They are not selfish children. 

They are human. 

So am I. 

A quarter for a cart is easy. 

It is, as they say, a no-brainer.

But how am I when the stakes are higher?

How generous am I with my time for people who try my patience? 

How giving am I when the cost far exceeds a coin I keep in my cup holder for the grocery store?

My measurement isn’t against any other human. 

God, Himself, set the standard by giving everything for the likes of us. 

Something to ponder as we journey another day through Lent <3