It all started with an envelope in the mail.
Inside were two Aldi gift certificates and a card with simple but powerful words: Your heavenly Father knows. Thank you. You know who you are.
And then there was an email from another friend asking if we would like another Aldi gift certificate. Thank you. You know who you are.
Guess God owns some serious shares of Aldi stock!
During my first Aldi run, the man behind me was using a gift certificate, but only had about $15 worth of merchandise for his $25 certificate.
"Sir, I can't give you any cash back and you still have $10 left on the gift certificate."
"Well, I don't want any cash back."
"But Sir, why don't you just go buy yourself some meat or something?"
"Nah...... Hey! Can I just give the lady behind me the rest of the certificate?"
"Uh...." Calls the manager over. "This guy wants to give that lady the rest of his gift card. Can we do that?......No, Sir. We can't do that."
Everyone stands around looking at each other.
Well, I couldn't help myself, now could I?
Me: Well, how about if you just ring up that lady's groceries along with his and just let this guy go on his merry way with his groceries?
The manager smiles. The cashier smiles. The guy smiles. The lady smiles. I smile.
And then I nearly start crying. I guess because I witnessed a simple act of goodness that almost didn't happen. Then, while I was still joyful about that random kindness, as I was loading my groceries into my van, a hippie man came up to me and wanted to take my cart. Upon seeing my 40 lb bag of softener salt, he kindly said, May I? Then proceed to load it up for me.
If every day were an Aldi day, we'd give out of our abundance to those who are in need. We wouldn't need unemployment because those making extra would give generously to those not having enough. We wouldn't buy more just because we could, but we'd pay for the person behind us just because. If every day were an Aldi day, we'd help one another without thinking about how we might be inconvenienced.
And we'd do it with a smile.
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4 comments:
I believe that Aldi is a little slice of heaven. :-) Not just because of all we can get for less, but because almost every single time I have gone there in the past two months, there has been some random act of kindness...not just to us but little things between others I have noticed.
Love your post!
My turn to say... WOW! Great post, brought me to tears, yes an actual emotion ;0)
Loves me some Aldi. I like the thought of an "Aldi day". I think I'll steal that. Hope it's a great one for you.
I love it when God does super cool things like that! I have a lot of good moments at the grocery store too, must be a favorite place of Gods. LOL
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