My wife and I have a system for buying groceries.

She has the list and shopping cart and I’m the “runner”. She gives me 2-3 items to find and off I go.  I bring those items to the cart and she gives me 2-3 more items to get and so on.

We were working our system at Meijer last Monday and everything went according to plan.

At the checkout I put two little containers of red raspberries in a bag and into the rack located at the back and bottom of the cart.

At Meijer there’s a pop dispenser located about halfway across the front of the store and (unfortunately) near the end of my checkout aisle. In front of the pop dispenser is a black mat with holes in it – holes about the size of a red raspberry.

You’re ahead of me, aren’t you?

One of the red raspberry containers fell out of the bag, hit the floor, and 20 or more berries rolled onto the mat and into the holes! I couldn’t have created a more interesting mosaic if I’d tried!

So I got down on the floor and picked the berries out of the holes and put them back in the container. I think it took an hour to get them all picked up – or least that’s what it seemed like with people looking at me!

Humility finds us in the most interesting ways!

Blessings,

Pastor Mark