dar334

This afternoon I stopped in the local party store and picked up a muffin and a bottle of soda.  The total was $2 and some cents and I gave the cashier $5.00.  I noticed a coffee can sitting on the counter with a hole cut in the plastic top and the top taped shut with a picture of a family on it.  The plea was that the family had lost everything in a house fire and a donation was being taken to help them.  When the cashier handed me back my change of $2 and some cents I put it all in the can.  After all, if that $2 and some cents is going to break me, I shouldn’t be buying the muffin and a soda right?

After leaving with my goodies I remembered a time when I had done that same thing and the person behind me told me they never put money in a can at any checkout counter because they don’t know that there is in fact a need, there was a possibility that the owner of the can was using the money for beer or drugs.

Now this is where my pondering began.  If you believe in God and that Jesus Christ is our savior, and if you’ve read the Bible or even heard the words “Book of Life”, then you know that when the book is opened at your arrival in heaven, there will be an accountability of all the things you have done, good or bad, that were worthy of being written in said book.  I’m not risking the chance that when said book is opened there will be written in it “Darlene did not help a family in need at the local party store.”  The chance that I will take is that when the owner of the can, if they deceived me, arrives in heaven and the book is opened, it will say “You deceived my children by putting a can in the local party store saying there was a family that had a fire that burned their house causing them to lose everything when in fact, you were using the money to buy beer or drugs.”

As a matter of fact, I politely told the person behind me in line that day that I was willing to take that chance.  Because if there was a 1% chance that food or clothing would be bought for a family burned out of their home, I was going to take that chance.

While I’m on the subject, those of you who don’t believe there is a God and a heaven, the chance you are taking is a big one.  Because if, when I die, there isn’t a God and a heaven, I will have lost nothing.  You, on the other hand, have lost eternity in paradise, and I hope you like the heat.

Always pondering,

dar