Unexpected Blessing at Walmart

 

Four years ago, Kathy and I had an unexpected blessing at Walmart.  Our church was gathering food for our missionaries in Venezuela, Jason and Sarah Sykes.  My wife picked up 2 pounds of rice and put it in the cart.  I picked up another one and added it to the cart.  Kathy got powdered milk.  I put it back and got the giant sized one.  And then we both got into the spirit of giving.  It was great!  I thought of how we in America are blessed and how Jason’s people in Venezuela have so little.  Then I found two solar landscaping lights that were marked down, reminding me that we had to get our own stuff.  Finally, our cart was full.  But the check-out lines were backed up, so I went to the self-check-out kiosk.  A big mistake.  I scanned and bagged all of the Venezuela stuff, but the scanner locked up at the discounted solar lights.  The attendant tried to help, but she put in the wrong code and she got locked out.  Her supervisor tried to help, but she couldn’t.  She said, “I’ll just have to reboot the computer.”  The frustrated attendant motioned me over to her check-out station and finished scanning the rest of my stuff.  It came to $32.  I said, “But you didn’t get the other things that I already had rung up.”  She shrugged and said, “Thank you for shopping at Walmart.”  I began to protest, but she glared and said through her teeth, “Thank you for shopping at Walmart.”  She was obviously done with me.  So, Jason and Sarah got their food for free … $62 worth of free food!  Philippians 4:19, “But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”  To quote the Walmart attendant, “Thank you (dear Lord) for shopping at Walmart.”