Last week, I had a frazzled moment.
Despite my best planning, the groceries were gone and the day had passed quickly and the kids were getting hangry- so I took them to Burger King for a cheeseburger 🍔. {My littlest guy’s FAVORITE!}
As I am trying to order our lunch, little guy rolls down his window and also attempts to open up his door, so he can talk to the person in the speaker, say hello, and order his own food. Except he was doing so so loudly that they couldn’t hear me ordering, and the line behind us was quickly growing, which as I noticed this made me grow more impatient with him.
We pull up to pay and I roll down his window for him, because it does usually make people’s day in the drive-thru when a toddler with a giant smile tells them hello!
And it did. The guy at the window grinned ear to ear. And then he told me to wait a minute. {A minute turned into three, four.} Finally he came back. With three Burger King crowns. One for my son and one for my nephew who was also in the backseat. A third for my daughter who is way too old for a crown but it makes her smile, even if a bit baffled, that he thought of her too. 🙂
I smile too because it was super thoughtful, and I go to reach for them, as I also feel eyes from the truck behind me glaring and my imagination tells me they’re probably muttering for me to hurry up already.
But the man insists on assembling the crowns for us, guesstimating the boys’ sizes, telling them what great kings they will be that day!
And in that moment I realize that my soul needs some work.
That I need to learn to hold on to my peace and our new-to-us easygoing pace, even when I feel pressured to pick up the speed- {because much of the world likes to keep things moving fast.}
I almost rushed this moment not because it wasn’t precious but because I imagined that other people were running out of patience with us for it.
Whether that was true or not I never will know.
But what I do know is that we found a rare treasure of an example that day, in the older gentleman at that drive-thru window.
An example of how, even when the pressure to perform at lightning speed is present…we can choose to pause the cry of “urgent” for a moment, and embrace important- for a minute. Or three or four, at least. 😉
Sometimes that’s all it takes.
Just a few minutes.
To remind someone else of what really matters.
To show them THEY matter.
What King-like kindness and love that is! ❤️
And how divine that we found it in a most unexpected place!
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