pass it on

you've heard the phrase, "be the change you want to see in the world" right?

so i decided to start the pass it on movement again today. i was driving around running some errands, and thought i should stop for a bite to eat... mama was craving a taco. so i pull through taco bells drive thru (great quality, i know) and it hit me. i need to be doing more for the people that i claim to have a passion for: people.

so i pull around, and as i was handing the employee my money, i told her to let me pay for the girls order behind me. all im saying is thank God i decided to do this at taco bell and not perry's. the drive thru worker asked, sorta hesitantly, if i knew her. i told her no but that if i could have any part in somebody else having a good day that i wanted to do it. she closed the window and came back with my straw and soda (which, might i add, is too large for my little cup holders... theyve gotta do something about that) and i went on my merry little way.

part of me really wishes i stuck around to see her face when she was told that she could put her money away... and to see how happy it might have made her feel. i wonder if she decided to 'pass it on' to the car behind her... and so on and so on.

i heard about somebody doing this a while back at a Starbucks, and how it went on for a couple hours or something like that. and to think - it had to start with just one person deciding to do it. i honestly, truthfully, just wanted to have the opportunity to play a part in making somebody's day a little bit better. i hope my goal was accomplished.

i am reminded of the words of my Healer when He said that whatever I did for the least of these I really did for Him. I want to live my life with that in the forefront of my brain. To give myself away. To give love away. its my calling and i think its yours too. How do we love? Not in big things, but in small things with great love.

So with all of that being said, I hope Jesus liked his tacos today. Or do you think He's more of a nachos bell grande guy?