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Right Place, Right Time



Before I went to a second cart...
my carts leaving the aisles.- notice the bottom of one is full too!   
“That can’t be right…,”  I thought to myself as I looked at the prices of the toys in the sale isle.  “No way….”  I said out loud to no one in particular…  I picked up one of the toys and double checked the SKU number against the price shown.  Could I have JUST accidentally stumbled onto one of the greatest sales I have seen? This couldn’t have been advertised!  I went through grabbing toys.  Putting them into my cart, filling up one, and then a second cart both spilling over.  Sitting in the middle of the surprisingly low attended sale aisle I thought through who I was going to need presents for, I strategically scribbled a list onto the back of my prescription bag and marked them off as I sprawled toys across the aisles.  The manager and workers were smiling at me as I dragged my 2 overloaded carts away from the isle.  They informed me that they weren’t going to keep the sale going all day even, the 75% off was going back up to 50% off before the days end.  I also heard the one employee state that he worked over 4 hours pricing last night and really didn’t want to have to re-price everything all over again. 

Leaving the store, I immediately began calling and texting friends to let them know about this amazing sale.  I went to get my daughter from school and proudly showed off my trunk full of 30 different LARGE toys for under $100.  My friends began rushing to the store and began filling up carts.  As they were leaving, the signs were pulled, the sale was over, they had emptied enough of their shelves for new merchandise to come in, so they were putting the prices back to the 50% savings instead of 75%. 

I had an amazing feeling surround me; I was leaving with an amazing deal, 30 amazing deals.  I was leaving with gifts for family, friends, my kids, my husband… Who needs Black Friday when I have a random Wednesday?  There is something about the way you feel when you score a really great deal.  There is a feeling of elation, a feeling of excitement, a feeling like you just HAVE to tell everyone about it.  My endorphins were so high.  I am still on cloud 17, I surpassed 9 a while ago!  I got a call from my mom later and re-lived the whole experience.  WOW!  What a rush! 

Now, had I not been in the right place at the right time, I would never have known about this amazing sale.  Life is a lot of times like that.  Bringing myself back to reality and back home I wondered how God wanted to use that rush in my life.  Have you ever brought someone to Christ?  Have you ever felt the satisfaction of praying a prayer of salvation with someone?  The rush that you get is amazing.  It is very similar to a sale. 

Sometimes, we talk to our friends and family about Christ for years.  We discuss with them the joys of being a Christian etc, but they don’t listen to us.  Then one day, when we aren’t checking in with them, something amazing happens, they ask Christ to come into their hearts.  We are so excited for them, but we wish we could have been there to see it happen.  Sometimes, we aren’t there at just the right place and time to help someone accept Christ.  Sometimes, we forget, but if we are putting ourselves in the situation to be the right place at the right time and constantly seeking salvation for our friends and loved ones, then we are less likely to miss it. 

Galatians 6:9 “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”
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