Whose Watchin'?

When we were at the beach, Randol made a friend named Brooke. Brooke was a really sweet 9 year old girl who's room was near ours and who's dad was also there for the conference. I met Brooke's mother at the pool. There is no other way to say it, but she treated me like I was this little nobody who didn't have a brain. I don't know if it was me or if she treated most people like that. You could clearly tell she thought she was better than I was. I have no idea why she acted the way she did or what I possibly could have done to make her not like me in the first five minutes of talking to her. But I knew one thing-I never wanted to make someone else feel less than I was.


It made me think about the Mexican lady who cleaned our hotel room everyday. How did I make her feel? I would always feel bad when she would come to clean up my mess. Most of the time we were still in our room when she came so I would just take her the trash and get clean towels. Finally, the day before we left, our room really needed cleaning. When she came, I helped her clean our room. She looked at me like I was crazy. All I knew about this woman was that her name was Vicki and she could not speak or understand much English. She had a nice, shy smile with brown eyes that sparkled when I talked to her. I could tell she had been treated as the "hired help" she was and not as the person she is.


How many times have I treated others like I was better than them? Maybe a bag boy in the grocery store or a waitress in a restaurant. It could be a cashier at Walmart or the man changing your oil. In God's eyes we are all the same, there is no hierarchy of who is better than the other. The Lord reminded me through Brooke's mother how important it is to remember that. I wonder if I would've made such a point to be nice to Vicki if I hadn't had that reminder. How you treat others goes a long way. One bad word out of frustration and your whole testimony has gone down the drain. Our greatest testimony to the world is how we act-ALL the time, not just when we know others are watching.


"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."
~Matthew 7:1-2