The Wisdom From An Old Lady At Dollar Tree (Blurb)

 

A good little, long while back my family and I were visiting the dollar tree near our home, well - one of them anyway.  As we walked in there was an older woman exiting.  I was kind enough to hold the door open for her, but it was no use - because she wanted to exit with her items still within her cart.  The cart denied her this luxury.  

If you look at the picture above you should be able to see the shelves of items, as well as the cart below, and even the lovely shoulder of my beautiful wife.  What you may not have noticed you are looking at is a long tube of metal is attached to the front of the dollar tree shopping carts.  

Simple, yet most certainly effective based on watching this woman bang the bar into the threshold of the doorway with no give and absolutely no understanding of why it was stuck to begin with.  I personally am no fan of watching someone look like a fool when I can do something about it.  I speak up and let her know she will not be able to get the cart out of the store.  She is devastated (well.. that is what I saw), so I immediately asked if she would like me to carry out her bags to her vehicle. She accepts and with a few other tiny hiccups which were meaningless to my point here, we get all of her items into her car and she drives off into the sunset. 

We all are like this - we want all our treasures, but we cannot see what it is keeping us from moving on.  One may surmise the treasures keep us from exiting, but maybe, just maybe it is the device we are using to cart our treasures with.  What could that cart be?  Selfishness... Pride... Ego... Greed... Power... Humbleness... 

The truth is no matter the carrying device, we need to leave it behind to move on.  Truthfully this may certainly may mean leaving treasures behind (ask a certain 'rich young ruler'), but it may mean to keep the treasures and drop the attitude.  At the brink of the promised land this was the problem of the Israelite people, and it may be the same with you at your 'promised land brink'.

The next time you feel like you are being dragged through the dirt, and you look at your treasures as the issue, instead take a few moments to understand if your 'cart' is actual problem! 

 

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