Do you have a CV's card?

My days currently consist of taking people's money at our local grocery store - yep, you guessed it - I'm a cashier! It's a very glamorous job. When I'm not running your bloody ground chuck over my scanner, you can find me putting up the Cheese-It's you left behind because you didn't have enough money on your Food Stamps. It isn't my first choice as a job, although it is closer to what I'm going in to - food!

I interact with a huge array of different people on a daily basis. From the old guy who comes in to buy his single slice of Petit Jean Bologna and solo banana every single morning at 10:15, to the backwoods couple that comes in once a month and buys $600 worth of groceries. Occasionally I encounter middle aged men in business suits, to which I am as polite as I can be without being overly so, in the hope that they are the owner of our grocery store chain and will give me a huge raise on their next visit. :-).

Some day's I think almost without ceasing about how long the 5-hour shift is taking, and how much longer I have to stare at the clock until my break comes around. Then other days I shake my head when I realize how fast the day has flown by. I really and truly love what I do. Southern people really bring out the best in me. Some times I realize I have been smiling without ceasing for the last 20 minutes at the people coming through my line. There is the older lady with the bright orange hair and makeup plastered face. And there's the older guy who always responds, "peachy!" when I ask how he is. These people make my day, I look forward to seeing their bright toothless smiles every day. I wish you could see my smile right now, I smile just thinking about these people :-).

Above all I see the huge ministry opportunity I've been given. I don't know where these people are coming from - or what is going on in their lives. What I do know, is that I have about 3 minutes with them to show the love of my Savior. It may be through a nice comment, a smile, or a mistakenly counted amount of money on their part, because of which they get an 'extra' dollar back. I'm trying to do what I can to show God's love to the people of Ozark. One can of Pork'n'Beans at a time. :-)