first weeks, fads, and facelifts

a week ago today i started my new job! i remember sitting there, on my first day of training--with a girl i had met when we interviewed back in february--thinking how fun this new adventure would be. working at Nordstrom in santa monica is a pretty big deal (sales wise), and i figured that although these customers would drop big loads of money, i would do my best to serve each of them as if they were Jesus himself. however, i quickly became intimidated by all the quotas i had to meet, and the way in which i had to approach customers. would i sound phony when i went up to someone to say "hi, how are you doing today?" or would i know how to work the register quickly when someone was in a big hurry, and did not want to wait for the "new girl" to slowly scan everything?

i soon realized though, in the first week of work, that this entire process is a humbling one. my prayer has been to serve those wherever I am placed, and i was confused when Nordstrom fell into my lap. I wondered, "how do i serve those who already have all the 'material' things that they want?" my expectations were quickly torn down, and i have been seen the fruit of humility slowly revealing itself within every shift i work. sure many of the women are chasing after something as fleeting as fashion, a fad, in which it will be forever changing and never remain constant, but i like the twist of things i had anticipated.

luke 14:12-14 talks about feasting with those who are poor, crippled, lame and blind, so that you may be "repaid at the resurrection of righteousness."

i guess i ONLY saw service as defending the weak and loving on the widows, homeless and orphaned; but i am learning that i can serve those who are deemed to have it all. for me, i feel this type of service is right where the lord has me and where i belong.

so regardless of the fashion fads and the scary facelifts i see on a day to day basis, may all service be to the glory of the lord.