I am starting a Bible study for women that will start this Saturday. I ask that those of you that are led to intercede for me, please do so. As I have prepared for this time of worship with other women, I have experienced a series of events which I call “the humbling.” For it seems as if I may have gotten a bit puffed up as of late.

The first experience happened quite unexpectedly. I was at Quick-trip and I had stopped there for a snack. I was getting famished while out seeing patients. After I bought a small snack I decided I would fill up with gas.

I drove around and got my car set in place and started filling up with gas. There was a lady in a Mercedes who was facing me in her car. She was talking on her phone and was having quite the conversation. I noticed she was not filling her car up with gas.

I stared at her. I had my sunglasses on so she didn’t know I was staring at her. I was about to set off on a path of judging her. Why on earth would she be sitting there if she wasn’t going to fill up with gas? I mean there wasn’t a line of cars or anything but I thought it was a bit insensitive. I stopped staring and started glaring.

I thought it must be cause she was in a Mercedes. I mean after all those kind of people have the idea that they are better than others because they have a really cool car right?

Oh the thoughts that went through my mind… they bordered on the brink of real hostility. There she was having an animated conversation and she wasn’t even filling up with gas which is what she should have been doing. Whatever was she thinking?

I quickly finished filling up my car with gas and gave her one last horrific glare through my sunglasses then drove off. I glanced back to see what she was doing and I realized she was pulling up to fill up her car out of the same gas tank I had been using

Wow, while I was judging her, she was being patient and kind, waiting for me to get out of her way. I hadn’t even noticed one glare coming my way because she didn’t need to wear sunglasses.

She had nothing to hide. Those people who drive Mercedes Benz cars sometimes don’t only drive cool cars, they are cool people. Whereas those people who drive Hyundai Elantra’s (my car) may need to continue to wear sunglasses. I mean after all when you got a log in your own eye while trying to dislodge a splinter in someone else’s, sunglasses are a dire necessity.