Thank God for Rumpke
September 23, 2008
I veered slightly from my assignment. I scratched off a Drive-thru freebee. I don’t know if anyone else tried to get in a drive-thru line last week, but it was almost impossible. I went out Friday at noon to see if I could complete my assignment but really felt like I wanted to do something special for someone who was having a really bad week. I thought of all of the people who were having to work extra hard because of the power outages; the Duke workers, store re-stockers, frazzled fast food workers, ER workers dealing with a multitude of chain saw accidents. I prayed that I would find someone to bless who was feeling overworked and under-appreciated. As I was driving up my street I passed a Rumpke worker and thought to myself, I would not want to be doing that today! That would not be fun on a regular day, but can you imagine the week he was having when every house was throwing away the entire content of their refrigerators and freezers? I ran into the house, grabbed my orange card and a 20 dollar bill and taped them to the top of my trashcan lid. I hoped that knowing that he matters to God and to those he is working so hard to serve would brighten his day. I also hoped he would forgive me for putting out 10 bags of trash!
