Helping Out
Today I went to get my car cleaned up so that the people I am driving around Adelaide during the Influencers Conference have a nice clean vehicle inside and out and leave Adelaide with a positive experience rather than my car’s usual state of cleanliness. When my car gets a good clean I like to go to the Mobil Adelaide car wash where for more money than you would normally pay they will go to more trouble than you can usually be bothered with to leave your car looking fabulous and smelling better too.
After the wash I usually go and sit on a nice bench provided by Adelaide council on the footpath right next to the area where the people from the car wash go over your car with towels after the wash and clean the insides and listen to my iPod (luckily the podcast today was more intelligible than last time). On a sunny day like today it provides a nice pause where you can convince yourself that time spent sitting in the sun is not time better spent running around doing what you have to do.
After they had finished with my car one of the guys doing the work motions to me and I come over. He asks me if I want air freshner (yes I do) and I point out a couple of places on the windscreen that need to be fixed up (not his fault by the way). He gets to work fixing those up and I start chatting to him about why I’m getting the car cleaned. It turns out that he goes to the Paradise City church and really loves the ministry there. After he finds out why I need the car looking good he goes round the rest of the windows again just to make sure.
What got me was that here are two guys who just happened to meet in the middle of a normal day who on the surface have nothing in common. I’m having a day off trying to get things ready for the conference and he is working hard, probably trying to earn some money to support his studies. I’m older, he’s younger. I’m caucasian, he is asian and yet we share the samne church, the same faith and the same hope.
Hem, I hope you get blessed on Thursday night when you come. I hope you get a great seat and I hope that the extra effort that you put in to my car comes back in blessings from God in overflowing measure.
