One of my earliest customer service experience memories as a child was my parents buying me a Belt Buster hamburger at Dairy Queen.
The attendant asked me the same question that day in the early 1970’s they would ask you today in a Wendy’s or any other such palace of fine dining:
Do you want (to add, for an additional charge) cheese with that?
Fast forward a few years. One of my more recent customer service experiences required standing in an 18 degree semi-enclosed space waiting with a dozen or more fellow humans being for our bags to be delivered.
It seems that none of us wanted to spring that extra dime for the add on cheese.
And it got me to thinking. How many seemingly basic necessities of life do we charge extra for?
Attention?
Love?
Acceptance?
Forgiveness?
It seems as I’ve gotten older I find it easier to throw a few more moments, emotions, and personal investment in gratis while trying to serve up “the all beef patty of life” level of “customer service” to those I know.
I think we all have a good old school example of that:
You parents—if your children ask for a loaf of bread, do you give them a stone instead? Or if they ask for a fish, do you give them a snake? Of course not! So if you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him. Matthew 7:9-11
So, today, I’m grateful for a place to stand, and for the opportunity to continue this walk, and that He provides it daily, free of charge.
I’ll take it, hold the cheese.
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