I had to deal with a difficult client today. It occurs to me that I do that often. It really isn’t that the clients that I work with are difficult at all. Instead sometimes it is a challenge to work with them because of miscommunication, but once that gets sorted out everything else seems to fall into place. I feel like it’s my responsibility as the worker to try to make the extra effort to work things out and show the people that I am working for patience and kindness.
As I contemplated that idea, I realized that it works exactly the same way with my relationship with God. He wants me to work well with my brothers and sisters in Christ. Although sometimes they can be challenging, as one of the faithful, I owe it to myself and to my God to put forth an extra effort show others extra patience and kindness. It might actually explain the elusive “Turn the other cheek” quote. Could it be God’s weird way of saying “The customer is always right”?
Obviously, the customer isn’t always right, but when I have been in situations of customer service, even when the customer isn’t totally right, as the worker, you do everything you can to make the customer happy because it is the right thing to do. Well, with God, He asks us to love one other and I do “turn the other cheek” often. Maybe I don’t go around offering for people to hit me, but I do try my best to act with patience and understanding instead of anger and fear. It is very difficult sometimes and I struggle with it often. Yet, I believe that my brothers and sisters deserve my love more than my wrath and that I should try my best to treat them as well as I can because it is the right thing to do. At least, I hope so.
My faith saved me. May God’s peace reside in all of our hearts.
