Donuts and Diet Coke
On my way to teach a class this morning I stopped by a local donut shop for a sausage, cheese and jalapeno kolache. The man at the counter placing his order in front of me requested donuts for his wife, a variety of donut holes for his son, then for himself a kolache, cake donut, filled pastry, and a Diet Coke.
I found it rather humorous that he would order a plate of sugary donuts and top it off with a diet soda – emphasis on “diet.” The man noticed the smirk on my face and said, “Oh, excuse me.” I assume referring to the amount of time it had taken to get all of his family orders placed. I explained the humor in his selection of a sugar packed breakfast with a Diet Coke. Funny thing is, as I had pondered his activities I realized I was about to do the same thing. I clued him in on my observations as we shared a laugh at how crazy Americans think and no wonder that Europeans don’t understand us. “Further more” he said, “we’re loading our kids up on all this sugar and then we’re going to drop them off at the daycare.” We parted and I wolfed down my kolache and Diet Coke as I drove away thinking, How many times do I make a judgement about what others are doing when I am guilty of the same thing?
Matthew 7:1-3 says, “Stop judging others, and you will not be judged. For others will treat you as you treat them. Whatever measure you use in judging others, it will be used to measure how you are judged. “ (New Living Translation)
