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January 09, 2007

Love and Grace In The Walmart Checkout Line

I’d never been in the food section of our local Walmart.  Until noontime yesterday.

 

 

Using one of those person-less, scan, pay and bag your own groceries checkouts, I was confused over where to put the credit card; where to scan the groceries, and needed help from a marginally friendly Walmart ‘Associate.’

 

 

Focused on task, I suddenly felt the presence of someone behind me in the checkout line.

 

 

Almost a premonition.

 

 

I turned.

 

 

A beautiful young woman, about 30, with crystal blue eyes, was standing there.

 

 

Dressed in a modish hat and long skirt – like Mia Farrow or Diane Keaton in a Woody Allen movie.

 

 

She smiled.

 

 

I thought: ‘If I’m dead and gone to heaven, Lord, let her be my guardian angel.’

 

 

My eyes traveled from her eyes to an oversized badge on her green and white-tinged, herringbone coat. 

 

The badge read:

 

         SISTER PAVOLA

         Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

 

 

I turned back to scan the cat food, bread and peanut butter.

 

 

And ran a  free hand thru the balding spot on the back of my head.

 

 

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