When being good doesn't feel so good...

Friday night I headed to Harris Teeter to get some flowers. They had flats for $6, which is about half of what the rest of the city has them for. I had decided to buy 2 flats to plant around the house. I picked out my flowers and took them inside to pay for them. The cashier rang up the flowers and I noticed that my total was only about half of what it should have been. You know what saving money does to me. I've mentioned that it is like a drug addition for me. :) Not many things make me happier. So inside my mind I am thinking... is he done scanning the flowers? Am I gonna get all these flowers for $6? He tells me the total and I scan my debit card, pay for my purchase and leave the store. As I walk to the car I can't believe my luck! Gobs of flowers for $6.44! I'm almost to my car and I really start to feel like I need to take the flowers back inside and get my receipt adjusted. So I trudge back inside... you know what I mean... where you want to drag your feet behind you and are practically having a Jim Carrey moment in the parking lot where you are throwing yourself forward and backward and practically dragging yourself into the store. Yeah that was me on the inside. For appearance's sake I managed to keep it together. I waited at the customer service counter reminding myself that Harris Teeter gives you the item free if they overcharge you and you catch it. Maybe they will do that for undercharging me too! Umm... they don't. When you tell them you think you were undercharged, they stare at you in disbelief and tell you that "no one" comes back for being undercharged! As if I needed another reminder of the alternative plan of taking my deal and running!

I paid the difference and trudged back to my car. When I went to the store I was fully prepared to pay $12 for two flats of flowers and still all I could think about was... that sucked. On my drive home I really started thinking about how doing the right thing doesn't always give you the warm fuzzies. Sometimes it really does suck. Sometimes you hate every minute of it. But that doesn't change the fact that the right thing is still the right thing. It could be having a tough conversation with someone that you have hurt. It could be swallowing your pride and admitting you are wrong. It could be saying no and risking social rejection for not doing the popular thing. Bottom line is that we aren't called to do the right thing because of how it will make us feel. We do the right thing because He asks us to.