Feeling Fabulous Friday!!! For someone else???

Imagine with me...

You are in the grocery store and see a person you used to go to school with. Your eyes make contact so you acknowledge their presence. Then you say the most inconsiderate phrase ever stated, "How's it going?", you ask. Your "so called" friend replies "fine". Whew... you are so relieved that they responded in that manner, and you move on with your normal life.

This phrase upsets me sometimes because it is socially expected for one person to ask and the other to give a positive and vague response. I am about to suggest something that is so revolutionary that it might just stop the world from spinning on it's axis....

What if you only said, "How's it going?" when you truly cared about the response the other person would have.

You may be thinking...what does this have to do with feeling fabulous? Well...

Let's go back to the grocery store...

Your reply to their "fine" is "Are you really fine, because everybody says fine, but I haven't seen you in a while and I really want to know how you are doing." A surprised and shocked look comes over their face while they reply, "Why would you care when no one else does?" With a simple remark of, "You are my friend and I do care," you bring a smile to a person who, up until that time, felt alone and abandoned.


This is a hypothetical scenario, but it could play out in your life the next time you are at the store. In this age of social media sites and cell phones with immediate contact to almost everyone in the world, the sense of loneliness is at an all time high. Superficial relationships blossom while we all seek for relationships that mean more. Your concern for another may allow them to leave the grocery store feeling fabulous. Today for Fabulous Friday, I want to challenge you to do something for someone else that will make them feel a little more fabulous... just show that you care. Who knows in the process of trying to help others feel fabulous, you may find that it forces you to feel fabulous too. Show the love of God to someone who needs to feel fabulous.

And when Jesus went out He saw a great multitude; and He was moved with compassion for them, and healed their sick.

Matthew 15:14