trust + heart = community (living out Philippians 2:4)

This morning I was sitting at a coffee shop with my 5 year old son Ethan on my lap. He was sipping his hot chocolate and we were playing hangman on his superman computer when I observed something that totally blew me away. An middle aged woman walks in and is standing in line and one of shop's employees who knows her from her daily visits walks by and asks her how she was doing. It was evident very quickly that the woman had been having a very rough week. A few hugs & words were exchanged and the next thing I knew, the shop employee was offering to deliver coffee to her house and asking the customer to call her if there was anything she could do. To be honest, i almost fell out of my seat. Here were two virtual strangers, known only to each other due to multiple 30 second conversations while waiting for a coffee cup to fill and yet there was trust, there was heart, there was a better living example of Philippians 2:4 than I often see between people who label themselves Christians. As I left the coffee shop, i found myself wishing for that kind of relationship among the Body of Christ... that kind of trust, that kind of heart so there might be that kind of community. But the reality is trust is not a very easy commodity to come by. While it should be our default, it typically is replaced by suspicion... everyone for themselves right? Why can't we trust more easily? Why are untrustworthy until we prove ourselves trustful. Now don't get me wrong, I am not saying we should be stupid and trust everyone as Proverbs 25:19 says "Trusting in a treacherous man in time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a foot that slips." But can't we do better? When someone walks into a church can we not do better than a coffee shop in extending our hearts and extending our trust? Can't we do better at really caring about someone? Not just the casual, "hey how are you?" which has replaced "hi" as the common greeting on the street, but actually stopping someone and truly asking them, "how are you really? what's been hard about your week? what's been great about your week?" But it takes time. It takes heart to care about someone enough to think of them before yourself, to give of your time, to actually listen. Maybe then we can actually live out Philippians 2:4 "Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others." If that can happen between a coffee shop employee and a customer, certainly it could happen between people who share one faith, one love and one God.