“Plain bagel with cream cheese!” The dad called out to his daughter as she exited the back seat of the Lexus.

A helicopter, it looks like an LAPD unit, flies overhead.

Woof-woof-woof-woof. A little gray dog is leashed to a free-standing umbrella barks as his master goes into Starbucks for a cup of latte.

“Yea, yea…she is so rude…I’ve got to get out of jury duty…” That’s the part of the conversation I picked up as a woman headed to her Pilates workout said on her end of the cell phone call as she passed by me…

Slam! That was the door of the USA today Newspaper stand shutting after an old man bought his paper.

Click, clomp, click, clomp, click…Three well-dressed, professional-looking women in heels just passed by.

Screech, “Sorry” and a little wave from an Asian woman talking on her cell phone calls out from behind the wheel of her BMW after almost going through the pedestrian walkway where those three women just crossed the street.

“Here, let’s sit outside.” A woman suggested to her companion as they exited the same bagel shop I am sitting at.

“Oh, #$&*%).” A guy just came back to his parked car and found out he received a parking ticket for failing to feed the meter. That’s gonna cost 45 dollars instead of 25 cents.

Big trucks, SUVs, cars, bicycles, strollers…the buzz of people coming and going up and down the streets and sidewalks is endless.

“Daddy makes better jambas than that place we just went,” declares a red-haired child who looks to be about five-years old.

Beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep…It’s the big, blue Consolidated Disposal Service truck positioning itself to collect the trash dumpsters from the local businesses. Men in bright, lime green vests jump out and direct the truck driver into place. Now they roll the dumpsters over to the awaiting garbage truck and a giant arm lowers down and then raises the garbage high enough to drop it all into its big belly. Crash! This process repeats itself several times, then off they go…

Slam, crash, smash…Wow. That was unusual! A man leashed his pit bull to a small table and then went into the coffee shop. Apparently the dog didn’t like that and took off, with the little metal wire mesh table in tow. It was quite a racket as the dog tried to navigate a tree, a trash can, and loading-only sign. The master retrieved his dog and calmed him down.

That’s real life repeated in thousands of places all day long, day after day. We catch little glimpses of strangers all along the way. And they catch glimpses of us in return. Be aware that it might just be one passing glimpse of glory that will impact the rest of their day, even the rest of their life. Philippians 2:15 admonishes us to “shine like stars in the universe.” What would the rest of your day be like if that’s what you caught a glimpse of in someone along the way?