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Come with me to a third grade classroom..... There is a
nine-year-old kid sitting at his desk and all of a
sudden, there is a puddle between his feet and the front of his pants are wet. He thinks his heart is going to
stop because he
cannot possibly imagine how this has happened. It's never happened before, and he knows
that when the
boys find out he will never hear the end of it. When the girls find out, they'll never speak to him
again as long as he lives. The boy believes his heart is going to stop; he puts his head down and prays this prayer,
"Dear God, this is an emergency! I need help now! Five
minutes from now I'm dead meat."
He looks up from his prayer and here comes the teacher with a look in her
eyes that says he has been discovered.
As the teacher is walking toward him, a classmate named Susie is carrying
a goldfish bowl that is filled with water.
Susie trips in front of the teacher and inexplicably dumps the bowl of water
in the boy's lap.
The boy pretends to be angry, but all the while is
saying to himself,
"Thank you, Lord! Thank you, Lord!"
Now all of a sudden, instead of being the object of
ridicule, the boy is the object of sympathy. The teacher rushes
him downstairs and gives him gym shorts to put on while his
pants dry out. All the other children are on their hands
and knees cleaning up around his desk. The sympathy is wonderful. But as life would have it,
the ridicule that should
have been his has been transferred to someone else - Susie. She tries to help, but they tell
her to get out.
"You've
done enough, you klutz!"
Finally, at the end of the day, as they are waiting for
the bus, the boy walks over to Susie and whispers,
"You did that on purpose, didn't you?"
Susie whispers
back,
"I wet my pants once too."
May God help us see the opportunities that are always
around us to do good. Remember.....Just going to church
doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in
your garage makes you a car.
Author: Annonymous
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