Have you ever been saved from
embarrassment by a kindly soul who absorbs the ridicule? These are the
kind of people who are friends for life. Check this story out.
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 — “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.
Author Unknown
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