WET PANTS
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.'
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We have all been on one side or the
other of being ridiculed or being helped to save face after something like the
above happened.
If you made fun of someone in your past,
why not apologize to them for your actions. It may brighter their day to hear
your apology, no matter how long it has been.
Galatians 6:9--10 And let us not grow weary while doing good,
for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. 10Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those
who are of the household of faith.
May God help us see the
opportunities that are always around us to do good.
With love and concern,
Larry