An
Inspirational Story
(Ms Ritu Sinha)
(Ms Ritu Sinha)
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.
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