WHO IS THE SUZIE IN YOUR LIFE?
WET PANTS
Come with me to a third grade classroom.....
There is a nine-year-old boy 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 class mate 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..