Mary's Musings:
(JUNE 23, 2010) 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 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.
Remember.....Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than
standing in your garage makes you a car.
Each and everyone one of us is going through tough times right now, but God is
getting ready to bless you in a way that only He can. Keep the faith.
** As someone who wet
their pants in the 4th grade (way too old for that kind of thing), I
too was grateful for an understanding person---my teacher. God can use us in so
many ways---if we keep our eyes open to Him.
