A real friend steps in when others step out; a sincere friend walks into
our lives when the rest of the world walks out; a true friend never gets in our
way except when we are on the way down. Here's a story of a kind girl who
did not mind absorbing ridicule just to save a classmate from embarrassment.
There is a kid sitting at his desk and all of a sudden, there is a
puddle between his feet and the front of his pants is wet. He thinks his heart
is going to stop because he cannot possibly imagine how this has happened.
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Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for
awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the
same. ~Anonymous~ |
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!”
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The
glory of friendship is the spiritual inspiration that comes
to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is
willing to trust him.
~Ralph Waldo
Emerson~ |
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.
