Little Miss Susie-Q

This isn't going to be an original post. It was sent to me in an email from my friend Pat C.  It was so good, that after I wiped the tears away I thought I'd share it with you.

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 finds 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 was wonderful. But as life would have it, the ridicule that should have been his had 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.'

God, help us see the opportunities that are always around us to do good… then grant us the courage to act!

Remember... just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car. 

Matthew 7:12

Common English Bible

¹² Therefore, you should treat people in the same way that you want people to treat you; this is the Law and the Prophets.

May your week be blessed. My mind is still recovering from last week's training! I'm now a certified Equal Employment Opportunity Liaison with my agency. Oh, the things I've learned! Things and actions I never wanted to know about!

 Tamara