Wet Pants

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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 has 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

classmate named Susie is

carrying a goldfish b o wl 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.