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 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!'

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...

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.