Sunday, August 31, 2008

A little ~Story~ for you

Friday Morning Story: "Being a Friend"
It's a third grade classroom and a nine-year-old boy is 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 other 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 friend and classmate of his named Susie is carrying a goldfish bowl that is filled with water.

Inexplicably Susie trips in front of the teacher and 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,

"Thank you. You did that on purpose, didn't you?" Susie whispers back,

"Hey, what are friends for. I wet my pants once, too."

May God guide us to see the opportunities that are always around us to help a friend.

~ Author Unknown ~


This story came to me today from this beautiful site:

http://www.52best.com/index.asp

So i just wanted to say Thankyou girls for being "my friend"
...Not that i still wet my pants! But hey you get the picture X;-)
Thankyou for all the online ~love~ and the offline ~love~ too
YOU really are such ~magical~ support for me in my time of "Opps! What am i gonna do now!"

i don't mean to sound repeatetive or too gushy but i really do Luv ya's
...and don't forget that i am here for YOU guys too... Because we are connected now You and ME and it's a ~beautiful thing!~ XOX



3 comments:

Anonymous said...

XOXOXOXOXOX you too!!!!!!

Zom said...

i hope so. xxx

Connie said...

Right back at you sister!!!

I have to tell you...I can not get enough of that photo of you by the ocean. I just stare at it, and goose bumps start to crawl all over my arms. It's full of energy!

Your pose in front of the ocean so reminds me of warrior pose that you do in Yoga. That's you Vicki. Our warrior full of life and energy.

Lots of love!

Peace & Love.