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The Brick ~
A young and successful executive was traveling
down a neighborhood street,
going a bit
too fast in his new Jaguar.
He was watching for
kids darting out from between parked cars
and
slowed down when he thought he saw something.
As his car passed, no children appeared.
Instead, a brick smashed into the Jag's side door!
He slammed on the brakes and backed the
Jag back to the spot where the brick had been
thrown. The angry driver then jumped out of the
car,
grabbed the nearest kid and pushed him up
against a parked car shouting,
"What was that all about and who are you?
Just what the heck are you doing?
That's a new
car and that brick you threw is going to cost a
lot of money.
Why did you do it?"
The young boy was apologetic.
"Please, mister...please, I'm sorry but I didn't know what else to
do,"
He pleaded.
"I threw the brick because no one else would
stop..."
With tears dripping down his
face and off his chin
the youth pointed to a
spot just around a parked car.
"It's my brother," he said. "He rolled off the curb
and fell out of his wheelchair and I can't lift him up."
Now sobbing, the boy asked the stunned executive,
"Would you
please help me get him back into his wheelchair?
He's hurt and he's too heavy for me."
Moved beyond words, the driver tried to swallow
the rapidly swelling lump in his throat. He hurriedly lifted the handicapped boy back
into the wheelchair,
then took out a linen handkerchief
and dabbed at the fresh scrapes and cuts.
A quick look told him everything was going to be
okay.
"Thank you and may God bless you,"
the grateful child told the stranger.
Too
shook up for words, the man simply watched
the boy push his wheelchair-bound brother down the
sidewalk
toward their home.
It was a long, slow walk back to the Jaguar.
The damage was very noticeable,
but the driver never bothered to repair the dented
side door.
He kept the dent there to remind him of this
message
"Don't go through life so fast
that someone has to throw a brick at you
to get your attention!"
God whispers in our
souls and speaks to our hearts.
Sometimes when
we don't have time to listen,
He has to throw
a brick at us... It's our choice to listen or not.
God didn't promise days without pain,
laughter without sorrow,
sun without rain,
but He did promise strength
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