My wife is leading campus tours for freshman orientation at the junior college where she is a counselor. She is also breaking in new Asolo hiking boots whixh are notoriously stiff and long in the tooth for Autumn Adventure.
Her supervisor has been making a few friendly remarks about the new shoes as he calls them, so she is flaunting her upcoming vacation because he spends most of his moving his daughter into and out of the dorms at Baylor University, a task that pretty much consumes his ever ability.
She left for work this morning wearing her Asolos and carrying her daypack, a Camelbak Cloud Walker with it's bladder filled with ice cubes and water against the 96 degree heat and 98% humidity and a bag of leftover Philmont trail food in it. For shade she is wearing her Stetson Gun Club wide brimmed hat with the Indianna Jones brim roll. She is boss lookint to say the least and intimidating to the boss just for the fun of it.
I am not the only one around this household who wakes up each morning with the thought in mind "I'm gonna have a little fun today".
Well, right after I posted the bit about taking time to stop and smell the roses, she sent me this "pass it along to at least four of your friends email" and I thought I'd share it with you.
We usually don't carry goldfish bowls on the trail, but we do carry water bottles and her is anotehr use for a liter of bottled water.
As Scout leaders I think we have all been there done similar.
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
Remember.....Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car
The Prayer
Father, I ask You to bless my friends, relatives and those that I care deeply for, who are reading this right now. Show them a new revelation of Your love and power. Holy Spirit, I ask You to minister to their spirit at this very moment. Where there is pain, give them Your peace and mercy. Where there is self-doubt, release a renewed confidence through Your grace. Where there is need, I ask you to fulfill their needs. Bless their homes, families, friends and their goings and their comings. Amen
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