Ayoung 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 through the Holy Spirit
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.
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Brilliant story. Thanks.
Amen!