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I Just Wanted To Share This Message!

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.

 

Thoughts for the Day:

 

If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.

 

If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it.

 

He sends you flowers every spring.

 

He sends you a sunrise every morning.

 

Face it, my friends – He is crazy about you!

 

God didn’t promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way.

 

Read this line very slowly and let it sink in…

 

If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.

 

Hugz J

Cheri

 

p.s.  A very dear friend of mine sent this to me via email along with some very beautiful pictures.  As you all know I am not very computer savvy and I was unable to include the pictures here.  However, the story itself got me very choked up and I wanted to share it with my friends.

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3 thoughts on “I Just Wanted To Share This Message!”

  1. What a fabulous story! The last section in particular is so true. There are times when I know that the only way I get through the next day or hour is becuase He is guiding me.

  2. Hi. Great cards in your blog! Thanks for joining the candy. I had to smile at your comment about the webshop being in Norwegian… Well, I don’t think they are going to bother to do it in English since it is only two of them making the stuff. But the grandma is a great English speaker, she is translating books from English into Norwegian, so she would understand any e-mails she recieved in English 😉

    Wonderful thoughts in your last post here. I liked the sentence saying that God sends you flowers each spring… it is so true, yet so easy to forget. So thanks for sharing! 🙂 Have a great week.

    Eba.

  3. Thanks for the Candy Blog–I tried to leave my comment but I don’t read Norwegian. If I could read Norwegian I would consider myself brilliant. I have a hard time reading my own handwritting. Your card is so pretty and I love the outfit–so warm and fuzzy. Thanks for sharing your thoughts–we sometimes forget God but he never forgets us. Like our own children, I guess we are no different. Bella bella card to you!

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