A young and
successful executive was travelling 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.
