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.
