The Wet Pants

Ngompol di Celana
Ada seorang anak laki-laki umur sembilan tahun sedang duduk di bangku kelasnya dan tiba-tiba, ada genangan air di selangkangannya dan bagian depan celananya basah. Ia malu sekali dan tak tahu mengapa hal ini terjadi. Tak pernah terjadi hal ini sebelumnya, dan ia tahu bahwa jika anak-anak lelaki mengetahui hal ini, tidak tahu akan bagaimana jadinya nanti... Jika anak-anak perempuan tahu hal itu, mungkin mereka tak mau bergaul dengan dirinya seumur hidup.

Anak lelaki ini malu sekali dan sambil membenamkan kepalanya ke bawah ia berdoa, "Tuhan, ini keadaan darurat. Saya perlu bantuan, kalau tidak saya mati saja!"

Ketika ia menengadah ke atas dari sikap doanya, ia melihat Ibu Guru mendatangi dengan tatapan mata yang mengatakan bahwa ia telah tertangkap basah. Ketika Ibu Guru berjalan menuju ke bangku anak ini, seorang teman sekelas yang bernama Susie datang membawa toples wadah ikan mas yang berisi air. Susie menyelinap di depan Ibu Guru dan tanpa diduga menumpahkan air dari toples itu ke pangkuan anak lelaki itu. Anak lelaki itu berpura-pura marah, namun di dalam hatinya ia berkata, "Terima kasih, Tuhan. Terima kasih, Tuhan."

Kini tiba-tiba anak lelaki ini menjadi pusat simpati, bukannya pusat olok-olokan. Ibu Guru cepat membawa anak lelaki ini ke lantai bawah dan memberinya celana olah raga sementara celananya dikeringkan. Semua anak-anak lain sibuk membersihkan dan mengepel lantai yang basah di sekitar bangku anak lelaki itu. Dan ejekan yang seharusnya diterima anak lelaki itu kini dialihkan kepada temannya yang "jahat", Susie. Anak perempuan ini mencoba membantu membersihkan, tetapi mereka menolaknya. "Sudah cukup, anak jahat!"

Akhirnya, ketika anak-anak akan pulang, mereka menunggu di halte bis. Anak lelaki ini mendekati Susie dan berbisik, "Kamu menyiramku dengan sengaja 'kan?"

Susie menjawab dengan berbisik pula, "Aku pernah ngompol di celana juga."

Semoga Tuhan menolong kita untuk melihat setiap kesempatan dimana kita dapat berbuat baik kepada orang-orang lain. Masing-masing kita mungkin akan melewati suatu pengalaman yang sulit saat ini, tetapi hanya Tuhan yang dapat memberkati Anda dengan cara yang dapat Dia lakukan. Diterjemahkan oleh Hadi Kristadi untuk Pentas Kesaksian, http://pentas-kesaksian.blogspot.com pada tanggal 22 Juni 2009.

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The 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.

Each and everyone one of us are going through tough times right now, but God is getting ready to bless you in a way that only He can.



Ditulis/diposting oleh Hadi Kristadi untuk PENTAS KESAKSIAN
http://pentas-kesaksian.blogspot.com