{ INFORMATIVE MATERIAL } ~~~~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 watch ed 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.

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. 

If God brings you to 

it, He will bring you through 

it.