A Moving Story Of Inspiration For Us All
Posted by: clean-hewmor <clean-hewmor@...>
A man is in bed with his wife when there is a rat-a-tat-tat on the
door.
He rolls over and looks at his clock, and it's half past three in the
morning. "I'm not getting out of bed at this time," he thinks, and
rolls over. Then, a louder knock follows.
"Aren't you going to answer that?" says his wife.
So he drags himself out of bed and goes downstairs. He opens the door and
there is man standing at the door. It didn't take the homeowner long to
realize the man was drunk.
"Hi there," slurs the stranger. "Can you give me a push??"
"No, get lost. It's half past three. I was in bed," says the man and
slams the door. He goes back up to bed and tells his wife what happened and
she says,
"Dave, that wasn't very nice of you. Remember that night we broke
down in the pouring rain on the way to pick the kids up from the
baby sitter and you had to knock on that man's house to get us started
again? What would have happened if he'd told us to get lost??"
"But the guy was drunk," says the husband.
"It doesn't matter," says the wife. "He needs our help and it would
be the Christian thing to help him." So the husband gets out of bed
again, gets dressed, and goes downstairs.
He opens the door, and not being able to see the stranger anywhere he
shouts, "Hey, do you still want a push??"
And he hears a voice cry out, "Yeah please."
So, still being unable to see the stranger he shouts, "Where are you?"
And the stranger replies, "I'm over here, on your swing."