Here's One Way To Deal With A, "Murphy's Day"

Here's One Way To Deal With A, "Murphy's Day"

Once upon a time in a huge metropolis called Danville, Va. there lived a 16 year-old girl named Sue. She was a really pretty girl with lots of friends, had a 4.0 grade average since junior high, was the president of The Booster Club, was voted Most Likely To Succeed in the whole school, was dating a really great guy named Rocky, had lots of girlfriends, had won the book contests every year since she'd been in high school and had her own car. She appeared to have everything a teenage girl could ever need or want in life. Plus her parents were both behind her in everything she would try.

Then one day she invited her boyfriend, Rocky to attend a picnic that her family and some girlfriends were going to have on Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Since school was out for the summer, her parents said it would be cool with them because they both trusted her since she'd never done anything to make them not do that. She invited her boyfriend, Rocky to come with her since he could use some of his vacation days to go with her. Everything was great.

Then she invited Tony to come with her on the vacation to Myrtle Beach. Since he was the vice president of the Casino in town, he figured he could take off a few days and go have some fun with Sue for several days. He had found somebody who was really dependable to take his place at his job so he could go on the vacation of the year with his Sue.

Everything was going along great for Sue since Myrtle Beach was her favorite beach since there were so many fun things to do there that were not available anywhere else she'd ever been in her life.

Then tragedy struck. When Tony was on his way to meet her on the beach, his car stalled on some train tracks. When he tried to get out, his foot got caught in the tracks and the train ran over him. When Sue heard the news she wailed, "This is all my fault! He'd be alive if I hadn't invited him to come down to spend time at the beach with me! I'll never forgive myself for that! He should still be alive!"

She invited her parents to come spend some time with her the following week. They'd planned to come up 10 days later since her daddy couldn't take off time from his job until then. Yet on their way up to see her, a horrible electric storm opened up and lightening stuck her folk's car, killing both of them.

"This is all my fault as well!" wailed Sue, "They'd still be alive if I hadn't invited them to come visit me! I'll never forgive myself for that! I'm a major jinx!"

In her despair, she called her pastor, Bishop Tony to come visit her so he could lay hands on her and pray for God's protection since He was Jahova Nesi, her Protector. Yet as fate would have it, a drunk driver, who had no business being on the road in the first place, crashed into him, killing him on the spot.

"It's all my fault!" screamed Sue, "If he hadn't been coming to my house, he wouldn't have gotten hit by that stupid train! Oh! I will never forgive myself!"

Poor Sue was such a nervous wreck by the end of the day she really wanted to commit suicide. The only thing that kept her from doing that was she knew the Bible said, "He who takes his own life is bound for Perdition." If you murder somebody else, you can repent and God will forgive you, but if you murder yourself, there's no way to repent. That's the only sin that is unforgivable. All her loved-ones had been taken away, leaving her alone with no shoulders to cry on. Not having anywhere else to turn, she just turned to God since her Sunday School teacher told her He'd never leave her nor forsaketh her. As she prayed, "Father, what have I done wrong to have all these bad things to happen to me at the same time? Please tell me and I'll change whatever needs changing in my life. I love You so much, Lord, but I'd love You more if You'd send me some joy unspeakable that's full of glory."

That night she forgot to set her alarm for the next morning which meant she overslept. When she woke up and saw she should have already been at work, she got dressed in such a rush, she tore her only remaining work shirt right down the middle which meant she would be at work exposing herself. Then she tried to cover up her mistake by wearing a sweater over it, but her boss, who's a really grumpy guy who didn't like any of his employees to do any-thing even remotely off-ballense, when she got to work wearing a coat over her ruined shirt, then ordered her to take it off. When she refused it, he fired her for not following his directions exactly the way he wanted. He kicked her out of the office onto the street. That did it. She broke down and bawled right there in front of the whole world. She wailed, "Oh, Father, I have tried to cast all my cares upon You because You suposedly care for me! Why is it my prayers are not being answered? I've been trying to do what's right, but nothing has worked out like it's supposed to all day! I feel like a victim of Murphy's law since everything that could possibly go wrong has gone wrong for me on this day! I love You more then anything in the world! I have no Earthly people to love since I have no friends or family-members left on this whole planet, yet You've blessed me with a really huge heart since I do so much cardio activities every day! So that means I have got more love in me then anybody I know of! Why won't You grant me any of the desires of my heart? It's not at all fair! Please tell me the reason!"

No sooner had she said those words when the phone rang. It was her good friend, Amy who had an idea that she needed a phone call. When she told her about her terrible day, Amy laughed. Then as she kept on telling her more bad things she would chuckle even louder. After a while something came out of Sue's own mouth which sounded kind of like a chuckle. A few minutes later they were both laughing and holding their ribs. Amy said, "You know what I just thought of? The Bible says, 'A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.' Old King Solomon said that and he was the wisest man in history, so he was really the original, 'wise guy.' "

The Lord uses people to speak with His children that way. When you ever have a, "Murphy's Day," just remember what happened to Sue. Then take your mouth and turn those lips from an n shape into a u shape. In other words, make the corners face north instead of south. Remember what happened to Sue. She had an Indian tribe named after her, except they spelled her name wrong. Anyway, from that point on whenever she felt sad about any-thing, all she would do is remember the words of her dear friend. That's a motto for all of us to have. If you do not know what's a motto, I will say, "Nothing. What's a motto with you?" We all need to have some, "pun" in our lives and Jesus was, "the, 'Pun' of God," or the Son of God. That's because that, "Son" can shine on you and make your life be really great.

The end. By, Cuz Roye.