As If I Really Could (standard:humor, 906 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: Jul 25 2023	Views/Reads: 297/157	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
Sometimes it is better not to correct something but rather “suffer for well doing.” I’m still trying to learn that.

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and, eventually, a drop or two of blood. But it might be worth it if I 
do it correctly. 

Not too long after, she called on me for another fix-it project. I had
gone over this plot in my mind 100 times and was hoping it would work. 

She appeared at the door of my office one morning and asked, "Can you
help me fix something? I've been working on it all morning. I just 
cannot get it right." Then she flashed a smile at me. 

I flashed a smile back and followed her to her latest fix-it project.
She had a dresser on the back porch she was trying to fix. One drawer 
was stuck, and she could not get the screw out to enable the drawer to 
come out. 

She handed me the screwdriver and said, "I just can't get that screw
out." 

I sighed very deeply because I knew that it was now or never. I bent
over with the screwdriver to be a little bit out of her sight, and as I 
was working on the screw, I pinched my left thumb so that it would 
start to bleed, and then I yelled, "Ouch." 

I turned around and showed her my bloodied thumb, and boy, was it
paining. She looked at me rather frightened and said, "Come with me to 
the bathroom, and I'll fix your thumb." 

Some things are worth it. 

I couldn't help but think of a verse in the Bible, “For it is better, if
the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil 
doing” (1 Peter 3:17). 

Sometimes it is better not to correct something but rather “suffer for
well doing.” I'm still trying to learn that.


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