WHEN SORRY DOESN’T COUNT
I love spending as much time as possible with the kids over
the weekend. So I decided to take my daughters and my nieces and a nephew
swimming at one of the popular hotels in town.
All the 5 kids were excited about the day out and so rushed
to the bathrooms to change as soon as we got to the health club. I went in to
help my 2year old daughter change as I was sure she will ask to get into the
water. The older kids run out one after the other as soon as they were done
dressing up leaving me in the changing room. When the little one was done
dressing up, we walked out to join the rest in the pool.
What met my eyes caused a terrible adrenaline rush. Some
people were bringing down party lights from a previous event and the lights which
were running across the pool were dropping into the swimming pool water.
Oh my God, get out of the water, I shouted, seeing all our
kids in the pool with a coach who did not seem to have thought about the
potential risk. I didn’t want to know whether they had switched off the main
switch or they were confident that the lines of lights did not have any possible
area of power leakage. All I knew is that anything can happen and all I will
hear is sorry.
How can someone fail to take such basic precaution? I was
annoyed. What shocked me even more was noticing that after keeping the kids out
of the water for almost 5minutes to wait for these service providers to finish
their work. The service providers disappeared to do I don’t know what leaving the
one side of the party lights hanging in the pool. There was clearly no urgency
and no thought put into what they were doing.
Thank you God for protecting your people even when we do the
dumbest of things sometimes. I just can’t get over it.
Father, I thank you for watching over us and our children. I thank you Lord that the children had fun today and no harm or scheme of the evil one came near them. I pray father that we shall continue to bask in your goodness and protection all the days of our lives. May you give all parents and child caretakers wisdom to care and watch over the children that you entrust us with. In Jesus' name I pray.
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