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THE RIGHT RESPONSE TO A WRONG NUMBER

Our daughter, 20, is working as a receptionist at her dad’s steel fabricating company this summer. She’s doing a whale of a job by all accounts. She adds some much-needed class to the front desk as she answers the busy office phone.

Most callers are very nice. But yesterday, some woman on the phone demanded to speak to “the lab.” There’s no “lab” there, and our daughter thought she had misunderstood the caller.

“Who?” she asked politely.

“The LAB!” the woman retorted, obviously thinking, “. . . you idiot.”

Our daughter, ever gracious, calmly explained that the lady must have the wrong number, but got no apology, just a slammed-down phone.

If it’d been ME, I would have said, “Ohhhhh, THAT lab . . . the one where they make a PILL . . . like the one YOU need to take. . . .”

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Prayer request: Father, we lift up to You for encouragement and sustenance the Pentagon Police Department, which has suffered the slaying of an officer, the murder of an officer’s wife on vacation in Panama, the death of another’s wife, two car accidents that left one officer's stepdaughter partially paralyzed and another officer seriously injured, one female officer’s son shot on the streets of D.C. and nephew murdered because he spoke to the wrong girl, and yet another officer temporarily paralyzed from the neck down after a freak accident while wrestling with his brother. That’s about as much as any of us can take, Lord. We are grateful to hear they have a small prayer group that meets each day immediately after roll call. Hear them, Lord, and protect them. Let them know that those of us they, in turn, protect are very, very grateful. (1 Peter 5:7)