THE LORD CREATED
FIREMEN/PARAMEDICS

When the Lord was creating firefighters/paramedics, he was into his sixth day of overtime when an angel appeared and said, "You're doing a lot of fiddling around on this one." And the Lord said, "Have you read the specs on this order?"

"A firefighter/paramedic has to be able to go for hours fighting fires or tending to a person that the usual everyday person would never touch, while putting in the back of his mind the circumstances.

He has to be able to move at a seconds moment and not think twice of what he is about to do, no matter what the danger. He has to be in top physical condition at all times, running on black coffee and half-eaten meals. He has to have six pairs of hands."

The angel shook her head slowly and said, "Six pairs of hands....no way." "It's not the hands that are causing me problems," said the Lord, "it's the three pair of eyes a firefighter/paramedic has to have." "That's on the standard model?" asked the angel. The Lord nodded.

"One pair that sees through the fire and where he and his fellow firefighters should fight the fire next (when he already knows and wishes he'd taken that accounting job). Another pair here in the side of his head to see his fellow firefighters so as to keep them safe. And another pair of eyes in the front so that he can look for victims caught in the fire that need his help to be saved."

"Lord" said the angel, touching his sleeve, "rest and work on this tomorrow." "I can't," said the Lord.

"I already have a model that can carry a 250 pound man down a flight of stairs, in a burning building, to safety and can feed a family of five on a civil service paycheck."

The angel circled the model of the firefighter/paramedic very slowly. "Can it think?" she asked. "You bet," said the Lord, "it can tell you the elements of a hundred fires and can recite procedures in his sleep that are needed to care for a person until they reach the hospital, while keeping their wits about themselves."

"This firefighter/paramedic also has phenomenal personal control. He can deal with a scene full of pain and hurt, coaxing a child's mother into letting go of the child so that he can care for the child in need, and still does he rarely get recognition for a job well done from anybody, other than from his fellow firefighters/paramedics."

Finally the angel bent over and ran her finger across the cheek of the firefighter/paramedic. "There's a leak", she pronounced. "I told you that you were trying to put too much into the model."

"That's not a leak", said the Lord, "it's a tear." "What's the tear for?" asked the angel. "It's bottled-up emotions, for fallen comrades, for commitment to that funny piece of cloth called the American flag, which they have committed their lives to carrying and saving their fellow man's lives!"

"You're a genius", said the angel. The Lord looked somber.
"I didn't put it there", he said.

Anonymous



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