Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
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"Poora 2 1/2 yearssodaa!!" I playfully said , to Jayden when he was trying to avoid me , fearing his mom would leave him and go to the mercy of my protection.
Immediately, he answered , "no , I am not Ssoda.. I am Jayden"
It took me a minute what he means of this word, later I realized he could understand yearssoda in that sense. (years+ soda Only Telugu knowing people could understand this anecdote.
He runs to me and says to me" ammamma I love you" and thank me for all the little things i do for him.
The other day, we both had a walk on sidewalk of the neighborhood I was trying to show him the little flowers and admiring them.
He coolly said, " I do not like flowers"
Astonished was I, and confirmed it asking him again , whether he really mean it. He answered again the same way in the same tone.
"Oh i said, then what do you like?" I asked him.
"I like big big trees." pointing at the tip of a big tree , lifting his little face towards the sky .
This little man is hardly 2 and half years and not even measures up to my knee, I smiled and told him ,
"But i love flowers, because God loves flowers, and He created them in different colors and sizes, Look this little flower here and that big flower there".
He was silent for a minute and said, " oh then i too like flowers."
"I don't come to you," he answered me.
I was being avoided since i come here, 15 days passed away, but this little man is not coming to me to love him. I was little sad too. This one has been changed, this one is not like the one with whom I used to play with in my last visit.
He used to come to me every morning and sit in mylap and sing the song " chirakala senhithuda"
I sighed. and about to leave the room and then I heard suddenly, something from this one, which bombarded me all together. I could not believe my own ears,
" you took my room:"
"What ? What did you say? I repeated, not able to believe what he was saying.
His dad was there in that room and he answered for me,
" he says that you took his room." Later while i was climbing the steps, he also said, "you go to India"
Oh that is the reason why this little fellow was avoiding me all together?
wow , what an individualistic thought!! And this little head was hurt, because I occupied his room for which he was accustomed all through his 2 and half years of little life.
What can I do? I have to stay here, because the basement room was too cold, and I dare not go and settle there, fearing the cramps of my legs and shoulders, I cannot suffer any more as I had this experience last year, and the year before too. Cant help, I murmured to myself.
I was praying , James and Happy , Jessica and Jayden and myself standing in the hall, suddenly I was jerked , less than a half a minute Jayden hugged my legs and retreated back. smiling at me. What happened was an incident which comes as a sign from God all ways, to me, to show His presence.
Later his attitude towards me started to change bit by bit. I know there is power in the prayer, and it does it work, even when we least expected the results,, words are not important, what we asked for is not important, the very presence of His while we pray is all that matter.
Now more than one month is over, now he comes into terms and tried to share his room with me. And accepted the fact, that I need to live in that room at any cost.
What to do, life is full of adjustments and adaptations, not only to me but for this little man too. after all the better we adjust or adapt to new surroundings and people, the better we improve our personality. Its an index of the growth of personality. So both Jayden and me are in process of adapting ourselves to new situations. God bless him.
When I say , "hey little man", he answers me immediately " no I am not, I am boy, and jayden." Yes that is jayden, a great little being.
He loves the Rail engine. In fact must say that he is obsessed with it , when I arrived a month back, even now he is having a great soft corner for the Rail Engine by name Thomas. He constructs the rail way, and shows me all the little compartments attached to the engine.
He would be in reverie when he talks about the engine Thomas and Percy, James and Edward, all rail engines. He loves their colors and explains them to me vehemently having colors in his eyes.
One day I was telling Jessica about the story of Jesus and his disciples, telling the names of them one by one. When I come to the name Thomas , he was thrilled so much and telling me,' Ammamma, Thomas Thomas, " I wondered for a minute not able to come out of the serious story of Jesus, why he like disciple Thomas so much, then I realized after a minute, that he means Rail Engine Thomas.
( Here I remembered my own son john, once his dad promised him that he would buy bunyans , when we were listening to the word of God the preacher mentioned, John Bunyan ( author of Pilgrim progress) my son started to should enthusiastically My bunyan my bunyan, --- great, we think children are not listening al that we speak, They look like that they do not listen, but remember not even iota, or comma or full stop do not go away from their little ears and attention.)
Jayden sings a song for the Rail engine, " I am working on railways, chuk chuk chuk chuk.." continously while he literally prostrates at the engine, he talks to the engine, and tells story to himself while kneeling at the engine.
( will be continued.....)
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