WHEN GOD GUIDES (When we speak foolishly......Some times God intervenes) The House

That night I prayed  and he prayed, we told our loving Father who understands everything and  makes everything right, in His beautiful way. we retired to our beds, leaving everything into His Fatherly hands.
The next day my husband went to the bank and paid s. Rs.7000 in the bank and took the challan and submitted it in the Muncipal office.  They coolly said to come and see them , after two days. They were so reckless, and did not give any hint that they would do the work.  My husband went to the Muncipal office after two days, they asked him to see them the next day, and the next day.  They never answer the position of the our situation, neither yes  or no. Just postponing the things, and asking him to come again and again. 
Everyday I was anxiously asking my husband about the happening of the muncipal tap permission.  Every day he was with an answer that they were not giving permission. So we keep on praying for this issue. 
   One day I said , " Tomorrow is second saturday,  Mrs umadevi's husband, Mr Subramanyam garu would be at home. ( He was working in Rajahmundry Muncipality,  Previously he was working in Eluru Muncipality.) let us ask his advice about this tap connection"   My husband accepted my advice , as Mr. Subramanyam was a very good friend of us, we both went to their house, in next street.  After hearing our predictment, he laughed and said, " Why you are worried so much, those people in the Muncipality are like that only, but you have a relative by name Mr. Neelakantam garu who used to work here. You just tell him , he will do it immediatly." --- I said, " But he is working in Vizag , know,  how can he help us?" ---- "oh , ( he laughed loudly) don't you know that he is Muncipal commissioner and he is incharge of West Godavari , East Godavari, and Vizag districts. " --
   so we both went to the Telephone booth, as we did not have telephone, those days, and called him, ( he was the best friend of my father and also related to us. he had great regard for my dad, my father left for heavenly abode in the year 1992,  that is 2 years before.) So when I introduced myself once again and told him about  the water tap connection, and our predictment. He just laughed and said," Oh Leela, do not worry amma, I am coming to Eluru tomorrow, ask ABBAYI ( son, ie your husband)  to meet me in Muncipal guest house. Give me his office phone number , I will call him" So we did so. 
This Muncipal guest house is just opposite to the Office where my husband was working. i.e., A.E.N Rly office. 
The next day he came and called my husband and asked him to sit along with him on sofa, and all those engineers were just standing in front of him to take his orders, he told them, it seems, " see this is my son in law, my daughter applied for water tap connection, sanction it under my quota. ( His quota is of only Rs. 3500)  So the next day, early morning by 9 o' clock the workers from the Muncipal office came with a plea telling us,  that they brought the challan of Rs. 7000/  and gave it to us, and asked us to cancell it and take another challan for Rs. 3500/  and five it to them. When my husband said that he would submit it in the office that morning , they said " No sir, we will come and take, we will come to work for the pipes connection to the Water tank which is nearby park"   This is another surprise for us.  We later come to know from them, that till then the water pipes were connected to Water reservoir which was too far from our house, the old tap which we lost was also connected to the Water reservoir, but now we are going to get this new connection to the new Water tank which is going to be inaugurated after two days, ( ie 16th March 1994) Can you understand our joy , the inner joy , the mirth in our hearts and eyes? )    The workers came and worked humbly, attentively, quickly, without any fuss as they used to in other cases.  On 16th March the connection was given, the water was so forceful and I was literally jumping up and down while I connected rubber tube to the tap in my home and the water was so full and plenty so I asked my neighbors if they need water, and supplied the water to them.   The old tap water was connected to distant reservoir so the they hardly get water for half an hour, and that too in less force, like drops of water. 
How we were stopped to fall into less blessing, and how we were forced to jump into the abundant blessing of plenty of water!! It was just like the story of Isaac of old. Genesis 26:12-25) Isaac dug wells, but there was strife and hatred, Mathew Henry's concise commentry--Isaac met with opposition with digging wells.Two were called Contention and Hatred See the nature of world things; They make quarrels, and are occasions of strife;  and what is often the lot of the most quiet and peaceable" those who avoid striving , yet cannot avoid being striven with An what a mercy it is to have plenty of water; to have without striving for it! 
when men are  false and unkind , still God is faithful and gracious, and his time to show himself so is, when we are most disappointed by men. 

You know later the same neighbor became our good friend after many many strife of this sort.  He used to come to my home to give me the very tasty drumsticks of his backyard, and some times his wife sends through him mango pickle are breakfast .. with tasty pickles.   His only son used to hear the word of God we preach , and he became christian, and married a christian girl. They are orthodox Hindus.   

when you speak foolishly.....

                   This is how things would go out of your hand and mine. We intend to do good, but people are too clever to apply different motives to our intentions.  Then we feel sorry, utterly disappointed, and frustrated. The word of God is our solace all the time,  When our motive is pure and clean, God in His own time make everything to become good . Right?                   Only thing is just we need to check what we did and how we did it, when we did it. If there is a mistake of time and person to whom we talked  was not right , still there is hope in Him that He can make things for good for them who love God.    

                             The Potter when He finds the lump of clay is not formed into the desired form, He will deform that lump of clay , and take it into His hands and again , patiently He will work on it and make it into the pot He desired it should be. 

                   We have all loving God, who can understand us, all times, Who will make our foolish things into right things with His benevolent heart.  Only thing is we have to realize our mistake at His feet and accept His chastisement and ask His forgiveness.

                    That is all  then, what we spoke where we spoke how we spoke with whom we spoke when we spoke... every thing will be in His hands and make it beautiful in His own time.

                         We purchased a house, a partition  of house, four rooms at a stretch, and with a little back yard  and side yard. When we first saw the house there was a tap inside the back yard. But to the other person of the other part of the house had a well, and steps. so naturally we believed the water tap belongs to us. That was the understanding between the owner of the house and us while we negotiate the house to purchase. Our neighbor was the teacher of the owner long time ago so , the owner had soft corner of the heart for our neighbor  in these negotiations.  

That too,  our neighbor bought the portion one year before to us. so the things were intact, the boundaries were just as shown in the documents.

           But alas the day we went for the final talks to sign on the documents we found the neighbor had built parapet wall crossing the boarder , so that the municipal tap would go into his back yard. 

             We both did not think of fighting or asking him to take away the wall, never in our lives then or till this moment, while I type this article. Just now I am thinking why we did not ask the person to take away the crossed wall which was not into his boundaries. Whatever we never asked or mentioned it then. 

      That night before we sign the final documents, right in front of the owner and document writer, we both prayed kneeling down at our beds.  we both prayed alike and after we got up from our knees, we both talked and came to a conclusion . we both thought of telling the neighbor  that we would give half of the expenditure of the new tap to him and wanted to ask him to give away the old tap to us. This was our final decision before we retire to beds.  

            Actual cost for the new tap was Rs,7000/ deposit  but we both know that the bribers in the Municipal office would not give us the tap, at once, but would ask us to come again and again to get the tap sanctioned. So in order to avoid that situation we opted for the old tap and ready to offer 

/Rs. 3500/ in order to get theold tap.

          While the negotiations were going on, we both spoke alike saying,' If you take the tap, you need to give Rs.3500// to us, or if we take the tap, we will give the same amount to you  to get new tap connection."  ----As it is the person already intended to get the tap and already built a wall crossing the border, how we could expect him to go back for the new tap and all the hurdles to face , leaving the all ready existing tap/?  No way , he liked the idea, but he liked the idea of giving away the half expenditure, and retain the old tap.  

            After coming out of the room , as it was visible to every one sitting there we were utterly taken advantage, in silence we made an exit.       

          After a few minutes on our way to home we both regretted for the way we spread the cards on the table.  We , instead of just saying ,  'We give Rs. 3500/ to you and leave the tap to us,' --We spoke a little extra and said , if you need tap you give the amount and retain the tap." ------ It was a foolish , useless , brain less uttering.   We both realized it. we both felt ashamed of our selves for we did not know how to talk in front of worldly wise people.   By talking so foolishly we landed into the same hot soup of a number of trips to Municipal office in order to get new connection.

             But what to do, what was said was said, we cannot take the word again, the signatures were taken, and he paid the amount too, to get rid of us as soon as possible. and here we both are , my husband, and me, heads bending, mouths shutting, and blurring of brain.. reached home, astonishingly saying to one another, ' oh why we said so.. oh why"  There is no answer there, except our foolishness of talk so visible right in front of our eyes.  With a big sigh we just stretched our plea in front of our All mighty ,loving God, who understands us above our hearts and minds.(   next -- you will see how all things work beautifully , wonderfully , marvelously above our expectations  for good, for them who love God.)-- To be continued