In this world of restlessness, and busiest schedule routine life, we hardly find 'time to breath. oh yea time to breath also became a rare commodity just like to find pure water. Once I attended a Refresher's Course for College Lecturers in Bangalore, a speaker challenged us asking us do you have time to breath? properly breathing? He said we became either too busy or too lazy to breath properly and we are not giving the life giving Oxygen to our brain thereby we are behaving most awkwardly sometimes. He said take time to breath, give time to breath, real breath in and breath out. exercise sometimes make us to go on run and be habituated with this life giving process.
Hope you understand what he meant.
yes life has become so crushed and squeezed we often find very things we do we ought not to do. and we do not do what we ought to do.
Here I am going to share a beautiful incident that happened last month that is August 2014 in Melbourne.
we were searching for a rented house near the office for my son and we got it. I was very happy to be with him at this moment of shifting for I could help him in my own way. Keeping things in proper boxes to shift them easily. I was also happy because I am at his time to establish his rooms in orderly way thereby saving his time between job, church and home.
I kept all his important certificates like MS degree certificate, Citizen certificate and other important documents in a
hard plastic folder and kept it till the last moment with me so that I can be charge of them till I reach the new home.
When I reached the new home I was too tired and slept for a few hours and started to set the things in its places , I was opening all the bags and boxes and keeping the clothes in closet etc. Suddenly I remember I did not find the Hard plastic pink folder of the important documents. first I thought I must have kept them somewhere carefully and did not mind much. But I wanted to see them once again before I retire for the night. I searched in the known bags, but could not find. Early morning i searched and could not find. By evening I opened every bag and looked for them but did not find.
Now frantically I was searching every nook and corner of the house dishes, clothes, one by one suspected/unsuspected hidden places in the home.
"So at last I bursted out to my son telling him I am afraid I am not able to find your documents any where. I I am really afraid whether we lost them. I searched every nook and corner of the bag and baggage."
" dont worry mom,we will find them. Take rest we wont lost them"
The next day also I searched and told him that we lost them.
He got the gravity of the situation and he too searched everywhere but could not find. we come to conclusion that we lost them or forgot them in one of the friend's car who helped us in shifting the things .
so he called those friends and they searched in their cars and confirmed that they were not with them. Fearing we left them in the lift or near the lift and they were thrown out at the dustbins, he went back yard and looked out for them.
He was so desperate and so patient all through this time and at last he blurted out saying, " mom I told you not organize the things , many times but you did not stop , see what happened" after a few seconds, he added, " I did a mistake by shifting the house when you are here, I should have done it before you come" I
These words slapped me on my face. I could not lift up my face, gushes of emotional tears were drenching my soul, I could not say a single word, yes I did a wrong thing, but what I did was I did with a heart of a mother, what happened now, all chaos and hurt and anxiety.
I even could not sit on the only bed available to sit, as my heart was wrenching inside, I sat on the carpet squatted,
( you know my painful knees would not allow me to get up easily if once I chose to squatted on the floor.) My son went out again in search of the folder, I could no more cease my agony, I called upon the Lord , He is the very help in times of my need, " Lord you know my intentions, they are of good thoughts but not of evil, I only tried to be a help to my son, look what a mess I created, Oh Father help me ,let not any evil come upon my son due to my negligence, I am ready to be punished for my tresspasses , you punish me but not my son, I surrender all my life , even those dear things which I hold and which make me away from you, I surrender to you once again, ..."
Thus I prayed and found unexplainable peace explainable touched my soul, and again I was led to pray by His Spirit, and I continued to pray, Lord help my son or me to go to the place where those documents are there, I need your help Father." Thus I finished , in seconds I saw my son entered into the room and me telling him as if in a trance, " stretch your hand just once more and search if anything is there on the closet attic, just once more, oh yea only once more;'
He said, " I searched there already .no it is not there,"but any way he went near the closet, I said again just once....
Remember these words I did not know I would say, not contemplated before, I uttered just like that
.. he went there pushed his hand a bit reluctantly still saying that he was sure it wouldnt be there, but
imagine his hand pulled out the folder .... I could not believe my own eyes, my emotions are all mixed up, tears of joy recompose. and astonishment.... a sigh of great relief OH was all that I could utter, could not controle my emotions hide my face in my arms.. on my knees and sobbing with joy and relief.
The next question of astonishment was "mom who put it there" the immediate answer was "who else it must have me" and you and your friend pushed the things on it and it must had went to the rear side of the attic, and I thought you could see who place as you are almost that height... still in trance and shock and joy.
I remember now how Elizah pulled the axe from the river by throwing a branch of a tree, 2kings 6:1-7 we have wonderful God His teachings are wonderful. In the storms of this little life He would teach us to surrender and be still and depend on Him while doing even the daily chores of ordinary life. How beautiful is Thineways O Lord, they are bountiful and marvelous.
Teach me and I will learn, cleanse me and I will be yours.
Teach me and I will learn , cleanse me and I will be yours.
Hope you understand what he meant.
yes life has become so crushed and squeezed we often find very things we do we ought not to do. and we do not do what we ought to do.
Here I am going to share a beautiful incident that happened last month that is August 2014 in Melbourne.
we were searching for a rented house near the office for my son and we got it. I was very happy to be with him at this moment of shifting for I could help him in my own way. Keeping things in proper boxes to shift them easily. I was also happy because I am at his time to establish his rooms in orderly way thereby saving his time between job, church and home.
I kept all his important certificates like MS degree certificate, Citizen certificate and other important documents in a
hard plastic folder and kept it till the last moment with me so that I can be charge of them till I reach the new home.
When I reached the new home I was too tired and slept for a few hours and started to set the things in its places , I was opening all the bags and boxes and keeping the clothes in closet etc. Suddenly I remember I did not find the Hard plastic pink folder of the important documents. first I thought I must have kept them somewhere carefully and did not mind much. But I wanted to see them once again before I retire for the night. I searched in the known bags, but could not find. Early morning i searched and could not find. By evening I opened every bag and looked for them but did not find.
Now frantically I was searching every nook and corner of the house dishes, clothes, one by one suspected/unsuspected hidden places in the home.
"So at last I bursted out to my son telling him I am afraid I am not able to find your documents any where. I I am really afraid whether we lost them. I searched every nook and corner of the bag and baggage."
" dont worry mom,we will find them. Take rest we wont lost them"
The next day also I searched and told him that we lost them.
He got the gravity of the situation and he too searched everywhere but could not find. we come to conclusion that we lost them or forgot them in one of the friend's car who helped us in shifting the things .
so he called those friends and they searched in their cars and confirmed that they were not with them. Fearing we left them in the lift or near the lift and they were thrown out at the dustbins, he went back yard and looked out for them.
He was so desperate and so patient all through this time and at last he blurted out saying, " mom I told you not organize the things , many times but you did not stop , see what happened" after a few seconds, he added, " I did a mistake by shifting the house when you are here, I should have done it before you come" I
These words slapped me on my face. I could not lift up my face, gushes of emotional tears were drenching my soul, I could not say a single word, yes I did a wrong thing, but what I did was I did with a heart of a mother, what happened now, all chaos and hurt and anxiety.
I even could not sit on the only bed available to sit, as my heart was wrenching inside, I sat on the carpet squatted,
( you know my painful knees would not allow me to get up easily if once I chose to squatted on the floor.) My son went out again in search of the folder, I could no more cease my agony, I called upon the Lord , He is the very help in times of my need, " Lord you know my intentions, they are of good thoughts but not of evil, I only tried to be a help to my son, look what a mess I created, Oh Father help me ,let not any evil come upon my son due to my negligence, I am ready to be punished for my tresspasses , you punish me but not my son, I surrender all my life , even those dear things which I hold and which make me away from you, I surrender to you once again, ..."
Thus I prayed and found unexplainable peace explainable touched my soul, and again I was led to pray by His Spirit, and I continued to pray, Lord help my son or me to go to the place where those documents are there, I need your help Father." Thus I finished , in seconds I saw my son entered into the room and me telling him as if in a trance, " stretch your hand just once more and search if anything is there on the closet attic, just once more, oh yea only once more;'
Remember these words I did not know I would say, not contemplated before, I uttered just like that
.. he went there pushed his hand a bit reluctantly still saying that he was sure it wouldnt be there, but
imagine his hand pulled out the folder .... I could not believe my own eyes, my emotions are all mixed up, tears of joy recompose. and astonishment.... a sigh of great relief OH was all that I could utter, could not controle my emotions hide my face in my arms.. on my knees and sobbing with joy and relief.
The next question of astonishment was "mom who put it there" the immediate answer was "who else it must have me" and you and your friend pushed the things on it and it must had went to the rear side of the attic, and I thought you could see who place as you are almost that height... still in trance and shock and joy.
I remember now how Elizah pulled the axe from the river by throwing a branch of a tree, 2kings 6:1-7 we have wonderful God His teachings are wonderful. In the storms of this little life He would teach us to surrender and be still and depend on Him while doing even the daily chores of ordinary life. How beautiful is Thineways O Lord, they are bountiful and marvelous.
Teach me and I will learn, cleanse me and I will be yours.
Teach me and I will learn , cleanse me and I will be yours.
