O Lord! Help Us to Understand You.

O Lord! Help Us to Understand You.

Whenever big natural disasters like Tsunami, Hurricans, Floods etc. or manmade destructions like ISIS’s mass murders, 9/11, etc. take place it is often seen that we start questioning about the existence, or non-existence of the God. We tend to do so because we have inadequate minds to assess the happenings in the universe. We can’t comprehend the entire process of the universe.

Today’s morning assembly of class VII was based on the theme ‘Friendship’.

It began with a beautiful thought, “We should let our enemies have 100s of opportunities to become our friend but we should not give even one chance to our friend to become our enemy.”

 Children presented very beautiful thoughts, speeches, poems and sang songs related to friendship.

While listening to the students many thoughts went through my mind as to who are our good friends. Inspite of all our goodness we all come across friends who at times for some reason do things or say things that gives us pain. But still we long for them and run after them. On the other hand there is one source or one energy from which we receive our strength and sustenance, but yet become so selfish that we don’t even try to befriend this source and be grateful to it.

We may have faith in the existence of God or not. But we can’t deny the existence of a Power or an Energy that is controlling the entire universe. We can’t just get away with a scientific definition that the gigantic masses of bodies in the universe are floating in the space due to gravitational pulls of each other. Who has set them in the fixed orbits? Who has fixed the galaxies to be where they are?

What does it mean to befriend the God or the Lord or for that matter the Power or the Energy.

What does it means to me is to accept Its presence all around us?

It is this Power or this Energy or in other words the Lord or the God Himself who controls everything.

 He as well as His ways are incomprehensible for mere mortals like us.

All that we need to do is in good times we can appreciate Him and His creation and during tragedies or difficulties learn to accept the happenings with grace.

If I can appreciate the beautiful colours of the flowers around me and the chirpings of birds and the murmur of a flowing river then oh Lord please also bless me with a mind to be in awe of your Supreme Power or Energy when we see things that our under developed minds are not able to comprehend or for that matter enable us to comprehend them as big tragedies that it is all part of your doing and you can’t do anything that is wrong.

30^th April 2015

Wrong Parenting

Wrong Parenting

“ Mummy ! Am I a bad boy?” Sweet voice of a boy drew my attention.

It was early morning of 8^th February 2015 and I was sitting on my seat in all readiness to alight at Shaktinagar. I had boarded Triveni: Express night before at Allahabad where I had gone for inspecting a school at the behest of CBSE.

The boy who was asking the question was almost in tears. I couldn’t see them because they were sitting in the next coup of the compartment. From the conversation I could make out that the little boy was travelling with his parents and his paternal uncle.

Mother of the child responded by saying.

” No Dear! Why are you asking so?”

To the boy again responded by saying “ Mummy, Papa says I’m a bad boy. Please tell me am I a bad boy?”

Before the mother could respond his paternal uncle responded by saying, “Forget your case son, your father is bad himself.” To this the boy said, “ No, he is not bad, he is my papa,” His uncle retorted with explanation, “Your Papa is bad himself because see he is eating away the chips from your packet.” The boy literally went into tears and I could make out that he must have gone into his mother’s lap for being helped out.

His mother tried to cajole him for a while and said, “Don’t cry my baby”, and scolded both her husband and her brother-in-law for bullying such a small boy.