This slender stem of a grass bush was tossing in strong wind. I watched this dragon fly loose its grip and having to come back to rest on the stem. After a few attempts to steady itself against the strong wind, it changed its hold on the grass. It descended its body and tightened its grip in an embracing posture. For the next fifteen minutes, I stayed to watch this dragon fly, it was thrown off only once in between! It was helpless and desperate, but held on!
I carried message with me as I walked back home! The winds of life are real! Having seen hundreds in our neighbourhood suffering after the floods in August 2018, I realise how many of them have been dislodged from their normalcy of existence!
How do we hold on when we feel helpless or overcome by our vulnerability!
I remember one occasion during our stay at Chennai of similar helplessness. The landlord of the house where we lived for five years, wanted us to vacate our house two months before Arpit was due to take the entrance tests for his professional course admissions. We had no where to go and it was difficult to find a house close by to, where we were living. After we felt exhausted at the end of two months of efforts, late Sr Mary Theodore, of MITHRA, a rehabilitation centre for children at Anna Nagar offered her gust house for us to stay. We stayed for two months in two rooms and supported Arpit to prepare for his entrance tests. He qualified to get into CMC Vellore. A newly built house was offered to us at the end of this, which was where we lived for the next seven years till we left Chennai to go to CMC vellore in 1997.
We would get unsettled and would even suffer indifference from people whom we have come to trust and depend upon.
That is when, we are to be even more steadfast to hold on to the hope of finding our way through the slippery path! That is what would give us an increasing sense of the experience of the goodness of God and kindness of others from unexpected sources!
Hold on to life and the calling! God's favour is upon all of us, no matter how much we are responsive to him or not!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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