A family who visited us found the flowers engaging and said, ' I wish life can be so colourful'!
That reflected the aspiration of that person.
That is the aspiration of many!
Mother Teresa while visiting the home of a senior citizen found an old lantern in the corner covered in dust. The sisters who accompanied her cleaned the lantern and lighted it which added to the decor of the room. The senior citizen who was sitting in a dark corner walked up to the lantern and sat beside. For a few days the sisters came to light he lantern and spend some time with him. A few days later, when the sisters arrived, the lantern was already lit and the senior citizen confessed that he did not light it ever since his wife passed away few yeas ago.
The light had gone out of his life and could not move beyond that loss in his life ! He felt loved and cared for through the kind gestures of the sisters of Missionaries of Charity.
A few weeks later the senior citizen joined the sisters to visit others in the locality who lived alone or could not move about or home bound due to sickness.
We can make life colourful in small ways by expressing acts of kindness !
Anna and I experience this! A family visited us two days ago, just because they wanted to meet us!
We can make life colourful for others when they are given attention!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
No comments:
Post a Comment