God works in the mysterious ways and most of the times we are unable to see or understand his wats, but yesterday we experienced the real thing, how God is at work and in control.
The way the events turned out seemed to be a small part of a bigger conspiracy that God had planned.
It was a chilly evening yesterday and we were warming up with some drinks and snacks in the living room. Almost 9 pm and we just felt that we could be short of drinks . It had never happened before that we would go out again to buy a second drink and that too when the temperature outside was freezing at 10 degrees. Nevertheless, Viki and I decided to take a quick drive to the shop and get it. As he parked his car and went out, an old lady stopped him and said something . I was still inside the car and thought may be she enquired about something. After a while she crossed the road and started approaching the people on the other side of the road. Viki was returning and started a little conversation with her while I was still watching from inside the car curious about it. As Viki came back, I asked him about it and he told that the lady is trying to sell some home cleaning detergents so that she could meet her daily target else she will lose her day wage of rs 300.She was short of selling just the last pack.
We saw her and felt she was genuine because it was no fun to be out on road at 930 pm in the cold winter night approaching strangers. We had only 200 bucks with us and the product cost was 280 . We looked at her from distance and saw no one was helping her by buying it. Then we decided to help her and Viki went and asked her to come across this side, wait for us while we go and withdraw from the ATM. She was so happy that she gave blessings to him. We quickly went and withdrew cash from ATM and while coming back we saw from distance that another guy handed over some cash (200 rs) to her but did not buy the product probably he too was short of money. Viki went to her with 500 rs note( we thought she might not have change). As soon as she saw Viki she said that the other guy just gave her 200 rs. Viki gave her 500 rs and got the cleansers, she handed over the 200 rs change that she apparently had just received from the other guy.
And she was super happy with the last piece sold out and danced with joy, saying that finally now she can go home. She kept giving blessings to my husband while I was witnessing the entire scene from inside the car.
Lessons from this incident:
- Humanity is not completely dead
- Try to help people in whatever possible way and capacity you can.
- Distinguish between fake and real happiness.
- Feel that strong sense of peace when you genuinely help someone.
- Happiness is subjective. For her a 300 rs per day was just enough to give her happiness while we spend it on useless unwanted stuff.
- Last but not the least, god is in control. God heard her prayers and turned the events in such a way that the three main characters, lady, that guy and Viki had to be present at the same place, same time. One needed money, one did not have enough money and third one had excess.
- The 200 rs that second guy handed over to her was the exact change that we were expecting from 500 rs purchase. Our 500 goes to her purse, his 200 rs comes to our wallet and at the end everyone goes home satisfied and happy. God gave to one but did not take from the other person. Everyone got their own share and no one lost anything.
That's how God works I guess. We are indeed grateful that God chose us as the medium to help someone who really needed it and he turned up the events in such a way that everything fell in the right place.
That is about this little story.
