Thought for the DAY

The noble staff of the AMBOY Center:
In every age there are people, friends, philosophers and guides to extend their motivating talents to people who can’t reach them. I remember having met mother Theresa once in Santacruz, Mumbai, where, after her smiling bliss she had signed a card for my son who was then 16-year-old on my request, with a quote “Deepak you are not alone. God is with you now and always.” with her sign below. But before writing she asked me “what is your son’s name?” “Deepak” was my reply.
The memories never fade, they are piled up in the library of my heart adding many more on occasions to mark the Goodness that is showered as a boon.
Today looking at the bags in front of me, full with ample nutrition, I really burst into tears, not that the food is everlasting commodity, but with the feeling from the core of my heart, a feeling of gratitude, feeling of thankfulness to the people who serve behind the curtain and the hands that reach the abled and disabled people in this time of need-which means a lot. More than a lot, rather when the words fail to express the unsaid feelings in this time of HOME STAY, as designed by nature to really learn to appreciate what is in front of us, A REALTY of our being. In daily lives we do understand the underlying meaning of words that we have been repeatedly hearing saying. But DOING is what is to be appreciated. At this point now I am feeling that it is not happiness that makes one greatful but gratefullness that makes one happy.

I just pick up the phone but words fail to express my thankfulness, still I could feel the thrill of happiness in my heart that these are the extended hands of my master, the Creator that reach me and many more like me who live alone, unable to go out do you bring necessities for themselves. And, here I hear a voice “What do you want my child,” and that is it: everything one could need to survive for many days without worry in this time of testimony, to believe in the Creator who has extended sources to reach us as the rays of the sun.
With thankfulness to all the hands that call to reach us, offer, take care and deliver at the door. This is an inspiring thought that has entered my heart as a quote of RUMI: “It is really like a dear guest visiting me that day’
Devi Nangrani
30 April, 2020