I am in a part of India, notorious for communalism and hate towards minority religions. While trains packed with them were burned and minority community women raped, the government turned a blind eye and the Supreme court acquitted almost everyone accused! So while I was skeptical my new surgical training involved the season of Lent and Easter, how would I find a church nearby and was thankful for online mass streaming.
So imagine my surprise when I walk into the operation theatre for my first case to only realise the scrub nurse is a devout catholic and belongs to a nearby church. As I spoke to her about how I could attend the holy week celebrations, she volunteered to take me there herself!! I was thankful, and in tears at His abundance of angels all across. Soon enough I met another nurse who is a protestant but volunteered information about all the catholic churches around the area and even designated a worker at the hospital to direct me there!
A lamp to my feet is your word,
a light to my path
While I look and seek for few moments of His wisdom in my hectic schedule, I notice how kind He is by helping me benefit, with small miracles every day and bumping me into people from different backgrounds and realities. While I lived in a bubble of a happy family and faithful living, my travels and learning have let me look at everyone with far less judgment and accept everyone around me as a child of God with something to offer, from the aged janitor to the lady who washes my clothes , the old man who cooks my meals and my short tempered teacher… I just realise how blessed I am everyday to live in finding such variety of personalities and still find Him smiling on me! I ensure to smile every morning and thank everyone personally for the contribution they have to my effort of learning!
Let us all not lose hope in the troubles and pettiness of our day and look and seek God in the few minutes we have by treating every human as a believer and spread Gods love more or less!
PRAYER:
Help and guide me oh Lord as I stand before you in a new place of my life! Help me place before you the good and the bad of each day.
Bless everyone reading this too!
Amen
