When Hearts Embrace Hearts-12 | Let’s Polish it with Gold!

When Hearts Embrace Hearts-12

Let’s Polish it with Gold!

Ten year old girl! Her father is dead. Her mother started to work as a maid to support the family. Unfortunately, she met with an accident and got bedridden. The onus fell on the tiny shoulders of this small girl to take care of the family. She quickly learnt to cook food. A tiny hut thatched with abandoned plastic sheets became roof over their heads in a dump yard. A media person, through some means came to know about this girl, reached the hut and started covering it. While shooting the poignant scenes of the ten-year old cooking, nursing her bed-ridden mother, and sending her younger siblings to schools, he asked her, “Where do you get the courage to do all these at such a young age?”

In an innocuous way, the ten-year replied, “We don’t have anyone else. So I have to do it.”

That’s all. She didn’t wait for anybody. She realized the power inside her. Faced and confronted the treacherous outside world with guts and determination. These words are imperceptible advice to all those who take cover under the blankets of despair with broken heart while facing a minor trouble.

Kahlil Gibran narrates a story:

A man got stuck on the terrace of a high rise building. Nobody walking on the streets could hear his cries for help. He had some coins in his pocket. He started throwing it down, thinking someone while picking it up may look upwards. But, nobody looked up. All of them picked the coins and walked away. He was left with no more coins. He saw a heap of small pebbles lying nearby. He started throwing it one after another. All those who got hit by the pebbles started looking up shouting angrily.

According to Gibran, people behave this way in life too. They enjoy the blessings. And grumble and grieve over sorrows.

That heart is fortunate which is capable to accept adverse experiences. In Japan, they follow a tradition. When utensils break, the broken area is fixed and polished with gold. The utensil now looks beautiful ever more. There are cracks in life too, and tattered conditions. We too have to to do the same without bewilderment.

Through faith, we need to gold polish self-confidence. There is an incident in the scripture about the loss of the son of Prophet, Jacob. “Let there be splendid patience. Lord is there to help me at this juncture.”

When he patiently waited with hope, he got back all those which he had lost. We too can redeem it. But, are we patient enough to wait long and endure it? Miracles will take place in this life itself!

Do you know the happiest moment a woman experience in her life? When she endures the most painful moment of her life! How true!