How Strange are the Ways of God!

Every action will have two results. Those that are seen externally and those that are felt internally. Our thoughts and emotions are also activities. Our inner thoughts and feelings influence others without our knowledge. So every individual has to take great care about the thoughts, desires and emotions that occur to our minds. Sometimes a wonderful thought strikes us like a flash amidst our common thoughts and emotions which gives us happiness and peace and changes the very nature of the world.

A poor ryot was walking along one day in Scotland. He heard someone cry “help! help!” When the ryot went to the place from where he heard the shouts, he saw a boy half submerged in a quagmire. The ryot saved the boy by pulling him out.

Next day a wealthy man dressed in a rich attire went to the ryot’s house. “You saved my son. I am grateful to you for your noble deed. I’ve come to give you a gift,” he said.

“Sir, I’ll not accept your gift. I performed my duty” replied the ryot.

A little boy standing by the ryot attracted the attention of the rich man. “Is that boy your son?” asked the rich man. The ryot nodded in agreement.

Then the wealthy man said “I’ll take the responsibility of rearing your son and educating him. He will grow big and do you proud.”

Some years passed. The little boy grew into the famous scientist, Sir Alexander Fleming who discovered penicillin.

Some more years passed. The rich man’s son fell sick with an illness which was considered fatal in those days. He suffered from Pneumonia. A remedy for the ailment was not discovered by then yet. The young boy was cured by the newly discovered penicillin injections.

The rich man was Lord Randolf Churchill. The boy who fell ill and recovered was Sir Winston Churchill.

We do not know which action gives rise to which activity and result. How strange are the deeds of God!

(* Translated from Telugu by D. Ranga Rao)