Story

I was watching an ad on TV. A famous personality was trying to convince viewers that AIDS is not contagious, that those suffering from AIDS need not be insolated. My mind went back to a story my mother told me many years ago when I was a child. There was a woman who was young, intelligent, educated to the extent they allowed women to be educated in those days.She had a year-and-a-half-old daughter. Her family was in deep distress as both her younger sisters lay covered with smallpox,which was then a feared contagious disease, and often fatal. The younger of the two sisters was close to death. At some point during her illness, she noticed her elder sister by her bedside, and asked to see her little neice. The older sister looked at her and a few minutes later returned with her baby girl, ignoring all the whispered admonitions from well-meaning members of thee family, and defiantly held her baby over for sister to see and touch. A hush fell over the room as the dying sister ruffled the baby's ringlets, smiled and contently closed her eyes. She succumbed to the disease later.

In this case theee disease was contagious. but the woman hung on to her courage and faith in God that nothing would happen to her baby, and did what she thought was the right thing to do. the woman was my mother. I was the child. Maybe i had a healthy life because i was blessed by my aunt in her last hour. My mother had left me in God's care with faith and without question. Nothing happened to me. I have crossed a neat 50 and am raring to cover the rest.

Today we are worried about every little that might hurt our lives and take a number of precautions, even when they are not necessary, without worring about the needs of others. By her act of faith my mother taught me a lesson in courage, love and selflessness. What would I have thought of her when I grew up, had my mother not granted my aunt's dying wish? Sometimes we should do a particular thing just because it needs to be done at a particular time, without thinking of the cosequences, and leave the rest to God.