Sunday, August 31, 2014

AN ATTITUDE OF THANKSGIVING



We hear of Cancer - the most dreaded sickness that strikes so many people in so many ways.Last week I learnt about a teenage boy ( all of 15 years) diagnosed with terminal cancer and is given a couple of weeks to live. Although I have never met him, hearing this news yet again caused me to do some serious reflection. God has blessed us with this gift of life which so many of us has taken for granted..... and yet when the sickness strikes us, what do we do? Do we blame God or do we thank Him, cos' we know that He is the Author of our lives! This young boy knowing that he has a few weeks to live tells his parents not to cry or be sad but thank God for the gift of him to his family.All that he has on his lips is an ATTITUDE of thanksgiving, he tells his parents, he is going, yet he is happy cos' he is going to a better place.
If you ever visit Shanti Avedna or even the Tata Memorial Hospital, I am confident it will make you ponder on this precious gift of life. Who knows you too may have a total change of attitude....an ATTITUDE of just THANKSGIVING.

You see, it's not the date you were born or the date you die that really matters. What's important is the "in between period" and what you do with it. Stay Blessed.

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