The message was curt and was to the point …
I had smiled to myself and had moved on to the next message…
Obviously the mail must have been sent by a practical joker…
In an hour's time, I had received the most beautiful bouquet I had ever seen in my life: the attached note had simply said,
“With Blessings, From God!”
This time, I just couldn't control myself and had bursted out laughing! Some one must be playing a really nice game with me! I had started wondering as to whom that some one might be! I had mentally tick-marked all my family members and had tried to recollect the details of all my friends, colleagues and neighbors… someone with such a refined sense of humor!
Within the next couple of hours, I had received a wonderful dress of my most favorite color, with an instruction for me to wear it for the so-called meeting with the God: attached with the dress was an advisory note asking me to prepare the questions I might like to ask God, when I will meet Him!
By now, I had reached a stage wherein I didn't know whether to laugh or to cry. In an unconscious level, I had even started believing a bit of this wholesome joke!
Why to trust this? Then again why not? The dress was as though tailor-made for my measurements and the note was scrolled in a handwriting which I had never ever seen in my life! What was going on?
Would God be really coming to meet me? Why only me and why not the rest of the world as well? What should I do now? Should I start preparing the questions as per the note or laugh this whole thing off as a planned attack on my sanity?
I had decided to get into this more rationally! Now, the accurate measurements of my dress had cleared all my suspicion on my neighbors and friends. Even within the family, not many people knew of my dress measurements! Except my husband, who used to buy me the ready made dress from time to time and my tailor who had died recently, no on else knows my exact measurements to order for the dress and that too on my favorite color!
With the suspicious needle narrowed down to one single person, my husband, I had ventured into his study where he was working on an official project and was about to confront him on this, when the door bell rang and in came a group of his friends! The next one hour was spent in preparing delicacies for their hospitality. Once they all had started dipping deep into the project in hand and into the plateful of snacks I had presented before them, I had felt relieved enough to dwell on me and on my meeting with my Creator!
The way my husband was working feverishly on his official project had convinced me that he was not the one who had planned this whole episode with all these meticulous details: then who could this be?
Still not convinced, I had entered into my room and was immediately distracted by the sound of the ringing of the phone bell: I had lifted the phone and had said hello and within seconds, a voice, well-modulated, so nice to hear to, so spectacular in the ebbs and flows of the words and in the rhythm of talking had said, “Hello!” and the breath-taking hello was followed by the question: “still not convinced of our meeting today?”
“God…” I had blurted out!
“Is that really you?”
The voice had smiled: “of course, this is really me! I perfectly understand your confusion, disbelief, the theory of the practical joke and all such things you have been thinking since morning, but this is really me!”
“Will…will you be meeting me at that appointed time then”?
Now my curiosity has been replaced by my utmost willingness to meet my Creator, my Keeper and my comfort zone to whom I had rushed to from time to time with all my joys, sorrows, cries and comforts!
How many times I must have asked Him, “Why did you do this to me God?”
He had never answered me as to,” Why Not?”
But then, I had realized that down the line all my whys had ended up into wonderful solutions, though at the point of time of my having gone through the why factor, it was looking as though God was plotting all against me!
I had remembered the times when I had wanted to hug God and had wanted to thank Him for so many great things in my life!
