By Chinku
Recently, I received a message on my phone—one of those WhatsApp good morning messages. But this one really touched my heart and set me reflecting. It said something to the effect that “God’s timing is perfect. Believe it, trust it and allow it!”
A few days ago, I experienced the perfect timing of God. I am not a fitness freak, but yet, I ensure that I do my health check-up every year regularly, mainly to monitor things and make sure that my basic biological values are okay. My personal belief is that each person has to take responsibility for their own mental and physical health, rather than wait till the eleventh hour for things to break down and then trouble oneself and others around.
As it happened, I hadn’t got my regular check-up done in quite a while. It remained at the back of my mind that it would be better for me to get it done soon. But the pandemic situation and the fear of stepping out and being unnecessarily exposed to the outside world held me back.
It so happened that one day, after my usual coffee and all, I experienced racing heart-beats. My heart seemed to be galloping like a racehorse! I knew it was nothing biological but a buildup of the anxiety of stepping out. Deep within, I felt that this was the right time now for me to take courage and get going to the lab.
After many months, I got into an auto. I passed by familiar roads. I got to the lab and did the necessary formalities. I found that my heart had calmed down. I felt a sense of triumph at having made it to the lab!
Many other people had come to the lab too. I discovered that I still had courage to face them and to handle all the needle-pricks I needed to go through if I wanted my health check-up done! After spending over two hours there, I headed to my parents’ home, where I spent two days. A major highlight of my stay there was the time I spent observing a mother cat and her kittens. Quietly reflecting on things, I felt that if that morning I had not got experienced those racing heart-beats, I would not have had the courage to step out and get my health check-up done. God had helped me overcome my fear! To overcome my fear, I had to go through the racing heart-beats.
Sometimes, when adversities and calamities appear in our life, we feel miserable, but later on, we are able to realise that these were for our own good and benefit.
I observed the kittens sleeping on the chair outside in the backyard. They looked very tender and weak. One was unable to access his food. I picked him up and helped him. Later, I put out a chair outside and was happy to see that the mother cat and the two kittens slept very peacefully the whole night. I observed how surrendered they were to God, not knowing what was going to happen to them the next day.
After bidding them goodbye after two days, I went to visit a sibling in whose house I had not had a meal for many years! It had so happened that the same day that I had stepped out to the lab, their child had received the results of an entrance examination in which she had not qualified. They seemed to be disappointed and in a gloom. I felt it would be good to visit them. I managed to have a good meal that my sibling had cooked. She shared a lot about her life, her anxieties and fears, and, apart from that, her many achievements at work. She felt immense concern for me and was happy that I had stepped out to get my health check-up done finally! A friend of mine had sent some spiritual books, which I gave to her to be given to her daughter. I felt the books would brighten her up and encourage her. I felt happy that I was able to reach out to the girl at the right time, when she required some moral support.
Returning, I was peaceful in heart and mind. I was amazed at how at the right time, I was in the right place and for the right purpose. How well God had designed the timing and the days!
A few days later, I learnt that one of the two kittens had gone back to God. Then, some days after that, the second kitten was adopted by a kind teashop owner as it could not cope with the loss of its sibling and had also been abandoned by its mother. The kitten was not eating and just sitting looking forlorn. At the right time, it got good company of other cats at the teashop. God’s timing is simply marvelous!
These experiences taught me that God’s timing is the best. If we deeply spend time quietly reflecting on our entire life so far, we will see that God has always put us in the right place at the right time and for the right purpose! Be it incidents, events, jobs, or situations, God plans it all for us, and it all happens for the best!
So, trust God’s timing! All things will fall in place for accurately!
Comments