(2) MEDIUM OF GOD

I proved myself wrong by defeating the thought I perceived that language can be a big barrier to communicate if not understood at both end.We shifted to a new house three months back and I had to appoint a new maid servant.I came across many women who came to know about my search and represented themselves the best suitable for the job,but somehow i could not zeroupon any of them until one day this lady who could neither speak nor understand my language came to me for the same purpose accompanied by her relative who acted as an interprator.Though I was not ready to accept their proposal,reason being mutual at both ends..mine and hers..language problem,but when i looked into her begging eyes(the one who wanted the job) alongwith her body language going parallel to her words,i felt i could understand how badly she needed some earnings and thus I agreed.She started coming to do the house chores from the very first day of the following month which was hardly a week away.Initially I faced hell lot of problems to explain the task to be done to her and as well happened with her to understand the same,but we continued our association and gradually we both got adapted to our ability of understanding each other's alien language with the help of our gestures and signs.This went on for almost a month and then one day she told me in her own peculiar way to explain with waving hands in different direction sas if she was trying to draw the scenario for me..that she got one more house to do the job and she might have to come to my place little late every day.I okayed it thinking it was good for her to earn more money and serve her family.Only a few days passed with the said schedule and she started making it late and more late day by day.At last when I lost my patience over adjusting things,I asked her to do her job till the month end and then leave for better as she used to get more wages in the other house and I didnt wanted her to leave that just to accomodate my requirement.She pleaded me not to take such a decision and assured me her punctuality from the next day.Well..she did as she said but that too for only few days as it was practically not possible to be at two places at the same time especially when none of the employers(the other lady and myself) were ready to compromise on the timings.So I had to repeat myself about my decision to her.She kept mum for a moment and then turned her face towards me,eyes filled with tears,hands folded,throat seemed to be choaked with some plight,she began to speak in her own language(again greek to me) with her usual hands drawing something in the space between us ,eyes supporting her words and some other medium which was absolutely not seen seemed to conversate every bit she said to me in such a lucid form that I could understand every word of hers.When she had done telling me everything starting from her jobless husband harassing her,debtors making her life miserable,and her two years old daughter whom she hardly fed regularly and who often fell victim to every small diseases,she broke down and started weeping,and fell into my feet begging for her job,pleading me not to appoint someone else.I could not help but cry myself with her beacause this was the first time when i could understand every word she said though till today I dont understand her language.Then how could I?As i said earlier ,there was some invisible unsaid medium which made that possible, medium of humanity,of love,of concern and ofcourse medium of God.

Her relative who had helped her get the job here came to me yesterday and was telling me how thankful my maid was towards me for my behaviour with her,my kindness,my understanding and sympathy towards her.And then she left giving blessings to my family herself and on my maid's behalf.My heart was filled with gratitude,though i thought i did not do something so great to be called kind and of same sort,but then i realised that it might be a small thing for me to compromise with my timings and allow her to continue working ..but for her it was like a boon which kept her earnings alive to continue serving her family better...She still works for me and it seems i feel neither the need to learn her language from the book i bought for the purpose nor do i want her to understand every word i speak to her,anymore.Things seems to have started falling in place without much of effort to put in as was required earlier.

I thank thee God for not letting me forget the lessons of humanity and making me smarter to learn HIS ways of understanding others.