Truth triumphs

When my companion told me that the lady who has been cooking for us, has developed a big boil near the calf muscle of one of her legs, I was not surprised. Maybe at the depth of my heart, I was smiling, and there are more reasons for me, not to feel sad for this tribal lady, who is here employed for about four years. I was also not surprised that she had a boil, which may need to be operated, from my companion, who has been her patron and friend, supporting and helping her in all ways possible. One of the main reasons for my smile was that I knew that God is beginning to give reward for her doings here in our house. I had found her cheating and robbing our kitchen things on several occasions, and she would not change her ways because her patron would not ever ask her to stop such cheating.

I had tried to bring the matter to the attention of the people concerned, including my companion, and proposed to change things in such a way that we do not allow her to have complete control over buying and handling things. But my proposals fell on deaf ears. I have felt terrible anguish at being taken for a ride by this lady; she buys all her household things on our money, when marketing is done for us; and my companion does not even have a good look at the kind of bills (all of them written in a white paper, in round figures) she would give him. She has been minting money at our expense, and I would only pray that God gives her something in return for her robbing us. I am aware that the problem is more to do with us, rather than her. We had given her scope and opportunities to loot us.

She should feel ashamed to call herself a Christian, for stealing things from a religious house, just because my companion believes in “trust”. On several days I had silently prayed to the Lord that my community members may wake up and realize what this one lady is doing to us; we try to save money as part of our vow of poverty, but it does not matter to her at all; she would go for the most expensive things, and I would not be surprised that the shampoo she uses (there are several brands in the room she occupies in front of mine) are bought on our money. I believe that God sees all our actions, and he waits for us to return from our wrong-doings. That is why I was not sad when my companion said that she had to be operated for the boil.

But since she has to take responsibility for her cheating and looting us, I do not feel even a grain of grief, if a misfortune were to befall her. It is not that I am being sadistic, drawing pleasure in her pain; it is not that, but she should realize she cannot go on making us pay for all her personal and family things, starting from cooked food carried away to raw vegetables, oil and other spices looted away. This has to stop and I believe it is the Lord who has to do something to bring in this transformation in her. She has to stop bringing to our house a large sized shoulder-bag good enough to carry about ten kilos of things; and many a times I had seen this bag bulging out with things.

We know God as a just God, who may not reward the just immediately, and punish the guilty soon; he explores other ways of getting this done. But the wicked may think that they can go on with their wickedness endlessly, and there may come a time, when they may find themselves caught in the pit they had dug for others. I would very much like to have a different person to cook food for us, and manage our house; a person who would consider our house as his/her own house, and care for each one of us. But unfortunately I am not in a position to voice my opinion, because there is none who would listen to me!