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Sunday, September 14, 2014

The Ironies of Life and Living - M

When M saw her mother suffering in her old age, she asked God to take away her suffering. “If you could give me just half of the sufferings my mother is going through, I will gladly bear it,” she bargained with God. M began getting aches in her bones and tingly feelings in her legs. She even had sleepless nights but accepted it in her stride. She was exasperated as even after her mother had passed away, the aches and pains still persisted. It was only a few years later when she realized that her biological mother (who was still living) had been having aching bones and tingly legs. Had she been sharing the pain of her biological mother rather than the pain of the mother who had taken care of her from young?

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