God surely takes care of me

God Ranganathar did make arrangements for me to visit Karamadai temple on an auspicious day. Yesterday at 7.30 am, Dr.Raju – promoter of our Home – called me to enquire if I would like to come to the Ranganathar temple. I told him I have already accepted an invitation to go to Anuvavi Subramania Swamy temple that morning.  He said he is planning to go only in the afternoon after lunch. I was so happy, I immediately accepted.  Dr. Raju said his daughter-in-law would be coming  and he could take four more people and asked me to pass on the message to others.

Yesterday was Adi amavasai (the new-moon day in the Tamil month of Adi).  Adi month is the beginning of festivities for the year.  Adi Amavasai was the first auspicious day this year. People go to temples. I did not plan any temple visit. But a Swamini (feminine of Swamiji) who lives across from our Home invited some of us to go to the Anuvavi temple that morning. She has arranged for a cab for the trip. Though she grew up in Coimbatore, she said,  she has never visited that temple.  I was happy to accompany her. This is my third trip to that temple. We had a good outing. I found it easy going up the 500 odd steps. We were home in time for lunch.

I have informed 3 other people about Doctor's offer to take us to the temple. They readily accepted. Doctor himself has asked couple of more people and we became six. We were all so very excited about going on an outing.  To accommodate all of us Doctor himself drove the ’Scorpio’. He told us that he read my blog on the ‘A temple visit’ and as he has never been to that temple he was motivated to go to the temple.

It is really amazing how well we could all relate to each other. We joked, teased and laughed all the way.  The temple was not overly crowded as some feared. We had a good darshan, strolled leisurely around the temple; I bought the athirasam (thought of my son Rajan) at the prasadam stall and shared with others.

On the way back as it was our tea time Doctor offered to treat us all for afternoon snack and tea/coffee and stopped at a good café. I asked for a plate of mixed vegetable pakoda which turned out to be the best. It was freshly made and the serve was generous. I shared it with all the others. It was so very satisfying.

The day was well spent. I had the added bonus satisfaction of having motivated and enabled one resident to make this trip. Isn’t this a service too Sendhil?

God does have his mysterious ways. He has more than ones shown me that he takes care of me. I am working on developing  faith in him.