Ship wrecked stranded devotee and god

Ship wrecked stranded devotee  and god

By

P.R.Ramachander

(Based on a story in Tamil posted by my facebook friend  Sri Guru Moorthi .Thanks to him)

One  great devotee  of god  was once ship wrecked,

And got stranded in an island   devoid  of any human  beings,

And he prayed God   to some how help him ,

And take him back to his loving family at home.

Nothing seemed to happen and he started  collecting,

AS many things as possible that were brought to the island,

By ocean waves   and slowly  and surely  , he built a hut,

And started living in it with roots and fruits as his food.

But daily   he used  to worship god  , sing prayers ,

And request Him to somehow   save  him from the island,

But one day after  food hunting  when he returned back,

He was shocked  to see his hut burning giving out huge  smokes.

He  started  abusing and shouting    at the God  , who did this,

Inspite of his sincere  devotion  and   soulful prayers that he sung,

And suddenly he saw a ship coming towards   the island,

To save him and he  was not able to understand how they found him out.

They told him they say the fire and smoke  in the island,

And suspected a human being in distress and came to save him,

And the devotee started  crying at the mercy of God  who set fire to his hut,

Just to save him and felt ashamed that  he abused   to that  God.

Even in our ordinary life   , we face  similar situations,

When  the God does not  answer our prayers but brings more troubles,

WE forget that the great God knows   everything  in this world,

And knows  the perfect  method  to answer all our prayers