Testimony from Louella
(04/07/2022
Praise God and thanks for supporting me in prayer! God’s timing is perfect!! My housebound 94 years old Mum’s original maid arrived at noon (after 11 days extension due to train cancellation) and God has given my substitute maid a permanent job just on time! I Had put a prayer request at Prarthanalaya for these 2 intentions and God has shown that nothing is impossible for Him. The substitute leaves tomorrow morning and joins the next place tomorrow evening! Even a day’s difference would have inconvenienced someone or the other, but God took care of everyone perfectly!!
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TESTIMONY OF GODS PROTECTION
(3/04/2022)
I had travelled to North all alone and on my way to the station a group of people blocked the road and I was not allowed to proceed. I requested the people to give me the way as I had to board the train. The situation seemed very dangerous yet I trusted in the Lord and each place wherever the people had gathered and blocked the road were moved aside and gave way for the Auto to proceed and I managed by Gods grace to board the train on time and reached back home safely.
I am thankful to Jesus who changed the minds of those people who blocked the road and let me travel safely to my destination.
All thanks and glory to Jesus and for all those who prayed for my safe journey.
PDDM sister.
TESTIMONY OF A RECOVERED COVID PATIENT
(28 June, 2020)
Today is exactly 2 weeks since my COVID test result was declared positive……something I never never expected. It could happen to others but not to me!
But it is a miracle I am home today still self quarantined for 7 days more but slowly gaining my strength again….I feel just so humbled to be a COVID survivor not a battered victim of the vicious virus
Today I just feel so surrounded by LOVE after 2 weeks of total isolation except for medical personnel (dressed in their PPEs.looking like weird aliens with only their small beady eyes showing)who tirelessly and dedicatedly administered to patients day and night .
.I just feel enveloped by LOVE of God….LOVE of family…LOVE of friends and well-wishers and Prayer Group members and more than all .. embraced by the LOVE of creation and the cosmos. Life is now defined for me as life before COVID and life after COVID.
Before everything was a given …taken for granted….an entitlement…….Today everything is a grace …a blessing…a gift..freely given…to be looked at with wonder and newness…to be relished and savoured.I consider that a distinctive favour was bestowed on me to have been chosen to test COVID positive…..and now having life restored to me .The response of the joy of just BEING enveloped by LOVE that surrounds me ….is my response to life today.
When the test result was declared I was on a daze ..I just went along like a sheep to the slaughter….accepting remotely that my age and co-morbidities would allow the virus to take a grip on me. Accepting God’s will in my life… and cooperating fully with the medical protocols and regimen of meds…without fighting back with ‘will’ and ‘determination’… all played it’s part in my healing and recovery.The sacrifice of creature comforts and insipid food choices and weakened in body, mind and spirit Spirit…. it was the “cracked” Charisimatic response of “Praise and thank you Lord” in all situations that helped me cling to my LIFELINE. Slowly but surely the tide turned in my favour as I looked forward to the dawn of each new day.
Too faint to want to eat…too feeble to want to pray…too weak to want to exercise the mind……
strangely it was not begging pleading and anxious entreating
prayers for mercy but just
“the nurturing love of the Father…..the saving and redeeming love of the Son…
and the encompassing love of the Holy Spirit.”…. with Mother Mary by my side was my peaceful vision during my darkest moments. “Be still and know that I am your God.”
Sunita my eldest daughter was the rock in keeping our quarantined home going and together with Alisha kept Ivan well and in good spirits.Yet blissfully unknown to me Sunita herself was struck with COVID like symptoms when I was in the hospital. It was Divine Providence that she tested negative and was spared the need for hospitalization..and recovered at home.What a difficult time it would have been for Alisha to carry on singlehanded alone with Ivan.”God be praised”
There are too many to single out and thank….but to each of you my beloved family friends prayer group members and well-wishers…THANK YOU…..The Lord used each of you to carry me through with your love care,concern ,prayers and messages. What I looked forward to each day was the Cardinals Mass, the daily call to Ivan to hear his soothing gentle and encouraging voice and Sonia’s daily call with darling Sashas chatter in the background. Scriptural images of Jesus in my boat and being held by my Shepherd and phrases from the liturgy and devotions uplifted me in my moments of loneliness.
Yes for me….my physical healing and recovery from COVID have been closely intertwined with my spiritual experiences.Today as I heal and recover I enjoy God’s peace and love and joy in a very deep and intangible way as my heart overflows with gratitude for the wonders that Lord has worked in my life.
