Faith and Hope and Charity

To gaze upon the face of God ... Doctor Krishna likes to reminisce over his mother's favourite saying. Or, 'Behold, the face of God', she would say. She always spoke these words when seeing compassion, kindness or charity between people, whatever the age, whatever the situation, whatever the inclination. God, He who is Love, is everywhere, in all things, she told all her children ... and anyone else who would listen. Though we are children babbling nonsense, we know Him when we are tender, gentle, warm, patient with another. We are Him even when we see through the dull glass of our own inflated Self to reach out to another in need, when we are more than just sentiment.

Indeed, it was his mother who lead him to medicine, a long and winding road after many a troubled year. And now, caring daily for others, the good doctor considers that he has never been more complete, never has known a fuller sense of being. Expansive, fundamental, a clear blue sky extending to to horizon in all directions, this man has never felt such peace of mind and absolute certainty in the rightness of choosing Love to guide ones hand.

And though he sees much boasting and greed, impatience and unkindness, jealousy, pompousness, rudeness and greed, and anger and deceit, Doctor Krishna knows without a doubt that the truth of unconditional love abides in all beings, without exception. Turning his face towards the sun, with closed eyes and a gentle smile, he whispers a silent prayer to his long dead mother, thanking her for her faith and hope and charity, but most of all for her love.