Wednesday, April 13, 2011

A phone call

I am a simple teacher. I live at Darbhanga. I have neither money nor fame. No one was ever afraid of me. Now when I am 62 years old, I got a phone call from a St. Xavier's Alumnus who also probably worked in a parish and opted to settle in a village decades ago. "Have you ever heard this voice?" I replied in affirmative. He spoke "We hear that you will soon be retiring",the man spoke further. "Would you come and settle here? We feel that we'd be a better community and better neighbors for having a man whose life is so genuine living among us"

I was touched.
Imagine changing a community just by being oneself.

But that is power.

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