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A Few Days With My God and My Angel
A Few Days With My God and My Angel
A Few Days With My God and My Angel
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Life is beautiful when we have a destiny, hope and faith towards the Almighty God. Each one of us would have faced critical crises, unacceptable situations, heartbreaking incidents or total failures in life. One might find it extremely difficult to overcome such hurdles. This is my humble effort to share an incident in my life where I came face to face with God, feeling the warmth of His divine love and providence. I wish my brothers and sisters could get the faith to overcome their own challenges in life through this book.

"A Few Days With My God and My Angel" is a brief, though straight from the heart, description of the fifty six days which we spent in the hospital with our nineteen months old son Steve, thus changing our very perspective of life but left our faith unshaken. Here I am trying to explain my understanding on the depth of personal relation which God maintains with each one of us. The incidents written in this book may be painful, but my intention is not to make the reader feel the pathos or to make one look back at us in pity, instead one should be able to look past the mortal pain and sufferings to understand the intricate and mysterious ways in which God cares. I only want to share the love and support I felt from my God and I want to share how my prayers strengthened my faith. The pages that follow are extracts from my life and will reveal to you how I came to know the love and care of my God...

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Release dateFeb 9, 2014
ISBN9781311169969
A Few Days With My God and My Angel
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Santhosh Thomas

Santhosh K. Thomas is an IT professional from India, born in the year 1975.He graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Electronic and communication) and he is currently working as a project manager for a multinational company in Bangalore, India.He is married to Bini. Santhosh spends free time playing piano or learning new musical instruments. He loves travelling.“A Few Days With My God and My Angel” is his debut work.

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    A Few Days With My God and My Angel - Santhosh Thomas

    A Few Days With My God and My Angel

    Santhosh K. Thomas

    Published by Santhosh K. Thomas at Smashwords

    Copyright 2014 Santhosh K. Thomas

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    Dedicated To All Doctors And Medical Staff Who Live Their Lives To Save Lives.

    Contents

    Foreword

    Acknowledgement

    Introduction

    Chapter 1: The Beginning

    Chapter 2: The Scary PICU

    Chapter 3: Series of Miracles

    Chapter 4: Tough Days

    Chapter 5: Strange Tolerance

    Chapter 6: The Prayers We prayed

    Chapter 7: How I Strengthen My Faith

    A Note by My Cousin

    Back Cover

    Foreword

    The book A Few Days with My God and My Angel by Santhosh Thomas is his personal reflection on the question of human suffering. Santhosh and his wife Bini went through a lot of suffering when they lost their nineteen months old beloved son Steve (Thomachen). But because of their faith in God, they not only faced death and suffering in a profound spiritual level, but also set an example to many who go through similar life situations. In an inspiring way Santhosh has narrated in this book how he handled those fifty–six days of his son’s hospitalization until his death.

    Suffering in one form or another accompanies each of us every day. As a Shepherd, I come across with the sufferings of my people due to death and illness on a daily basis. I offer words of comfort through my presence and prayers invoking God’s blessings upon them. Some of us are unable to handle it when suffering becomes a personal reality. But Santhosh, in the light of his faith, handled those fifty– six days of his little son’s hospitalization heroically and proved that he is a genuine disciple of Christ. His son’s suffering and death has shaken his life but not his faith. In fact, at this moment, his faith has come to aid his shaken life. Reading the Word of God, praying before the Blessed Sacrament, reciting the Rosary, participating in the Holy Qurbana and his family’s daily prayers gave him the spiritual strength and a deeper understanding of the meaning of the mystery of suffering.

    Because of his faith life he is able to pray with the Psalmist: I will not die but live, and will proclaim what the Lord has done[Psalms 118:17]. He sees the larger picture where everything is in God’s hands. Many of us are unable or afraid to see it hence lose hope in life and also in God. Santhosh shows a St. Paul like attitude here who said:I consider that the sufferings of this present time are as nothing compared with the glory to be revealed for us. (Rom. 8:18)

    His son, Steve is also an example for us. Steve, even though he was only nineteen months old, became an instrument in God’s hand to make many people to come to a life of prayer. As Santhosh says in his book: God gave him a great power to suffer all this pain without tears or complaints. The silent suffering of an innocent child proved to be of great value for all of us who come to know about him.

    The faith and confidence of Santhosh and his family in the providential care of the Lord, is a great challenge and a shining example for others who may go through similar situations of suffering. Blessed Pope John Paul II who would be canonized a saint soon, has given us some beautiful reflections on the meaning of suffering. He has gone through a lot of suffering in his life as a child and even with Parkinson’s in his old age. But in all those sufferings he saw the face of God who suffered with him. He says: In order to perceive the true answer to the ‘why’ of suffering, we must look to the revelation of divine love, the ultimate source of the meaning of everything that exists. Love is also the richest source of the meaning of suffering, which always remains a mystery: We are conscious of the insufficiency and inadequacy of our explanations. Christ causes us to enter into the mystery and to discover the ‘why’ of suffering, as far as we are capable of grasping the sublimity of divine love. In order to discover the profound meaning of suffering …we must above all accept the light of revelation … Love is also the fullest source of the answer to the question of the meaning of suffering. This answer has given by God to man in the cross of Jesus Christ (On the Christian Meaning of Human Suffering SalvificiDoloris, no. 13).

    Knowing the family of Santhosh and Bini personally, I am really happy to say that this family has enriched the spiritual life of the Malankara Syrian Catholic Church through their Emmanuel experience even at the loss of their beloved son Steve. Santhosh and Bini are not only giving an example but also posing a challenge – a challenge to be faithful to God and in his providential care even when there is so much suffering. According to St. Padre Pio:Many suffer, but few know how to suffer well. Suffering is a gift from God; blessed is he who knows how to profit by it.

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