For a month,
in Aug 2019, I was deployed from my office to Odisha for Fani cyclone response.
For the entire month, God was gracious to me and my family and all things were
set fine; without a problem. My wife had to take care of the house and the kids;
she did a perfect job taking up all the responsibilities alone and making up to
be a perfect homemaker. I returned from my deployment on 30th Aug 2019. On 1st
Sept 2019 we attended church as usual and it was a Lord Supper Sunday plus our
church GCRC Noida was celebrating Youth Sunday. All the enthusiastic Youths
from our Youth group i.e. Lover's of Christ were leading worship on that day.
There were songs, skit, word of the God; all shared by Youths. All was fine
and the House of the Lord was filled in His presence and we were enjoying all
of it. I saw my son Jason moving around in the Church and suddenly picking up a
bead from the ground to play with it. At first, I thought to take it away from
him as there were fair enough chances for him to put it either in his nose, ear
or mouth; but I chose to ignore the voice of the Holy Spirit and kept my
attention to the celebrations.
All of a
sudden my wife shared with me that my son had put the bead in his nose and is
now not able to take it out. She also had made efforts to take it out but had
failed miserably. I immediately took him out and tried to check myself. Even I
could not find it and tried to cross-check with my son if he had really put it
in or is he bluffing. My son was constant in his statement that he had put it
and is unable to take it out. He even asked us if he is gonna die. This
panicked us a bit more but I kept my calm and consoled him that nothing is
going to happen. We tried to divert his attention. Immediately without delay, we
rushed to a Children Super specialty hospital nearby wherein the doctor in
charge shared that all the doctors are on leave as it was a Sunday, the OPD was
closed and that the problem can be solved only the next day. He, however,
suggested us to see an ENT specialist. As we did not know a specialist, I
googled the nearest one and with the help of google directions, was able to
reach there in another 15 mins. The ENT specialist Dr. S.P. Jain was an
experienced doctor around his 50's. He immediately put a torch and saw inside
the nose of my son. He confirmed the bead to be there and said 'not to worry, I
will take it out immediately'. He, however, confirmed the charge to be INR 2500
which I considered being nothing in compared to the situation we were in. I
immediately agreed and said please go ahead. Only by His grace, the bead was out
in less than a minute. We all took a long breath. God saved him miraculously
and within 1 hr of the incident, the bead was out. Had it been delayed a bit,
the bead would have gone to the windpipe and a big mishap would have happened.
All praises to the Almighty because due to him, my son was marked safe.
