O' Jesus, Please Help me - My Daughter's Cry
“To the Lord I cry aloud and He answers from His Holy Hill – Ps 3:4 (NIV)”
My daughter - Gayathri was very much attached to her elder brother and she loved him. She could not take the fate or karma theory for the sickness and condition of her brother and had totally lost all her faith on all the Hindu gods and she was not praying to any god at all. She had almost become an atheist. When I was away in USA, she used to take my wife in a two wheeler to whichever temple she wanted to go but never used to go inside the temple. She would wait in the vehicle outside the temple till her mother returned from the temple. To that extent, she had lost faith and developed an aversion towards all the gods. Even after our return to India and after hearing my testimony of how Lord Jesus had saved Karthi’s life, she was not ready to receive Jesus. She used to say that let Jesus heal her brother completely first and make him as he was earlier, then she would accept Jesus as her Lord. I did not compel her. I just kept on praying for her redemption. Her 21st birth day fell on 30th July 2001. On that day since morning she was having a feeling of premonition that something serious like an accident was going to happen that day. She just brushed aside that feeling and totally forgot about it. She normally wore only chudidhars and pyjamas. That day evening she wore a sari and went to Tambaram by a two wheeler to attend her computer class. While she was driving back after the class in Grand Trunk Road near Kadaperi check post at around 7 PM, one end of her sari was caught up in the rear wheel of her vehicle. Somehow she had applied the break and she was caught up in upright position not able to either drive further or to get down from the vehicle. Grand Trunk Road is a busy road and there used to be heavy traffic at all times
S. THAYAPPAN 57 of the day and in the evening the traffic used to be at peak. She could have been crushed to death by the speeding heavy vehicles. Many fatal accidents had happened on the GST roads. On a sudden impulse even without her knowledge, she had cried out “Oh Jesus, please help me”. That’s all she could remember. Further she did not know as to how her sari was freed from the rear wheel or how she got down from the vehicle or who brought her to the platform. But she was standing with the vehicle near the platform completely shivering. It could have been a major, serious or fatal accident. As King David had cried to the Lord in Ps 103:13 SHE HAD CRIED TO THE LORD IN HER TROUBLE AND THE LORD SAVED HER FROM HER DISTRESS. Although this incident broke her atheist attitude and tilted her slightly towards Jesus, she did not accept Him fully and was still wavering in mind.