It’s a story, not sure who told this, but I felt really touching when I heard this story. So I thought I should share it with you all. Story starts like this, once a countess was traveling through a desert with her camels, donkeys, servants and securities who were escorting her. She was very unkind, wicked, disloyal and rich lady who won’t hesitate to do whatever thing to increase her wealth. She treated her servants like slaves and she had no kindness to anyone. So God decided to punish her for her sins. He send a sand storm, she and her crew was hit by that heavy sand storm. She lost her escorts and her servant men and became alone in desert. She was feeling terribly tired and thirst for water. But she find water nowhere in that vast desert. She walked through unsteady stand looking for help. After a long walk in that burning sun light she saw a well and a cactus far away. She rush to that well looking for water, she reached beside the well and looked inside it for water, she saw water contained by that well was really deep down and there was nothing to take water from that depth. She was helpless and she needed water at any cost, so she climbed down to the depth of that well and drank enough water she needed. Then she started to climb back up and in half way she felt she was dragged back down by someone, because of her drenched cloths. She struggled a lot and reached on top and stepped on sand. On that moment a dog came to her, he was tired and thirsty. He was trying to drink the water dripping from her drenched clothes. The lady tried to intimidate him to make him go away from her. But the dog was really needed water and he was trying to catch dripping drops from her clothes and he didn’t get any. After few minutes the lady felt mercy on him, she memorized how thirsty was she few moments ago. Then she understood how badly that dog needs water, and then she climbed deep down in the well, holding her shoe with her teeth, biting. She reached down and took water in her shoe and again climbed up back holding her shoe with her teeth. She gave water to dog and made him feel better.
Story ends here, but God says “because of her kindness to that dog, I have changed my decision to punish her and forgave all her sins she had done in her life.
Do not miss a chance to show kindness to other species. Who knows it may be our chance to receive God’s Mercy.
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