This happened last year. My husband was transferred to China, a new place for me. I have travelled all through after my marriage and put up with many changes.But, this time i did not want to start all over again from the language. I prayed to Baba to save us from this transfer. We were blessed with a trip to shirdi, and i read sai sat charita, but nothing seemed to happen in the beginning.
This was a time to learn patience, i thought, though i turned out to be a lousy learner!
But our Saima, knows us better. He showed his mercy on us by bringing in another job offer in our current location itself. But the offer letter was delayed a lot. Meanwhile until the letter came we could not take chances and so we had to go over to china so that my husband to take over charge. We had to put our son in a school there and we did not know what to do. I prayed sai to give us faith and promised to say ' sai sai sai, 100,008 times. So, i started telling this immediately. We were flying out to china that day, and i asked baba something atrocious. I asked him to give me a dharshan in china! I said i wont count the pictures i have in the purse or the idols i have in luggage. I want to see a baba picture in shanghai somewhere else! I told this to my husband and he concluded that i have gone crazy beyond repair!
However, we reached our new apartment in shanghai and left our luggage and decided to go out for dinner. My son, like all 8 year olds is a big fan of pizza hut, so we thought of going to pizza hut. Just as we reached there, there was an indian restaurant near by and my son suddenly insisted that we go to the indian restaurant. So, we went there. Guess what I should see there.... Yes, it is my sweet heart sai. Right there in a big photo. I remained shocked and choked with grace. To top it all, my husband says, that he has visited this same resaturant many times during his previous short visits and he has never once seen this picture. No one could simply miss that big picture.
Needless to say, the following thursday the offer letter came through and all our troubles were over. We came back to our old place.
Oh sai, please keep our faith ever strong, though we tend to doubt again and again. Please bless us with faith and patience.
saisaisai
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