Transferring Joy

Years ago……
I was at the hospital, visiting a relative with my little toddler son.

As we were walking along the hallway, I heard an excruciating cry coming from a ward.

I briefly peeked into the room in amazement….only to find out that there were no nurses or anyone else responding to the patient’s plea.

It turned out to be a white haired woman who was sitting up on her bed crying loud.

“Oh, I’m in so much pain. Please… , someone help me…
.I no longer can bear the pain anymore. Let me die…let me die.

Slowly, I walked towards her bed.


The lady couldn’t see us because she was paying all her attentions towards her agony. Her eyes were shut tight as she cried out her pain.

Suddenly, I heard a voice calling inside me….”Take the child and place him on her lap.”

I was worried and fearful as I did not know her at all.


“What if she has some kind of contagious illness that could have passed to my child ?

“What if she is senile and may harm my lil boy”?

“What if she opens her eyes and gotten startled that she has heart attack?”

Lots of “what if” thoughts raced through my mind as we ventured closer and closer.

Without the lady noticing, I set my child beside her. Almost immediately, she stopped screaming and opened up her eyes.

She uttered “This is indeed a handsome baby boy”.


She seemed to have suddenly lost all her sense of pain.

Her face lit up as if she isn’t suffering from any pain.

Her painful expression was replaced with one joy.

And I knew I had witnessed a miracle.

She said over and again…. “This is indeed a handsome baby boy”.

Tears rolled down her cheeks as the pain gradually disappeared.

Care and loving thoughts are the medicine to pain.
What say you?