He pointed to the method a mother sometimes adopts to correct her child when it does something wrong. So, the mother lets the child go ahead. In the same way, the Lord lets us suffer sometimes, for then we realise that we have strayed from the correct path. The mother who lets her child lick a finger dipped in mud and allows it to be sick for a while, suffers more than the child, for which mother can bear to see her child suffer? In His love for us, the Lord is like a mother.

Source: The Hindu August 15, 2023 11:18 UTC