Grandma Once Said

A little boy was wandering on the streets between two big buildings. He seemed to be happy though his clothes never washed since he ran away from home. Collar of his shirt is darkened, with sweat and dust. He and his friends, was simply enjoying street life.
Actually he belongs to a middle class family. He had enjoyed modern tech gadgets. He played video games, computer games and other well known gaming machines. His school is one of the most expensive schools in the town. All, he simply left behind.
It is sure that his parents are having big head ache because of him, since he left home without their knowledge.
If papa and mama come, all he has to do is go back home and to be scolded. He knows that his parents love him so dearly, that’s why whatever he asked they immediately bought and gave. Though for now he does not want to go home as he is having great time with the newly found friends. They are good, they share and play together. He don’t regret running away from home.
            But he misses his grandma, an elderly mother in her eighties. He remembers that his grandma was with him two years ago. He likes to go with her to the church in their parish. Not only this, he still wants to listen to the stories of grandma. They are from the bible, but for now everything is lifeless without grandma’s stories. They are no more since grand ma has gone to heaven.
            Only once he asked his mother to tell him a story at bed time, mama told him that she was busy and he is no longer a child anymore. Besides, mom rarely cooks food for her family, mostly meals are prepared by the helper or from nearby food house. For papa, there are days he did not see his papa, one evening he saw him and tried to go near to him and asked “papa, would you like to tell me a story?” Papa said that he has got important work to finish and probably he will tell him story later when he is free. Then papa asked mama to give him remote control and look at him and said “Son, papa is busy now, so watch cartoons.”
 He is already tired of TV or cartoons, these lifeless figures no longer entertain him. He wanted to share experiences he encountered at school with his papa and mama. He waited for them but it seemed they will not be free again. He cried aloud for grandma, “grandma, where are you?” No one heard his cries except his pillow.
Now, he has a lot of friends around and they share their experiences and play games together. When nights come they come close and sleep nearby shop or on the platform. Their days are full of joy dawn to the setting of the sun. No need to finish a lot of homework given by the teachers.  No need to see the angry face of the helper who treat him with different modes at the present and absence of papa and mama.
Oh I am hungry now and I see the light coming, it’s dawn already. He wakes up his friends telling they’ve got to go. If not the owners of the shops will come and yell at them. When he joins this friends they were five already and now with him they are six. One of them asked “did you run away from home and where do you live?” He is hesitant to answer but he told them where he came from. They asked him again, “do you want to go home? His answer is No. Why he has got no one who cares for him. And Grandma one said God is Love. He doesn’t want to stay where there is no love.
         

YES, “GOD IS LOVE. THE ONE WHO LIVES IN LOVE,
LIVES IN GOD AND GOD IN HIM.” (1John 4:16)