We all understand how much importance we give to images of God. Having a photo of God with us always gives us lot of confidence. When we are feeling down looking at the image of God lifts our spirits up. The following are two experiences I had where I found God came to our house in form of image. Many times when we are given images of God to us unexpectedly we feel blessed.

 

God comes with us to America

 

It was a few weeks before coming to America that I visited my native place Rajahmundry. We spent around 5 days there with my parents before we started our journey to US. During this period we went to a place in Rajahmundry where we wanted to get a photo of Lord Ganesha which we wanted to bring it with us to America. The shop does lamination of photos and sells them. We looked around the shop and one particular photo of Lord Hanuman attracted me and my wife. She suggested that we will buy that also. I was thinking we don't know exactly how much luggage we have and I didn't want to bring too many things as it will be a problem. Somehow I resisted the initial impulse to buy that image also. We came out from the shop after we bought the photo we wanted and went back home. But somehow I was being attracted to that photo of Lord Hanuman. I could not resist this anymore. It was as if HE was calling me. Finally I went alone to the same shop again and bought photo of Lord Hanuman. Now this particular photo is in my living room and I am glad that I bought that. We feel HE is watching us all the time and everytime we come in or go out we bow to him. As I write this experience, I have the photo just behind me watching me writing this. Images make the presence felt strongly and I felt on this occasion HE accompanied us to America in the photo.

 

Receiving small photo of Lord Hanuman

 

Another similar instance happened which prompted to write these two experiences. I went to shop to buy Indian Groceries. During every day prayer we use the oil with cotton wicks to put the light, as a normal custom. I wanted to buy more cotton wicks. As I searched, I didn't find the regular cotton wicks I buy everytime. Instead I found different kind of cotton wicks. Out of the packets available one of the cotton wicks packet had image of Lord Hanuman. I first hesitated and then bought the packet. What made me feel blessed on that day was I was feeling down and it was the only item with Lord's photo. Again I felt happy that God wanted to show his Grace and this small photo I received is placed again among the images in my pooja idols. And everytime I see this photo I feel blessed.

 

Many other people may experience similar experiences and I felt blessed on both these occasions and I am glad for the same.