My Road to Christ ~ Dr. Ezekiel’s testimony
August 12, 2003 by Melody Laila
Filed under People of God, Testimonies
I was born and brought up in a Hindu backward class community and named Sanjay. My father was a highly educated, esteemed and a dedicated person towards social upliftment in vast contrast to most politicians. He expired in 1981 after struggling with cancer for a few years leaving behind my mother and three children.
My mother though illiterate was very hardworking, determined and loving, going out of her way to help others and unable to say no to anyone when it came to helping. Her desire to see us educated and excel in the society gave her a reason to live. She worked hard and brought us up giving us the best in her capacity. As the eldest amongst her siblings, she also shouldered the responsibility of educating, getting her younger brothers and sisters married and settling them with jobs. All the family pressures, ups and downs, fears and insecurities were borne by her alone. As a young girl, she grew up in one of the remote villages of Osmanabad district in Maharashtra (India) in a thatched house and in her teenage years, managed to build a firm stone walled house in the town and then in the later years, during my medical education bought a flat in Pune, a city of educational institutions, for our ease.
