Biological Father vs Heavenly Father
SINGAPORE (AFP) - – A Singaporean man has gone on trial charged with murdering his 23-month-old daughter in a fit of rage after he caught her playing with his cigarettes, court officials said Tuesday.
Sallehan Allaudin, 26, is accused of fatally beating his daughter Nikie in January ahead of her second birthday, causing her to die of a ruptured vein. If convicted, he could face death by hanging.
The High Court was told Monday that Sallehan, who had just returned home with his wife with a present for Nikie, went berserk after seeing the toddler had torn up and scattered his cigarettes, the Straits Times reported Tuesday.
Sallehan has pleaded not guilty to the charge.
His wife, Rozanah Mohamed Yusoff, 24, used a mannequin to show the court how Sallehan allegedly kicked and stomped on their daughter in the kitchen, the newspaper said.
The couple, who have two younger daughters, called for an ambulance when Nikie started bleeding from the nose, but she died of her injuries, according to the report.
"I did not go into the kitchen to stop my husband as I thought that was the way he wanted to discipline Nikie," the wife was quoted as saying by the newspaper. (source: yahoo news).
What’s our reaction when we read such things? That the biological father has got something wrong? How come he killed his own daughter only for such a minor matter, his cigarettes. I don’t know what’s behind his act. Maybe he’s under such a huge stress that he can’t handle. Maybe, he’s frustrated, maybe he’s depressed…A lot of maybes on our mind ,right? And if let say the kid is alive, will she have a good impression on her own father? I don’t think so…
That’s why we need to change our attitude when we talk about our heavenly Father, our God. It’s because our Father in heaven is completely different with whatever image that we carried until now in our mind about our biological father. He is different because of His love, unconditional love. He’s different because simply: He’s God.
His generosity is amazing. Even the birds of the air, He feeds them. And we’re much more valuable than them. He will protect us and fulfill our needs according to His Plans and His Ways.
Whatever image that we have on our own biological father, we pray it to the Lord, so that we won’t have a distracted image of Him. Because our Heavenly Father is totally different. God is love. He is full of love. (-fon-)
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
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