I belong to God!!

Once, in a village, there was a grandmother, who every morning went out into the forest and gathered wood for her fire, and herbs to eat. One day, as she was returning from the forest, loaded with wood on her shoulder and grass on her apron, on the way she met Charontas.

"Hello and welcome, Charontas," Grandma says, unperturbed, "where are you going?"

"I'm coming for you", Charontas replies. "Come on, get ready for me to pick you up."

"Let me go home first, unload and get ready for the trip. But, to have a good question, like how do you want me to get ready?"

"As you wish," Charontas replies.

Then the grandmother goes home, lights the fireplace and puts the greens to boil. Then, she began to leaven bread and made bagels for forgiveness. Then she set a table and waited for the bread and greens to be baked.

Then Charontas appears again and asks her:

"Hey, are you ready, auntie?"

"I am waiting for the greens to boil, bake the bread and eat. Don't you want to sit down and have a bite to eat with me?"

"But... Don't you have a grudge against me, auntie, that I will take your soul?"

"No, why should I hold a grudge against you? Is my soul yours? It is the Lord's!!"!!

"And your body, where will you leave it in the grave?" asks Charontas

"Well, that's my business!" the grandmother replies. "I will hand it over to God and He will keep it for me. Have you seen where we put a cross on the graves?"

Just in time, the greens were boiled, she smelled the bread in the oven and the grandmother put down the food and put on the table two plates of greens and several slices of bread and sat happy to eat!

Charontas, however, was sad and did not want to eat...

"I don't like taking people who don't cry," he tells the grandmother.

"Can you tell me why?" asks the grandmother in wonder.

She adds: "What does it matter to you, whether they cry or not?"

"When people cry and mourn, before I take them, they are mine and I take them to hell. But when they are quiet, prayerful and meek, God takes them and takes them straight to Paradise."

"That's why you have a bad name and they're afraid of you," the grandmother tells him. "Eat a little to warm your soul, make your Cross, lest you stop punishing the world"!

Then Charontas could not stand the words of the wise and pious grandmother, he ran away from his evil, so he threw himself up and left, saying:

"I have lost you anyway. What am I sitting and loitering with you..."

The grandmother, then, carefree, continued her meal, praising God!!