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  • Orange lily flower with six petals and stamens in warm light

    A Psalm for April

    10th Apr 2026 by

    FMF Writers : Remnant 🌿 I’ve searched castles & dreams,searched remnant rivers paved withgreat ideas, searched lilies in streams that could not stop drought;when I saw You -You turned my eyes to little springs You, looking in my want, You shredding evil- it fell like lightning.Ah Lord God -Your Waters breathe- gentle pastures green, They… Read more

  • Woman writing in journal on space station with view of Earth, Saturn, and moon

    Blogs: an Anne-Frank type of Diary?

    9th Apr 2026 by

    go outdoors,kiss the feet of God in forest floor. in the early scorched sun, watch miraclesof a new normal 🌿 my great exercise would be to Journal everything: thought, seen, said, not said out loud. Thinking on storing these moments in a Diary they may find someday who knows. Isn’t WordPress a Diary all by… Read more

  • A weathered wooden door framed by pink roses with golden light streaming from inside.

    “Let me hear your voice ..” He said

    5th Apr 2026 by

    40/40 Would you decline the greatest Love?Is hatred easier to relate to? FMF Writers Another Easter begins. We will wake early, get bouquet of lilies, wear soft white shirts and silks. Homes will bake, dine, set out a feast. Malls will deck out in Easter bunnies, there will be dances and dates. Ramps will catwalk,… Read more

  • Three Challenges that unlock Freedom from everyday Hell.

    2nd Apr 2026 by

    37/40 Gethsemane provokes – what are your thoughts today. We are a magnificent earth…powered, and powerless. We are magnificent in all our variation. We celebrate power, usefulness, longevity. We grow deserts. Devotees of peacelessness. I see how we can be a shadow of Everything, and yet so loved by God Whom I can easily disown,… Read more

  • Hold Hands With Stillness

    1st Apr 2026 by

    36/40 Lent Passion Week & Beyond Heal From my FlipBook, FREE READ. I’d love for you to check this one out. 🌿 “Stay awhile…”His words have hands and feet, they move in the distance between us…in His Hand is a tattered collar of blue frock. I was 4 years old… I’ve searched galaxies in streetsdug… Read more

  • Impasto oil painting of an open book, oil lamp, and wildflowers on a rustic table.

    Why I read the Bible everyday

    31st Mar 2026 by

    35/40Lent For FMF WRITERS : if Words have hands and feet, bridging distances, each syllable filling with Light…that’s Your Word my God. Narrating accounts of Your Life and mine, ours all intertwined.It is hard to understand, Your entire plan from now to Eternity , but this I know, the Bible moves me to Love the… Read more

  • Emboss word Jesus across entire image

    “Jesus”

    29th Mar 2026 by

    #34/40Lent you use the name to swearI wear Him as a crown, The thorns are yours to exchange for eternal peace, even herethe Palm symbolizes rejoicing-We are owned, loved, by GraceThe red is His blood liberating us from hellWhy be so polite with satanWhy entertain evil Its that hard being loved as we should By… Read more

  • Wooden desk with laptop and steaming mug, surrounded by plants and a sleeping cat.

    Syllables of Starlight

    29th Mar 2026 by

    33/40Lent wake early my soulsit with the King of kingsLean on the window will of heaven-Be with the Morning Star.Enough darknessEnough.Just go be His.Just go be His.Its what He was here for.Told you they wouldn’t like it.He told you they’d hate you for it.He told you. Never mind. Now just be His Starlight His starlight.

  • A white lily blooming inside a sphere of sharp black thorns against a purple sky.

    Faith in Today’s World

    28th Mar 2026 by

    32/40Lent 🌿 More now than ever before, I ask what it must’ve been like for Jesus, early 30s, in a world full of religious rough necks; how did He get to shine, even from that Cross… today our cultures are ripe with change. Faith is a thing you mayn’t want to mess with. And He… Read more

  • A white lamb sitting next to a crown of thorns in a mountain landscape.

    God my Healer

    28th Mar 2026 by

    31/40Lent Back from another trip to insanely beautiful hillls, a 14 hour drive, 27ish hair pinbends, from 7100 ft – every breath a prayer. Here we are, strengthened in a core that has been physically falling apart for me. Posted my pic just to remind myself we can do this, with Him. God never promised… Read more

  • Luminous translucent hands weave a golden tapestry of trees and leaves on a wooden loom.

    Gardens in His sky

    27th Mar 2026 by

    29/40Lent Watch your heart rest listen to it listen -to the wisdom of healing – of listening, waiting, watching -watching the Fingers of God weave you again.

  • Three wooden crosses stand on a rocky hill silhouetted against a warm sunset.

    The Hills are alive

    23rd Mar 2026 by

    28/40 healing tiptoes on new wingsmaybe it hurtsmaybe healing hurts somewhere among these new hillsthe scent of His Touch, Golgotha smiles pain is a quick teacherlike His Bruised Eyes. 🌱✝️🌿

  • Alabaster Tears

    20th Mar 2026 by

    27/40lent 🌿✝️🌱 All she had was the costliest offering: her tears. Each wrapt years of prayers she didnt know how to sayHe knew. He saw. He loved her heartShe asked nothing, she only gave. The alabaster jar carried perfume worth all she owned. All she saw was her God. And He was bigger than the… Read more

  • How Does God See You?

    19th Mar 2026 by

    26/40Lent 🌱🌷🌿 Be a mirror to my soul LordThis day, this dusk, this night, I must know, see, how You see me. If we were together in Gethsemane, would you ask me to stay awhile with You? Would You trust me with Your safety; would You know for sure, I wouldn’t deny You when asked?… Read more

  • The grammar of Prayer?

    16th Mar 2026 by

    25/40Lent I talk to You, and Your Words fill my heartwith places I’ve not beenthe itinery of prayerdefies rules ofvisibilityprayer changes things Or it changes me.And I meet “Compassion” & itChanges meChanges me

  • Broken things

    14th Mar 2026 by

    24/40Lent Hymn of the OlivesIts lyrics pour scents of pure worship, accents of perfumeflowing from locksto our sole, sole keys of Praise-soul, mine, singof that NardHe went to Mt. Olivespast Kidron’s ravines, vale of aloneness, taking BCfrom AD; Vine press of CrushingI stare at, from here/ receive from here:a Cup of grape, the touch of… Read more

  • Loving Beyond the Tide

    14th Mar 2026 by

    23/40Lent To be the Love Jesus talked of That be my desire Today Forever No matter the tide no matter the straits Between gulf, shore and mine No matter the day, the dialogue -.to be like Him, is to love like Him always Always I pray

  • Cross-Country

    12th Mar 2026 by

    22/40Lent Walk with me up narrow valley bendsor by gullies in our minds.these are strange Times. You were here, Jesus: not much reallychanges. Inside we are still alone, afraid, Inside we do not stop looking for the perfect travel- mate Love every kind of transport really, just no bungee jumping, tightrope travel or para gliding… Read more

  • Beauty in a Beast

    11th Mar 2026 by

    21/40 I meet You in the simplest facesand when You open my eyes to You, the Lines fall, in pleasant places. Here even my braying turns to sweet incense, in Your Presence.Here I pray, Abba, here why’d You choose the donkey above all other animals to ride You from Birth, to Palm Sunday? Are donkeys… Read more

  • Fasting from Negativity

    11th Mar 2026 by

    20/40Lent Abba, Meet me Benhur – the movie is old school, in timeless display of hate, love, beauty, ugliness, war, crimes for peace; It details stunning moments in lepers valley, and at the Cross. Starting with Bethlehem. it wraps around The Jesus at a desert scene with thirsting Benhur and fuddled Soldier. (Fuddled is my… Read more

  • A Woman’s Prayer

    8th Mar 2026 by

    Lent 19/40 Dear Lord,Its a beautiful day, not a cloud -But somewhere someone dries her tears alone.I’m guilty of receiving too much sunshine, of walking on, when I should’ve stopped, last night 11pm, that woman we saw was ragged with sleep and a baby…between traffic lights; life’s too fast and I’m too slow. Can it… Read more

  • Finding Strength in Forgetting Our Feet

    7th Mar 2026 by

    18/40Lent Forgetting all our feats, proprieties, forgetting gravity formality? Who knows what we be if for one second, we forget our own two feet- Fearless in the presence of Almighty Love.This is what I learnedtoday, when I read how Jesus did, and What He is for you& me

  • Not be a “RUDE- olph” please

    7th Mar 2026 by

    17/40Lent for FMF Writers If there’s one thing I find hard to tolerate, it is a grown person not being Polite to a child… ( or anyone for that matter). Jesus was partial to little ones I think. “Do not stop them from coming to Me,” He told His disciples. As a parent I can’t… Read more

  • Losing my “Self “

    5th Mar 2026 by

    16/40#LentenCreatives Held by What never Let goI hold on. The day this Oil was painted, a friend of a friend walked in with chatty husband and cooing baby. I had set to work in the corner of our L Shaped room facing acres of quiet. We weren’t expecting anyone; I spread out every thing I… Read more

  • Lenten stories by the Sea

    4th Mar 2026 by

    15/40 #Lent ’26 🌱 Lenten2026 blogging 🌿 If I were to write an Autobiography? My opening line might go, “I am the daughter of a Lighthouse…” (That is too ambiguous?) Well its true and more. I grew up at Lighthouse compounds in Indian coasts from Kanyakumari, to Gujarat 200 kms near our national border. I… Read more

  • March whispers, “There will be more than Peace..”

    2nd Mar 2026 by

    13th day of Lent’s 40 🌱✝️🌿 …there will be Peace that surpasses human understanding; beyond this I cannot know what to ask. Sacred Verse says there will be rumors and there will be wars. We all know there will be Life and there will be Death there will be babies gone and old men living.… Read more

  • Wings of war

    2nd Mar 2026 by

    12/40 verse Lent from the Cross This moment has wings, and I let it fly in the winds over our wars. I let it soar in the fires of human anger, pain, loss, withdrawals, I lean them in the winds of change, watch how they re- arrange Us. These are the wings of Praying? I… Read more

  • Finding Stillness Through Compassion

    28th Feb 2026 by

    11/40 The only heaviness in the garden is His Compassion. It is almost scary beautiful. Wearing nails, and a braid of thorns for crown.: Compassion does not rest. It is a Verb. It could scare satan. “That’s right.” Christ replies, His eyes are a vow. I tremble, not wanting to watch what will follow. Don’t… Read more

  • Gratitude & Grace

    27th Feb 2026 by

    10/40 lent Nurture For FMFWriters Our girl Vihan- with another Beauty of a Worship song. We filmed this at one of the best places you can visit at Coorg, loved the experience. Feeling the Nurture and loving touch of God in the tiny detail. I know we humans are prone to look at the darker… Read more

  • Unplugged Prayer in a Busy World

    26th Feb 2026 by

    9/40 Lent What dyou do whenyour words fall like playing blocks?They stack in the walls of your heartand fall out your ears, tiny dangle eardrops inmorning dew?I came here to pray and You are here but You’re not like I thought You’d be – not tense about grammar. You’re the Face of a Song, the… Read more

  • Drink Deep: Healing in Christ’s Love

    25th Feb 2026 by

    8/40L breathe be heldbe loveddrink deepat the fountain of Lifemake room for your mindlean every cell, every muscleof soul, hold, lean, love back, freely you’ve received, freely giveHis mercy kisses hateLoving kindness heals unrighteousnessDo not holdbackRest sweet, breathe longdrink deep, at the Healing in Christ- you and I.

  • Emptied of emptiness : Full of Promise.

    25th Feb 2026 by

    7/40 If there was a script for ‘being Held’ ; if this emptying were a Jar, and I’m held by Hands I can’t understand but sense deep – then I’m resting, right here. If there were a Script for this Moment, it is syllables of this Sacred Silence. I’m held by a Love that holds… Read more

  • Game of Thorns

    24th Feb 2026 by

    6/40L Lord dearest God, Thank You for sitting me down with You before this next 24 hours spin. I’m a Place with You; We’re a Vineyard,A Vineyard of Souls. How much time will pass before we all realize what You’ve done for us? What will this year, the next 6 months hold for us each?… Read more

  • The Speechless Prayer

    23rd Feb 2026 by

    5/40 L.✝️ Here lean, rest. Who said all we have, are words? Who says all we need is healing? Sometimes there is little comfort in fulfillment,in the quenching of dreamsin the silenced things-oh sometimes the Waiting is the sweetest prayer: the invisible moment, an answer all by itself. Here rest, my soul, my soul, arrest… Read more

  • 40 Days, 40 diverse writers @the Cross.

    22nd Feb 2026 by

    4/40 🌿 I’ve had the privilege of writing with some of the finest, in this Lenten Devotional : ‘Shaped by the Lamb’, inviting you to reflect on the Person of Jesus. “The desire is to become like the One we follow…” Says Rev.Dr. Cecil Clements who delivers the Word in everyday language that is both… Read more

  • When Healing is not what we thought.

    20th Feb 2026 by

    3/40 LENT For FMF Writers : Bury Mid noon. Our son’s birthday. Its a lull right now, after wishes poured in and gifts were opened. We’ve stalled some of his surprises for later. There’s been cooking and cakes, pictures put up, serial lights …he hates balloons but wants them? The bunch kept falling off from… Read more

  • Courtesy of the Cross

    20th Feb 2026 by

    Day 2 of Lent Some one asks me where exactly I’m from : India has a few parts, all of which root back to hemispheres -who- knows?! I’m southern Indian, with Christian roots, and accents from all our teachers & mates we grew with. That and more. The bloodline of Faith. The Cross. That lineage,… Read more

  • Hold hands with Stillness

    18th Feb 2026 by

    It falls, layer on layermist beams & breezea forest full of peace,a family of peacock graze they eye us and look awaythere is no sound here just the sky’s blue just the dusk gold;a gang of wild boar press onthey’re carrying invisible burdensthey’re snouting, they’re arriving somewhere;we soak the silencehold hand with StillnessIt’s a prayer,… Read more

  • ‘Miracle under your feet’ @ Lalibella.

    8th Feb 2026 by

    🌱✝️🌿 “Necessity is the mother of Invention.” Whose proverb is this? Nj’s friend Zuben has work in Ethiopia – he gives us some great coffee from there. Ethiopia, (coffee & Jebena pot to brew it, served with popcorn, injera breads)…hosts Universal Appeal for something more than its roasted coffee. Locals whisper of a unique crew… Read more

  • Longing

    7th Feb 2026 by

    Is Longing a prayer, Is waiting a request? My high school Principal isn’t someone I think wants to talk me, but after all this time, thru a series of events, she and I got to chat on a video call. S.Rosa is bedridden and takes a while to form her words. After looking at me… Read more

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