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Alabaster Tears
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… Continue reading
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How Does God See You?
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?… Continue reading
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The grammar of Prayer?
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 Continue reading
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Loving Beyond the Tide
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 Continue reading
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Fasting from Negativity
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… Continue reading
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A Woman’s Prayer
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… Continue reading
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Not be a “RUDE- olph” please
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… Continue reading
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Lenten stories by the Sea
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… Continue reading
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Wings of war
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… Continue reading
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Courage is not the absence of fear
🌿 A Visit🌿 ‘No he won’t bite or whip tail, but can if provoked.” “Take a picture?” I ask. Animal Educator Simi replies, “Get your face close to his. Stay calm.” Iguana does not blink and I stare with awe at a new widened horizon. What a huge earth it is: Iguana and I are… Continue reading
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Dyou hear the Earth sing?
We are interconnected human experiences, blending trust, forgiveness, and regeneration daily. Continue reading
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I said a prayer for you today
#29. Prayer-a- day …and Father, this is for the one who is alone today. I do not know what to ask, but I feel to go quiet in my heart and wish You’d reach out to them. Even me, because we humans need more than basic Comfort. I do not have a clever prayer. Just… Continue reading
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Room? #Advent2025
#22 -a- prayer- a- day Dear God, Its not like Jesus is going to be born on the 25th, that was 2025 years ago, so why are these days so Stilling? – Like You’re still searching for Room In Our hearts? Continue reading
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Overcoming Hatred with Love and Joy
#15 Prayer-a-day ✡️ Lord, In an earth shooting each other, its hard to be make Joy. Today I want that inner well-ness that doesn’t obey other people’s badness. I want to live in an inner city ruled by the Prince of Peace 🍃🌿🌏🥀🌱Cities I’d like to visit:🌱🥀🌏🌿🍃 Vivacity : the quality or state of being… Continue reading
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“Saviour of Humanity..” #Advent 2025
‘How beautiful the feet of those who spread Good News,on the mountain hill- valley, lanes in desert stretch of soul, or quiet unknown rooms; spreading the GoodNews to some who forgot there is God in a Time so thick with evil. Yea, how beautiful the feet of those who refuse to stop singing to each… Continue reading
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Speechless words #Advent2025
#9 The Silent Prayer Advent2025 . “My Father, I have no words today gratitude, yes, and some more things But can find no proper words to say it forYou to get what I’m saying….”🍃🌷🍃He tells me of my Ma’s threads under a button; securinghook, hem, darned collar unseen, sewed ripped jean, blanket, unseen thread fixed… Continue reading
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Chrysalis of Prayer
#4 it hurt like a burden not anything I knew.The more I pulled back, the more it grewas with feather Light, It lifted me to horizons of brand new SightThey are such misunderstood things, this gift ofWings Continue reading
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Give me the mind of Christ
#2 s l a y. a. g o l i a t h. Another misty 6 am. Am woken up with the words, “Wake up child.” It was a dream? But the heart sings as feet touch floor. It is that morning pre- blue. “Wake up child?” The whole place is smiling. Even the river… Continue reading
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December Prayer
🌷 31 days of Transformation, in the Secret Place -Day 1- Here I am stepping into a new 31. Lord, am unsure of the details: it is like walking on water. But You smile a welcome, Your Arms stretch wide as the banks of a River, a River of Light Father my feet are unsure,… Continue reading
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Our blind mimicker & what the turkeys showed us
: For FMF Writers: Turkey The closest we’ve been to turkeys was at a town -side Eatery, 100 kms from here, few years ago. Our son was at his mimicking best; who knew the place had a Turkey population? Yona heard them and called back with all his lungs. Before we knew it, there were… Continue reading
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For the sheer Joy of being with You
Chilly morning here, low cloud. Dew in my wild flower garden. Monsoon Mantha in our peninsula, is melting down. Mixed emotions after another birthday celebration at home. So we’re a year wiser, closer to Eternity. Kimia, a lane mate from ten years ago called to say Hi, they’re not well and could we pray for… Continue reading
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“I’m not afraid of You..”
“If I give you a boat, I’ll give you an ocean.” He said to me. FMF Writers : ‘Capacity’. I ask NJ what he’d do if someone gave him a boat. He said he’d go fishing! But Im thinking how awkward it’d be, right here with a boat. We’re in the middle of this silly… Continue reading
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Prayers & Parattas: Exploring the Significance of Everyday Moments
At the counter is a yellow kettle, almost like the red one Dad got you from Kolkotta. You used to live by the Bay of Bengal when life was a school kid. Ay. You can be suddenly taken back in Time, to see what’s hard to fully explain In the tastefully set-up Eatery, Royal Parattas… Continue reading
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Spark
The room is dark except for dusk lights seeping in. Paru smiles like she means it. I don’t know whether to sit or stand, this is awkward. She’d lost her entire family in a series of events I don’t want to say. What can you say. After everyone’s gone home to their families, there will… Continue reading
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Its Happening!
You wait, you morph. The prayer you prayed changes you. Your feet break with the running. You grow wings, you fall upwards, in blue skies. You burned out? But the fire around, hedges you in from hell. (“I will be a hedge of fire around you,” He says) It thaws you You curl up, crushed,… Continue reading
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Embracing Faith in September: 🌷the Landscape of Prayer
Pray September! It is another September. She’s notorious, again! In an earth – tinier than a peppercorn in space, we are citizens of 2 Kingdoms, both tangible, invisible almost. We belong to heaven or hell. The air is heady with News. Hurt news. Humanity is not one whole ensemble anymore. Some kneel at gods of… Continue reading
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Handpicked for a Time such as This
Some call it prayer. I’m reeling at the noise of our earth- 🍃 me, like Hannah, in the steps of Tabernacle Shiloh; praying, her syllables drunk in need. The Gardener’s eyes are ripe with light. Here, my heart keels. The noise has gotten inside. Hate has made us hate. Indifference makes us indifferent. How understand… Continue reading
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The Silent Stories of Rain: A Coffee Shop Reflection
The rain fell in the steps outside Crown Coffee. It fell in the trees and on the girl lying in the steps of Crown with her baby. Then the rain fell on truck loads of somethings, and it fell in the slush and gutter and in nice shoes getting off a grey cab, and going… Continue reading
