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Beauty in a Beast
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… 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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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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Will Future Generations read what we Post here today @WordPress?
#LENT 2026, 14/40 Timeless Prayers🌿Letter to our Readers, 50 years downwill you find these Blog Posts, will y’all still be reading off the Net? You be stationed on a moon? What must I post now, to be relevant decades down & here, now.🌿 Hi, I’m so glad you’re here. (Guess we’re still reading the same… Continue reading
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40 Days, 40 diverse writers @the Cross.
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… Continue reading
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Courtesy of the Cross
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,… Continue reading
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“If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring in a folding chair.”
Shirley Chisholm. You face discrimination? You or I quickly making us an exclusive “healthy” club – not with the ‘weak’? If so* say so, no hide. Or forever hold thy pieces : & if so, its time to take a break from that * and please not (easy) to slip into an acquired nature. Some… Continue reading
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WINGS 2026
When I was a little girl I grew wings in the heels of my feet. It was around New year, waiting to see a desperate prayer answered. (They’d drop away each time I lost some belief – but I never forgot that first brush of Faith’s wings). That year my need was a soft toy… Continue reading
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30th already?
#30.prayer-a-day Dear Creator mine/ours, This day has a whole different energy. Thank You, for every memory and the new ones we will make today. We’re an earth full of images, needs, wants, opinions, agendas, bruises, healings, altars, disrepair, guns, roses, thefts, fear, sadness, shadows, light, noises, silences, pain, meds, transit lounges, tables, chairs, homes, rooms,… Continue reading
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3 Key notes in the Song of Freedom
#Prayer- a- day. 26,27,28. 📯 Father, There are days with no words, just Resting* Listening**, Leaning***, like a weaned babe in You: these 3 Moments unlocking Gateways… 📯 *I rest, rooted in You.**Listening for Your Pulse – my breath.***Leaning on Your Sap, my Strength. 🔔 What these 3 Keys* unlock for me : 🎶Faith x… Continue reading
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Soul Chef Kitsy!
God still sends people with the unstoppable Good News! Our Kitsy just released her soulful cover,”EMMANUEL,”on the happy heels of Vihan’s “Noel“! “How beautiful the Feet of those who bring His Good News…” It is not just about singing, but reaching into that realm where words become tears in the Presence of His Majesty. “Be… Continue reading
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..room for Jesus at our Mall? @Advent2025
#20 prayer-a-day Dear God May today and the rest of my life, find You in every turn I take: in malls, smaller places, zebra crossings, under bridges, in sweet or peppered tempers, oh- in hugs, in rejections, in warmshine, or chilly mist, may I find You- You looking for me, waiting in the cross roads… Continue reading
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Miracle for a Tribal Chief@an island: east coast India#Advent2025
#17 Dear God, no matter what happens today, help me hold on to Your Power: that same Power that raised Jesus from the dead . 🌿🌏🌱 I saw this “What Christmas means to me,” prompt on Turntable talk . Perfect! For me Turntables remind me of Tony Hancock’s inimitable Scrooge: a half hour of Entertainment’s… 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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Whispers of Miracles#Advent2025
For FMFWriters: Sale . Today’s Prayer Dear God. I wish praying was as easy as going to a SALE! but prayingis first – raking out yards of bitter root soil? Praying is : You emptying me of a year’s burned ash&bark? I couldn’t have guessed, but here I am- an emptied Jar. Show me what… 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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Coffee Angel with broom #Advent2025
: Celebrating Christ in every place He leads us thru’ #11. Today’s Prayer: ‘Gratitude when its hard” : … for surprise touches of angel-wing,I give You Gratitude for these & million things. For thorny soil where lilies bloom, I give You thanks my God, I give You thanks- 🥀 It was December and our parent’s… Continue reading
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Prayer & Discrimination#Advent2025
#10 You did this Lord:from Cradle to the Cross, You kept no memoir of wrong You looked away and beyondinto Eternity. Teach me how. 🍃 🍃 Discrimination : it lurks in our blue collars, walks tall in our make- believe Gandhi boots. Like it or not, the Thing is here to stay and will try… Continue reading
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Guest Post: “Simeon and the Holy Work of Waiting.” By the Devotional Guy #Advent2025
. The Devotional Guy™ is a blog written by Rainer Bantau, offering wisdom for faithful living as a Christian in a post-pandemic world. Rainer Bantau’s phrase, ‘Holy work of waiting’ caught my eye just now. We haven’t had a Guest Post in a while, and this one is so on point, it had to be… 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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Embracing Creativity: Painting Prayer in December
#7 Dear God,Teach me Your CreativityHow You make leaves glowin billion shades of brown green yellow red white. Dear God, as a midnight clear fills with star mist, teach me how to associate creativity, prayer and social existence in this great bigPlanet too too wide to fit rightinto. I need You. Like neverbefore. December is… Continue reading
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Unlocking the Gates of FAITH, HOPE & LOVE in the Vineyard of Prayer
🍃 Reflections @ Mt.Olive, garden Gatshemonem, Kidron ravine Vinepress, here Yeshua (born Bethlehem), prayed few words that still involves all Humanity: prayer of the Prince of Peace inviting me to seek Him with all my Heart. Soul, Mind, no shopping lists attchd., #6 “…..Lord Often I treat you like santaclaus. My bad. Could I just… Continue reading
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The Halting Prayer
🍃 6 pm brrr. Our city looks like an Impressionist Painting of smog. Jita peers back through the tiniest opening of her door. We used to be good friends, now she lets none of us in. The last time we tried, the eyes were like glass. Her nephew’s family visits on occasion. Jita lost her… 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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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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Deadly Secrets of shhhalloween!
“ …how about doing what really scares you…” Vihan Damaris. “What saddens me is that we aren’t scared of death,… we’re scared of God…“ Part II of yesterday’s Post, nudged by our family friend the talented Chef Shaz Sol, U.K. “..waiting to hear the unfinished smoke you just started, ….to be cont’d….?” 🍃 Nj, Vi… Continue reading
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The Best Is Yet To Be*
Not for the fainted hearted; for Jaci, Wanj, and all of us, for Real I cannot speak or think. Its a nightmare. Or is it? I wake and here the tide shoves my mattress, am blanketed with sub-zero Hope. “Take the key.” His whisper is a shout. I weep, He wipes my tears from the… 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
