#faith
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Cross-Country
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… Continue reading
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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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Losing my “Self “
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… 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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Longing
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… Continue reading
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When a forest talks to you
..it tells you its secrets, its fears. Here you must not be afraid to listen. 🌱 I’ve heard it said, “There are things the trees whisper,” but walking through the trees past the Galivneshi house we were at last month, I felt something. For one, I heard pages rustling. These were pages of books that… Continue reading
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If this Blog-Post were a One-Pot- Meal
🍝Hello February 2626🍜 Error in the auto generated image below: but it is quite a number to look at. 2626*. That’s 600 years down … oh my, will there be Blogs? Where’ll you and I even be? *Not what I was thinking on, while doing this Post. Was having a calm Day2 here, complete with… Continue reading
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..you been on a trip, you were in awe and don’t have great words or pics, leave alone blogability ..?
First our booking at a Paloya Lodge got mysteriously canceled. Three hours later we find a villa by the confluence of two rivers; India they say rightly, is not for ‘beginners’ the whole week still vivid with images I’ve not really seen out the window before. Lorry next to us, had these leaves tied to… 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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Why Blogging is My Best Form of Communication
🌿 🌿Here there are no caste wars, there are bragging rights, here you yell, sulk, mope, rave, pray, Atheist & Psalmist share pew & podium. There aren’t Dislike buttons. 🌿The rules are simple. You’re free to not comment. Here I’ve met some of the best,and here I’m learning Humility, Guts, Creativity, Humor, Grace. Here too,… Continue reading
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Dad
🖋 I still can’t think of you in a place without me. But then, you are in the bones of my being – the pulse of my heart. On this Day years ago, you went with God. I cannot describe how it felt and feels to not have you in this life here. 🌿 Then… Continue reading
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What’s the greatest gift someone could give you ?
🌱🌿 If a human life could be saved through mine, that’d be the greatest Gift a person could give me, because nothing else in this life is permanent. We may have 206 bones and some tendon/ flesh on it, but shut our eyes and we are that inner life where spirit, soul meet bone marrow.… 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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✝️he Cross & Christmas#Advent2025
#24 A Prayer a Day 🌿 Human Whisperer: Saviour of my soul, You wake me morning by morning, Lord God, today You led me to a little town manger bathed in starlight, Your gaze leading me past my need for affirmations, {“is He (God) real?“} confirmations, oh- looking past human tendencies to doubt You :… 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
