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Guts & the ‘God With Us’ #Advent2025
#19 A Prayer-a-day Lord God, When I think of the Manger & Good Friday together, then I need ask for the Guts to be a little like You: that Strength that stooped to wash another’s feet. How can our Earth even tolerate itself today? Oh let the Sap (Strength) of Your Fingers crush every fear, 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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What if we all truly knew what happens when we pray?#Advent2026
#14(A Prayer- a-day) (My) Dear God, I’m getting to love blogging these Prayer-a-Day/s. Today we went to a new church, all the Christmas bows were out, also a Tree with lights in it. Everyone was so kind, they all seemed to know You. I’m thinking how You love everyone. So am doing my bit too….am 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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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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#Advent2025✨Heart of the Shepherd
#8, Oh Lord God, may every man, woman and child receive Your Peace, Love & Joy- in Faith that we are so very loved by You🌷 Timi was upset. He didn’t want to be in shepherd’s worn out clothes for Advent Sunday Theme: Song for a Shepherd. Everyone’s choice was Timi. He didnt just sing 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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A Heartfelt Thanksgiving.
Reflections by the River If you call otters wild, then yes, we’ve seen a sweet couple of them recently… (WPress prompt: wild animals). Coorg will always be one of our fav places in the world: the memories here are rich with change, with life. Top of Mercara Hill is the church we got married at. 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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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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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
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Gandhi, Gujarat & me
Our window overlooks national army land. 100 meters from my window. If the light is good, I can see some of their uncut face skin, their arms and shoes. Sweet dearest Lord God, am not swearing, but they go to Kargil/ wherever, while I sit here trying not to be a crab, for a mean 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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“What happens when you pray?”
When we finish all our words, we become a lesser piece of us, and more of another… I let go of my own words, my prayer lists; now I’m more a child- zero hesitation. This can be silent. Silenced expectation, a separate place. Something new. Awkward. Changed. You’re not just a body, you’re all soul. Continue reading
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Transformative Affection: From Grape to Grace
it is The Secret Place. 5 am. Not meant for the faint hearted. My glacier melts like old ice into summer. The Grim Reaper sizzles, overtaken by the Lord of the Harvest! You’ve been to the original Garden of Gethsemane? – by Olive garden, & Vine -press Gatshemonem, by the Kidron valley ravine, under where 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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Date with my daughters
The legacy you leave, is from what you’ve received….everything your own mothers gave you (gran & all). Everything – by the sheer grace of God. We sit across a warm table packing with raw ripe humor, trust, faith, candidness! We’re each a denomination of His Love, a major helping of His Mercy & Patience. I’m 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
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Opposed, and ye✝
My land is a billion+ full of opposed cultures, we are old and young, sweet sour bitter. This morning we are 79 years into a Democracy that’s well- set to a sizzle. We are a collection of differences. Me, I collect verses from Calenders, in awe of how a verse speaks right off the wall Continue reading
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We see not with eyes, but with our mind
Annama sees through my face. There’s a hoard unlocking out of her. I see Us in her, I see our accumulated communal… local/global grief, I see forbidden joy in her sparkling eyes, and then the tears fall. She cannot forgive herself, nor the family that’ve abused her over the years. So she walked away from Continue reading
