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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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
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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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Faith & Freedom
Not the safest topic in some convos, where “Faith & Freedom” don’t run together. Meanwhile our girl Vihan Damaris‘s New Original FREEDOM There are at least two stories in this insanely stunning Video: 1. Account of The Christ’s Love for humans, & 2. Kitsy seeing a reflection of Jesu, in the coffee table, off Vihan’s Continue reading
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What’d you let go – for Peace with God?
2. Let go of words that destroy my purpose(things I’ve/ others’ ve said that try break down my very existence) 3. Let go the version of me that is controlled by xyz, (if they even try) 4. Remember that every thing in the Now, the Present, Future, Past, is temporary. Eternity awaits, right here 5. Continue reading
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When India prays, she’s in the floor weeping recognition of Absolute Grace
She’s a War Angel, of a Heaven one must-have; shhlisten. Yahweh breathes; if Music can give me new eyes and lips, if it can flood death with Dawn, this is it. Here Yahweh Himself touches me; if a Song can string every tear into a harp, strumming silences with peace, speechless Peace…this is it… FOR Continue reading
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Habits & Armageddon
Don’t you just wish a day secured with daisies not nuke neighbors promising and delivering Armageddon-type Flings at each other and therefore us all; everyone saying, “Oh the beginning of 3rd World Whirrr,” casually almost, via steel teeth biting off more than can be chewed… you just want a cortisol/ panic hormone free day please, Continue reading
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till its not too late
After the panic and scramble, a nation sits down to grieve a Flight that fell from the skies this week. No survivors except one man who made it out, he doesn’t know how but he did. His eyes keep looking to the sky. Superman one Newsline calls him. And what do we say to the Continue reading
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The Shape of aPrayer
7 am, liquid gold dawn after a night of some rain; I’m praying shut eyed. The shape of such prayers are wordless- is Wordless a shape? Its an Emotion, and today it is palpable. I’m praying like someone leans on a strong wall. Or like running into Refuge in a storm What can I say, Continue reading
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Mayhem in June?
Honour Yesterday, the news was not good; we had a city stampede…! Our mega cricket event this week ended with 11 deaths, from celebrity induced mobs; a collapsed drain…injuries. 2025 has been a rogue year this far, with Messrs.Corona rearing ugly head, plane crashes, fires, floods, wars, rumors. Out in a walk, we saw a Continue reading
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Prayer Bar
devotions @daybreak I sip at Your Cup, You changed bitter to sweet down my throat, over dregs, over blind mute lukewarm insipid overspill from human habit; You’re here, in this shadow of need. The Miracle of This! You here, serving armfuls of a Feast, I sit at Your table, spread before my thoughts. We are Continue reading
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Hey June: What’s your Super power
Humanity’s best kept secret: Our individual Superpowers : that Blessedness that walks us thru a 3am nightmare, a scary trip, a disaster meet: that sudden Strength within that pushes one past despair…? So you shrugged off a tear and walked on; you were shutting down outside, but within – you grinned. You spiritually grinned at Continue reading
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The Voice
10 am., today in a tiny chapel, a newly installed bell rang out. We stepped in thru’ fresh cement front step; this place was being renovated. Padre TS was nervous, it was his first wedding in church English: he dropped his notes, his fingers shook. We all exchanged careful grins. Light filtered in through monsoon Continue reading
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Generations of Verse!
Alice Aunty is feisty and bright eyed at 94+ in purple+pink saree. (She tailored that blouse, and says my Ma taught her..) Chennai is sizzling as we visit her airy first floor Living room, with son Selvan S. (Theologian)- cousin bro has her doe eyes, grand daughter Blessy too. My Dad had them, and his Continue reading
