Life
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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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Broken things
24/40Lent Hymn of the OlivesIts lyrics pour scents of pure worship, accents of perfumeflowing from locksto our sole, sole keys of Praise-soul, mine, singof that NardHe went to Mt. Olivespast Kidron’s ravines, vale of aloneness, taking BCfrom AD; Vine press of CrushingI stare at, from here/ receive from here:a Cup of grape, the touch of… 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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Finding Strength in Forgetting Our Feet
18/40Lent Forgetting all our feats, proprieties, forgetting gravity formality? Who knows what we be if for one second, we forget our own two feet- Fearless in the presence of Almighty Love.This is what I learnedtoday, when I read how Jesus did, and What He is for you& me 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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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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March whispers, “There will be more than Peace..”
13th day of Lent’s 40 🌱✝️🌿 …there will be Peace that surpasses human understanding; beyond this I cannot know what to ask. Sacred Verse says there will be rumors and there will be wars. We all know there will be Life and there will be Death there will be babies gone and old men living.… Continue reading
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Gratitude & Grace
10/40 lent Nurture For FMFWriters Our girl Vihan- with another Beauty of a Worship song. We filmed this at one of the best places you can visit at Coorg, loved the experience. Feeling the Nurture and loving touch of God in the tiny detail. I know we humans are prone to look at the darker… Continue reading
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Unplugged Prayer in a Busy World
9/40 Lent What dyou do whenyour words fall like playing blocks?They stack in the walls of your heartand fall out your ears, tiny dangle eardrops inmorning dew?I came here to pray and You are here but You’re not like I thought You’d be – not tense about grammar. You’re the Face of a Song, the… Continue reading
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Emptied of emptiness : Full of Promise.
7/40 If there was a script for ‘being Held’ ; if this emptying were a Jar, and I’m held by Hands I can’t understand but sense deep – then I’m resting, right here. If there were a Script for this Moment, it is syllables of this Sacred Silence. I’m held by a Love that holds… Continue reading
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Game of Thorns
6/40L Lord dearest God, Thank You for sitting me down with You before this next 24 hours spin. I’m a Place with You; We’re a Vineyard,A Vineyard of Souls. How much time will pass before we all realize what You’ve done for us? What will this year, the next 6 months hold for us each?… Continue reading
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The Speechless Prayer
5/40 L.✝️ Here lean, rest. Who said all we have, are words? Who says all we need is healing? Sometimes there is little comfort in fulfillment,in the quenching of dreamsin the silenced things-oh sometimes the Waiting is the sweetest prayer: the invisible moment, an answer all by itself. Here rest, my soul, my soul, arrest… 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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When Healing is not what we thought.
3/40 LENT For FMF Writers : Bury Mid noon. Our son’s birthday. Its a lull right now, after wishes poured in and gifts were opened. We’ve stalled some of his surprises for later. There’s been cooking and cakes, pictures put up, serial lights …he hates balloons but wants them? The bunch kept falling off from… 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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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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The Power of being a little more than Human
FMF Writers: Cold At the Mall last night. we get to its first floor foodcourt and a middle aged man settles next to our son Yona. He’s looking friendly and keen to chat. “Oh no. ” I think, disappearing from the scene to get us some sandwiches. It is near 6 pm. From the corner… 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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Blogging Is An Emotion
What do for leisure? I don’t have it Sir. Or maybe I just use another name for it… 🌿 Today I know this Blogging thing is an Emotion! I’m too old to lie here just lying. 10 pm we get home, from St. jericwpdhes street, Doc’s needle was the size of a tree trunk yesterday,… 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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‘When you felt loved’:
🌿An extraordinary road trip: One time stands out: the road to Kaup beach and back. This beach is a romantic stretch alright, but more so because here my Dad first met Ma. She was all of 11, he was 17.. Long story around the black and white lighthouse : (see coastline in our Speedboat). (Oh… 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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Woman with the Tattoos: Encounters Over Coffee
Invisible diamonds. 🌿 Her brows have tattoos between them. The eyes dark with kohl, observe me over steaming cups of coffee on aluminum tables at Saji’s Coffee House. Outside, an almond tree is ripe with cables that run into asbestos roofing. Everything glistens with rain; the woman searches in her faded rexin bag. Long thin… Continue reading
