The right teaching, the right training, the right coaching can only get you so far. The right practice of what you learned is necessary to grow in anything. This is as much true for our spirtual growth as it is true in any other area of life.In the years that I have spent in the…
I work well when I have a long view of a task. I enjoy working on any small module or task when I know what the big picture is. I like to know what I am contributing towards. When I was in school I was told the story of three masons. A man came across…
A strong person is probably rarely afraid of anyone. His stregnth gives him courage in the face of adversity. I have not been a strong person. In a weak moment, God showered his mercy in my life. Since then he has always been gracious to me. His kindness has taken me in the direction of…
I accidentally discovered mandalas. A video popped up in my YouTube feed. I was intrigued and watched a few minutes and discovered potential here. I found an opportunity to show this video to my girls. We worked on a few mandalas. And they have loved it since. Mandalas are patterns that are drawn in concentric…
Yesterday I posted about how nine months ago we rekindled the desire to go to seminary and study. This morning I learned that the scholarship that we were praying for has no funds for the upcoming year. The seminary has made an appeal for funds so that they can make their decision. Usually, they make…
The last nine months have been long and eventful. Early September 2019 a conversation with the missus sparked an old desire. A desire to study. To devote a season to studying and to being discipled so that we would be able to better serve God. This spark led to two conversations with pastor friends who…
I have come to believe that discipline is necessary to live a fulfilling life. The pandemic linked lock-down has been an eye opener for me. I have tried to be disciplined in certain areas of my life. The other areas were subject to binging. Those areas of my life where I practiced discipline would flourish…
I want to be able to write. But I usually do not know what to write about. I kept researching about what one needs to do to overcome the difficulty of not being able to write. Invariable whatever or whomever I read provided only one solution. Write regularly! I just do not understand how can…
It is hard to love! Most people desire to be kind and loving. You do your best in every way possible to be calm and composed and then suddenly-out of nowhere a person or an event triggers you. And… You know what I mean. You have been there and so have I. Our circumstances are…
Legos are just fun for kids. And adults have made such massive lego projects that are mind blowing. But here’s every parent’s nightmare – cleaning up after play time. And sometimes, just sometimes a stray lego might just get under your foot and ouch! We had another minor struggle with our 4 year old using…