A few years into our marriage, I thought I had to have everything thing a house to make it home. I had seen so many homes beautifully decorated. The perfect home that I had always dreamed about. Beautifully flowing drapes, colour coordinated cushions on the couches that looked so comfortable, perfect dining table, creaseless bedcovers…
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Many a times I am left with the thought, am I doing enough as a woman? Am I doing according to what the Bible commands me to? Am I just using a few verses in the Bible as an excuse for not working? Am I taking the Bible out of context and using it to…
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I would like to look at the life of a person as a passenger waiting for a bus. In the bus station there are many passengers and each waiting for their own bus. The bus they hop on to takes them to the place they want to go. This particular bus station of life has many buses…
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” Count your blessings, name them one by one, Count your blessings, see what God hath done! Count your blessings, name them one by one, Count your many blessings, see what God hath done. And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done. “Some where down the line of life I had forgotten to…
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I can draw out learning from almost anything. Recently watched movies – Club 60 and Snow Queen made me realize that sometimes we are so lost in our own world, (its problems, its worries, its cares, what we have lost, what have and things we can’t etc etc., ), that we tend to forget that in someway…
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Recently I watched the movie about a perseverant horse SeaBiscuit and its equally perseverant rider Red. The horse when it was identified was a loser and a rebel of the first order. It took an equally perseverant rider to know his horse and to train his horse and not compare it with the others. The…
DetailsI am a comparison freak. I compare everything. I think about everything and try to learn from whatever small or big that comes my way. This sometimes makes me feel sour because of probably the things that I don’t have /have. Recently I have been worried about this compulsive behavior of mine. That is when…
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I am a critic. Critic of the first order and that automatically also puts me as a perfectionist. I cannot tolerate things that go wrong. I am the first person to notice an error and point it out. Now the other day we were watching a movie and I couldn’t help but notice the fact…
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Recently, I have been learning on Motherhood, women. The women of the older days were different from that of today. Women in the past learnt in quietness, submission and today we are loud and often bossy. The Bible expects women to learn in quietness and in submission, their beauty not defined by the external adornment…
DetailsWhenever I read Proverbs 31, I wonder if there can be any woman who could truly pass the Proverbs 31 test. I always thought this is an ideal condition, probably where we are to reach but never thought that it was achievable. Today I read a blog on Motherhood where John Piper cites his mother,…
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