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I was chatting with one of my connects in my circle. I cannot say that we are friends yet. But we share many common grounds, and lot of things to talk. While chatting on whatsapp, she sent an emoji, which winked at me.  I was using my desktop to chat. My girls were standing next to me, watching me chat.  When the emoji popped on the screen, the girls exclaimed, 'wow... we never knew' with a face that said, you are old for an emoji but, ok we are watching.  For me, the emojis ☺are just the emotions I cant express while I type, to the person on the other end.  Recently, my emotions went on a roller coaster ride for sometime. Frequently, I wondered why my voice was not heard at all.  On many instances, I audibly asked those who ignored my voice.  When they showed indifference, I became restless. People around me, those who stood with me, asked me to calm down.  I felt small with raging emotions inside me. I could not contain myself.  Am I so immature, that I am not able to handle

 My kids were very small at that time.  I decided to go for my driving license. My elder daughter started schooling few days before I delivered the second one.  Until the second one, we walked to school. Now I was not able to bring the little one and walk under the noon sun. So I decided to go for my license.  I waited for few months so that I could leave my little one at home with someone.  I started my classes.  When I returned home it was a war zone! Yet I decided to continue.  Little one was very naughty... yet I continued. I had to pick up my daughter from school, yet I continued...  The day came to write my exams. I appeared for the exam and miserably failed.  Yet I continued. I appeared again and got my license.  When I reached home after the ordeal all heaved a sigh of relief... But I blunt out, "What next?"  "What?" I said, what next.... I could go for a geared license, or a heavy duty license and much more in that line! Why stop somewhere!! I came across t

It's Friday night.   You are getting ready to face the busy weekend. You checked the calendar twice to make sure you are well prepared to receive the visitors this weekend.   All set and you go to bed at peace.   The alarm goes off in the morning, and you are up.   You plan for a quick shower and then hit the road to receive your guests at the airport.   But... But you find no water in the bath.   Pause... Your mind races back ... Oh no... It’s just a leaky cistern which you ignored the previous night, and all the water stored for the next two days are drained!   The drippy cistern was no big deal... But it had drained out all water.  That is exactly what the Lord says in Jeremiah 2:13, My people have committed two sins. They have forsaken me, the spring of living water and have dug their own cistern, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.   When God, Almighty is talking about living water, which never runs dry - our human intelligence searches for ways to dig our o

Mr. Robert was a wealthy business man from the region of Norwich. He received the call of God to serve in India. He wrestled with his call and decided to strike a deal with God. He wanted to save wealth before he left to India.  He invested his money and waited for God's favour. First World War took him away from his family and when he returned, he found that his friends had swindled his wealth. Robert was bitter against God. He decided not to go to India and settled in Canada. After his death his wife raised his 6 children, 2 girls and 4 boys, in God-fearing way.  The boys went their own direction, earning and living their own way. One day on their way to the club, music from a church pulled the boys there.  They stayed there for a while and continued their journey to the club. Youngest of the boys, said, "I can't go.  I have to go back to that church and see what that is all about" .  Brothers did not want anything to do with religion. But Alfred returned

On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king's palace... (Esther 5:1) Proverbs 3:27 says “Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to act”. Esther grew up as an orphan in an alien land. She was raised by a God-fearing Jew Mordecai.  She very well knew that it is an abomination to God to be married to a heathen, no matter what is his status in the community. She was forced into her situation. Esther may not have enjoyed her position. But accepted that she has to act on the crisis. Esther chapter 4 narrates the communication that happened between Esther and Mordecai. Mordecai did not have any difficulty to accept her position as the leader of his people to plead for their lives. He urges her to respond rightly. Now Esther asks Mordecai to gather his people to fast and pray. She, with her helpers fast for three days. Mordecai and Esther were fully aware that their dependence is only

And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth , and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. (Gen. 1:29) Genesis records the history of creation - how the world came into being.  When God created the vegetation, He created them for our health and sustenance – of course with seeds. Genesis 1:11 and 12 say how the earth sprout forth vegetations, plants and fruit bearing trees with seeds. And God saw that they were good. A seed is the life of any plant in dormant condition, which is capable of developing into another such plant. But today market is flooded with seedless fruits and fleshy vegetables. Man changed the genetics of the fruits so that they become sweeter and tastier. This verse makes us wonder, is there a difference that a tiny seed can make to a fruit? Research tells that seeds have more nutritional value than the fruit itself and they are the cure for many illnesses. But, in th