by Prasanta | Aug 31, 2011 | Uncategorized
It looks beautiful, in the big land of Texas, this place of retreat. I’d love to be surrounded by all that beauty. I’d love to write in the cleft of that canyon, watching the turns of the river. The need to write is inscribed somewhere in my DNA, but I need some help...
by Prasanta | Aug 29, 2011 | Worship
Last week Sunday (and Saturday) I was at the lakefront. I was not alone. Thousands of others were there as well, for a special event, called “Rock the Lakes”, sponsored by the Billy Graham organization. When I was a child, our entire family would watch the Billy...
by Prasanta | Aug 28, 2011 | One Thousand Gifts, Promises, Thankfulness
Yesterday I returned to the blogworld, after a brief absence. (I share a little bit of my mini-blog vacation here). The past two weeks have been full, bursting full, with curricula arriving at the door, an abundance of garden produce, and outdoor water fun– and...
by Prasanta | Aug 28, 2011 | Blogging, Writing
Hi. I’ve missed you! I’ve had a brief blog vacation. My mind needed a writing interlude to think and stretch a bit… and once I gave myself permission to rest from blog-writing for a short time, the break turned out to be just the refreshment I...
by Prasanta | Aug 12, 2011 | Beauty, Five Minute Friday
“It [beauty] is to the spirit what food is to the flesh. It fills an emptiness in you that nothing else under the sun can.” Frederick Buechner *** Beauty is important. I love beautiful things; works of art, flowers, sunsets, aptly spoken words, an eagle in...
by Prasanta | Aug 8, 2011 | Art, Beauty, One Thousand Gifts
Summer is flying by, August is whisking me awake to the coming reality of fall. Summer really is coming to an end, and all too soon. Decisions are piling up: what time will music lessons be, which classes should we take, should I join the co-op that is over 20 miles...
by Prasanta | Aug 5, 2011 | Becoming Whole, Five Minute Friday, God's love, Hope, Jesus
My youngest is learning about fractions. For example: If you divide a circle into four equal parts, and shade one of those parts, then what fraction of the circle is shaded? Answer: 1/4 It got me thinking, though, about people, and how all of us are like fractions,...
by Prasanta | Aug 3, 2011 | God's love, Learning, Love
“God’s love is meteoric, his loyalty astronomic, His purpose titanic, his verdicts oceanic. Yet in his largeness nothing gets lost; Not a man, not a mouse, slips through the cracks. How exquisite your love, O God! How eager we are to run under your wings, To eat...
by Prasanta | Aug 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
I had hopes for spending some time alone in the woods, with the camping trip. Last year, we stayed in a different place, and there I walked through a trail in the woods and it was beautiful. I heard the wind whisper through the trees. I had similar hopes for something...
