by Prasanta | Feb 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
known and not alone known and not alone He has more thoughts of me, of us, than anyone. Not only does he think of me more than anyone else, he thinks thoughts and plans plans that are beyond my imagination. Putting hope in something or someone else will lead to great...
by Prasanta | Feb 24, 2012 | Beauty, Becoming Whole, Five Minute Friday, Purpose
He comes in with tools of various kinds. The tools don’t look like the usual types, but they do a similar sort of work as a carpenter or sculptor. Work begins on the project. Parts are cut off, sections are chiseled. Gradually, a form begins to take shape. If...
by Prasanta | Feb 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
It’s the part of my story I’ve often wished didn’t exist. It’s the part of another’s story I’ve often wondered about. It’s that part of our stories that most of us, at some time or another, would want to wish away. A story has...
by Prasanta | Feb 20, 2012 | One Thousand Gifts, Promises, Thankfulness
There is a place where cypress and myrtle grow instead of thorns and briers. There is One whose thoughts and ways are higher than man’s. I’ve heard one can go there to buy wine and milk– for no price. In this place, trees clap their hands and...
by Prasanta | Feb 16, 2012 | God's love
They are young and the time is short. If I turn around they’ll be gone and the grandmothers say it goes by like that. But some days, it takes an external force pushing me, propelling me. Even with a fierce mama’s heart and love, there are days when I am...
by Prasanta | Feb 13, 2012 | Christianity, Faith, God's love, God's Word, Knowing Jesus
With the rest of the family at youth retreats, it is only my eight-year old and myself for most of the weekend. We had plans, he and I: movies, snacks, baking muffins, games. We did it all, too. We baked pumpkin muffins and pumpkin bread, watched movies, played chess...
by Prasanta | Feb 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
5 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. 6 If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in...
by Prasanta | Feb 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
between the eyes they put the red a dot millions of dots centered on millions of heads a drop a billion drops spilled for a billion heads by One who came as blood-dripping vine supplying life to grafted branches whose vein still bleeds, pulses, offers drops of life...
