by Prasanta | Apr 4, 2022 | Becoming Whole, Belonging, Community, culture, Diversity, Identity, Immigrant Stories, Journey, Podcast Guest, Purpose, race, The Mudroom
I was honored to share at The Mudroom Blog Podcast last week! If you missed my post. Of Thorns and Belonging, you can read it here. To listen to part of my journey, with background information on the article, I invite you to listen to the podcast here. It was a joy...
by Prasanta | Mar 30, 2022 | Becoming Whole, Belonging, culture, Healing, Identity, Immigrant Stories, Immigration
“Your Task” Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. Protecting A long wind brushes its fingers through the trees in a stretched whisper. It moves angrily, shakes and...
by Prasanta | Dec 16, 2018 | Advent, Becoming Whole, Change, Family, Freedom, Friendship, Intentionality, Relationships, Time
Perhaps you will be asked if you will be traveling somewhere this Christmas. Perhaps you will be asked what food item you will contribute to an annual potluck. Perhaps others are expecting you to plan an event because you always plan said event. Perhaps you will be...
by Prasanta | Oct 23, 2017 | Art, Beauty, Becoming Whole, Brokenness, Children, Growth, Healing, Journey, Story
“Are you thinking with me / Of the moon at the mountain’s edge?”- Izumi Shikibu (Japanese poet) Someone posted this beautiful painting on Twitter the other day, and it reminded me of this post I had begun writing a few weeks ago. * Recently, I...
by Prasanta | Aug 30, 2017 | Becoming Whole, Books, Faith, Hope, Jesus
“Goodbye is a necessary life skill.” – from Beth Moore’s book, Get Out of That Pit Indeed. In our lives we have circumstances in which saying a goodbye could be difficult and painful. And then, there are also those awkward kinds of...
by Prasanta | Dec 8, 2014 | Beauty, Becoming Whole, Purpose
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” ~Michelangelo 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...
by Prasanta | Apr 23, 2012 | Art, Becoming Whole, Creativity, Faith, One Thousand Gifts, Promises, Quotes, Writing
Last fall, we planted about a hundred in our yard– yellow, red, and pink tulips, and a row of daffodils. The yellow ones bloomed this past week, spurts of sunshine in the yard. When I was about 8 or 9, we went to a drive-in movie (remember those?) and we watched...
by Prasanta | Apr 11, 2012 | Beauty, Becoming Whole, Community, Compassion, Failure, God's love, grace, Healing, Jesus, Journey
The day blooms red. The tulips, bursting red on Sunday, remind me of blood that dripped that day…. And of the drippings of my own heart. Piercings by this world. By enemies. The deepest ones, by friends. Piercings he also knew, as a man. I need a salve, and I...
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 | 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,...
