by Prasanta | May 21, 2018 | Depression, God, God's Faithfulness, God's love, God's Protection, God's Word, Hope, Loneliness, Loss, Psalms, Shelter
Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know. – Jeremiah 33:3 (NIV) Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known. – Jeremiah 33:3...
by Prasanta | Jan 23, 2018 | Beauty, God, God's Faithfulness, God's promises, Promises
The spirit hovered over the waters. Before it all began, His breath was here, blowing dreams into being. Mighty oaks, redwoods, the earth’s crater-bowls of oceans, large blocks of land, the unending sky… all were here in the beginning. He made it so. Creation still...
by Prasanta | Nov 30, 2017 | Books, God, Intentional Living, Journey, Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Maturity
The Sacred Slow: A Holy Departure From Fast Faith by Alicia Britt Chole *Book Review “This book may read you,” the back cover says. “Ours is a hurried age, in which speed is deified and waiting is demonized. Ours is a cluttered age, in which noise is...
by Prasanta | Nov 23, 2017 | God, God's Faithfulness, God's love, God's promises, God's Word, Gratefulness, Poetry, Prayer, Thankfulness
What are you thankful for today? Thanksgiving is a day set aside to pause, reflect, and to give thanks to the giver of all good gifts. * for the calm within a swirling storm for abiding peace amidst wars within and without for the everpresent source of strength when I...
by Prasanta | Jun 12, 2017 | God, Purpose, Summer, Writing
It feels like the middle here. This is where we have to choose, while here in this middle ground. The “middle” can possess some negative connotations: “Don’t get caught in the middle…The middle child…” It’s like sitting...
by Prasanta | Jan 20, 2017 | God, God's love, Poetry, Promises, Purpose
image source Presence Like snowflakes that softly fall, so is my love for you, landing gently around you, enveloping you like a cloud, a covering of white. You will feel me, not as a coldness, as the real snow of a real winter, or like the breath of this...
by Prasanta | Aug 3, 2012 | Five Minute Friday, God, God's love
The spirit hovered over the waters. Before it all began, His breath was here, blowing dreams into being. Mighty oaks, redwoods, the earth’s crater-bowls of oceans, large blocks of land, the unending sky… all were here in the beginning. He...