by Prasanta | May 8, 2015 | God's love, Poetry, Writing
My heart bursts its banks Spilling beauty and goodness. I pour it out in a poem to the king Shaping the river into words. The Message, Psalm 45:1 #writefromafullwell
by Prasanta | Jul 24, 2014 | God's love, Home Education, Work
I sat beside him with a ruler and showed him how small a millimeter is, and how many of them it takes to make a centimeter. I thought about what it means for me, and for him, to know this, and why? I called out spelling words for a test, reviewed vocabulary...
by Prasanta | Jul 22, 2014 | God's love, Jesus, 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 | Jun 6, 2014 | God's love, Poetry
Gently Cupped Hand When flowers fall down from heaven floating toward tumultuous land I know not where fragility ends as I’m caught in gently cupped hand. Vapors exhume in darkness but vapor of breath am I Weapons circle sharp around me–...
by Prasanta | Apr 1, 2013 | God's love, Uncategorized
Dear Daughters of Eve: You aren’t defined by the fashion magazines’ ideas of beauty. You aren’t defined by the clothes you wear. You aren’t defined by the color of your hair, eyes, or skin. You aren’t defined by the number on the scale. You aren’t defined by the...
by Prasanta | Dec 24, 2012 | God's love, One Thousand Gifts, Quotes
“It seems, then,” said Tirian, smiling to himself, “that the Stable seen from within and the Stable seen from without are two different places.” “Yes,” said the Lord Digory. “Its inside is bigger than its outside.”...
by Prasanta | Dec 10, 2012 | Gifts, God's love, One Thousand Gifts, Thankfulness
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. James 1:17 When the sun is shining full and bright above, and the sun’s light falls upon me, it casts a shadow. If there...
by Prasanta | Nov 17, 2012 | God's love, God's Word, Hope, One Thousand Gifts, Promises, Thankfulness
I’m not. And I will never be… forsaken. Forsaken… like a bride abandoned at the altar… like Jane Eyre left standing in white, when she finds out her beloved Rochester is really married to someone else. Forsaken. But– I will never be...
by Prasanta | Sep 29, 2012 | Beauty, Creation, God's love, Journey, Perspective, Treasures
Colors emerge like hidden jewels, sparkling in the sun. The season is turning, and once again I contemplate the beauty and lesson of the deciduous Tree. Its branches are always lifted upward like arms in praise. With a dark, cold season approaching, Tree surrenders...
by Prasanta | Aug 16, 2012 | God's love, Gratefulness, Hope, Journey, One Thousand Gifts, Thankfulness, Worship
Sometimes, you just need this reminder. That, even while cracks and fissures are opening all around, that the walls may be crumbling… that there are still… 10,000 reasons to thank Him. To worship. This song ministers to me each time I hear it… and I...
