by Prasanta | Jul 6, 2011 | Faith, Fear, God's love
I want to speak but my words get stuck, caught in my throat and I can’t get out the words. I want to ask so – how is your spiritual life? What about Jesus? I want to know, to speak, to share what Jesus means to me, how much life I have been given and am receiving, and...
by Prasanta | May 25, 2011 | Beauty, Faithfulness, God's love, Life, Promises, Seasons
Are there signs of life, signs of the resurrection, and is there hope for newness, new life in this world? Where? How do I know? If I am honest I can say that there are days or seasons in life when I cannot see so clearly. But then, there are also days and seasons in...
by Prasanta | May 23, 2011 | Failure, Faithfulness, Freedom, God's love, Journey, One Thousand Gifts
I come late to writing today, this Monday… I started a few words earlier in the day, but life’s responsibilities came and took me by the hand. I had little opportunity to write today, little time to reflect on words and thoughts and write them down, flesh them out....
by Prasanta | May 20, 2011 | Change, Faithfulness, God's love
It’s that time of week again: Five Minute Friday! From the GypsyMama’s website, here are the instructions: Got five minutes? Let’s write. Let’s write in shades of real and brave and unscripted. Let’s just write and not worry if it’s just right or not. 1....
by Prasanta | May 18, 2011 | Beauty, Christianity, God's love, Imperfect Prose, Jesus, Love
Legend has it that silk was invented by Chinese Empress His Ling Shi, wife of Emperor Huang Ti, about 3000 BC. One story has her sitting down with a cup of tea, when a cocoon fell right into her cup and began to unravel. Another story has her investigating the cause...
by Prasanta | May 17, 2011 | Faithfulness, God's love, grace
He kept asking me to come look and see, at least every 30 seconds or so. The energetic boy, full of nearly eight years of wonder, was a bit down because of fever and sore throat. He saw a map drawing that big sister had made, which inspired him to create his own. He...
by Prasanta | Apr 23, 2011 | God's love, grace, Hope, Jesus, One Thousand Gifts, Salvation, the cross
I step out of the water, my long hair dripping wet. I was 13 and it was Easter Sunday night in a medium-sized church in the deep south… but it’s years later now that I’m stunned by Ann’s prose in her Journal the other day, where Ann writes...
by Prasanta | Apr 13, 2011 | God's love
I felt dense. On Monday I wrote about how a tiny little hyacinth plant filled the room with its sweet perfume. One commenter noted, innocuously enough, that the post reminded her of the passage from John 12, where the woman breaks open her jar of expensive perfume and...
by Prasanta | Apr 4, 2011 | God's love, One Thousand Gifts, Promises
Is that snow? At first glance I thought– snow?? But no, it was a mess of icy hail we walked through when leaving church on Sunday morning. The hailstorm that dropped from the sky left a blanket of white icy beads all over the ground, coating everything. ...
by Prasanta | Mar 16, 2011 | God's love
Linking up with Ann Voskamp on the theme of “Letting Go” at Walk with Him Wednesdays…. Just yesterday, we watch the little bird bounce through the air. The little creature flies right in front of us, bobbing up and down. His eyes get big, and he...
