by Prasanta | Mar 8, 2017 | Hope, Poetry, Spring
I didn’t plan to write about trees. It just so happens I saw a poem about willow trees on a website, and a corresponding article about willow trees and aspirin, which prompted me to write about willow trees here. I happened to come across a poem (posted near the...
by Prasanta | Dec 13, 2016 | Advent, Hope, Jesus, Journey, Joy, Pain, Path, Truth
38 “How many loaves do you have?” he asked. “Go and see.” When they found out, they said, “Five—and two fish.” 39 Then Jesus directed them to have all the people sit down in groups on the green grass. 40 So they sat down in groups of hundreds and...
by Prasanta | Mar 30, 2016 | 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 when I was baptized… but it’s years later when I read Ann Voskamp’s prose in her Journal, where she writes about...
by Prasanta | Dec 30, 2015 | Hope, Jesus
The song “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” reminds me of Job when I read the following lines: And in despair I bowed my head: ‘There is no peace on earth, ‘ I said ‘For hate is strong, and mocks the song Of peace on earth, good will to...
by Prasanta | Dec 17, 2015 | Advent, Hope
Conversations are replete with statements of events, gatherings, to-do lists… I rarely hear anyone say they have ample time to rest this time of year. Is it possible to choose rest and consider long and deep the meaning of the holy night so long ago? Instead, I...
by Prasanta | Nov 25, 2015 | Compassion, God's love, Hope, Uncategorized
I am at a loss for words, with acts of terror and crime and hatred and so much bad. Evil seeks to devour the good. A couple of days ago, I came across these words written by C. S. Lewis in The Great Divorce: “Here is joy that cannot be shaken. Our light...
by Prasanta | Apr 11, 2015 | Hope, Poetry, Spring
Waiting White bell-shaped blooms bend slightly Paying homage to depths beneath Crisp grass forged upward Through a deep darkness By a cataclysmic split Of a tiny seed The ground brims With tiny creatures wiggling Rummaging about the vastness Of open space, displaced...
by Prasanta | Dec 20, 2014 | Advent, Hope
At the cusp of an awaited day, during this season of Advent, we await the coming one. And maybe you are waiting, too, on something — perhaps some news, or something to happen. I am waiting, too. As much as I would like to know the future and God’s plans for so...
by Prasanta | Aug 8, 2014 | Fear, Five Minute Friday, Hope, Jesus, Persecution
I read about it in the news. You have, too. The places where chaos and confusion and persecution have erupted. I am thinking of our Christian brothers and sisters in Iraq, and how an extremist faction has taken over and is filling the people with fear. One day,...
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...
