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 | Aug 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
Feeling worn, at the end of August, after a busy month. Anyone? I not only feel physically worn, but also emotionally thin. Life is hectic, with just the stuff of life, but then there are the relationships, and the myriad of strings and pulls and pushes and cuts at...
by Prasanta | Jul 27, 2012 | Five Minute Friday, God's love, Mercy
I like imagining and thinking and conjuring. I could easily spend way too much time dreaming. I’m kind of a dreamer. But, I realize that what I’m imagining, what I’m thinking, what I’m dreaming is but only a tiny sliceo of the real pie. Here I...
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 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
“I and the Father are one.” John 10:30 5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such...
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 | May 15, 2009 | Faithfulness, God's love, Promises, Purpose, Quotes
I found this quote in someone else’s blog and had to share it: It is palpably clear and emphatically true that all that occurs in the Lord’s government of His people conspires for, and works out, and results in, their highest happiness and their greatest good....
