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...
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...
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 | Jul 20, 2012 | Five Minute Friday, God's love, Hope
What I give: Enough. What He gives? More than. When I’m fed up, I say, “I’ve had enough!” What He says? “I AM.” What I offer? Just. What He offers me? More than. It’s always this, Him giving more than, Him being more than. The...
by Prasanta | Jun 4, 2012 | Friendship, One Thousand Gifts, Relationships, Spring, Summer, Thankfulness, Writing
The muse is kind of quiet lately. I don’t have a fantastically clever post, superb thesis statement, or beautiful prose. Maybe it’s just as well, since these weeks are more than full, and it’s perhaps grace during a busy time. I have much on my mind,...
by Prasanta | May 16, 2012 | Family, Gifts, Giving, God's love, Love, Mothering, Mothers, One Thousand Gifts, Receiving, Teaching Children
My birthday was last week. I am driving the kids somewhere when they ask me a question: “Mom what do you want for your birthday? What kind of cake do you want?” Nice questions, no? I could have said, “It doesn’t matter. Anything is fine. Give...
by Prasanta | Apr 25, 2012 | God's love, sorrow, Wisdom
A friend posted this on her facebook status recently: ”I walked a mile with Pleasure;/ She chatted all the way;/ But left me none the wiser/ For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow,/ And ne’er a word said she;/ But, oh! The things I learned...
by Prasanta | Apr 4, 2012 | Beauty, Change, Jesus, Love, Thankfulness, the cross, Transformation
“What Will a Life Magnify?” As he walked to calvary, as people spat and spurned, did Jesus continue to give thanks to God the father? When he was so greatly burdened, bowed down with the heavy load, bruised, agonizing, and all he could see were the dusty...
