by Prasanta | Feb 24, 2012 | Beauty, Becoming Whole, Five Minute Friday, Purpose
He comes in with tools of various kinds. The tools don’t look like the usual types, but they do a similar sort of work as a carpenter or sculptor. Work begins on the project. Parts are cut off, sections are chiseled. Gradually, a form begins to take shape. If...
by Prasanta | May 2, 2011 | One Thousand Gifts, Thankfulness
Keeping a record of thankfulness is a chronicle of more than just thank-you’s. It’s a record of days and memories. It’s a remembrance of deep gratitude to a God who gives me one more day to enjoy His mercy and grace. I can’t believe how much...
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 14, 2011 | Joy
Have you ever seen a top without a bottom? Have you ever seen a left without a right? Can there be a beginning without an end? Can there be good without the bad? How else would we know it was good? Pondering the dichotomies above helped me better understand some of...
by Prasanta | Apr 5, 2011 | Beauty, Change, Jesus, Love, the cross
“What Will a Life Magnify?” Did Jesus practice eucharisteo as he walked to calvary? As people spat and spurned, did he continue to give thanks to God the father? When he was so greatly burdened, bowed down with the heavy load, bruised, agonizing, and all...
by Prasanta | Apr 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
It must have been a long walk. It started with hot, salty tears, poured out, drenching the ground, feeling forsaken by all in the world, but especially by God himself. Must have been a long walk, the longest walk a human could know, the walk from Gethsemane to...
by Prasanta | Jun 26, 2010 | Treasures, Uncategorized
It’s been a whirlwind of a day. This morning started out early. The kids and I left the house at 7:30 am to attend the county’s annual “Breakfast on the Farm”. It was our first time to attend this event, and we even volunteered to help out. N...
by Prasanta | Jun 19, 2009 | Compassion, Faithfulness, God's love, Promises, Purpose, Shelter, Treasures
Who am I, that God should care for me? Who am I, that He cares to know my name? Who am I, that Christ should die for me? “I am a flower, quickly fading, a wave tossed in the ocean…” My life, my days, are like a vapor, quickly disappearing. …...
by Prasanta | Jun 5, 2009 | Christianity, Devotions, Other Posts, Prayer, Promises
Recently I was following a story of a young girl, 12 years old, who lives in my hometown, and who was diagnosed with cancer about 1 1/2 years ago. Sadly, her mother died of cancer two years ago. She has two brothers. I was interested in the story because this family...
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....
