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When you love someone, goodbyes are really hard. When our children were small, the thing they hated most of all, was when their Dada left the house- whether it was to go to work or anywhere it else. It didn’t matter to them where he was going or why. If he was going somewhere without them- to them, that was just terrible. Their sobbing would last for a long time after he left. Similarly, when he got home, they had to be reunited with him at the very instant he entered the house and couldn’t bear to part ways even for him to shower. So we came up with a code word called ‘quick exit.’ He would get ready to leave for work, I would keep the children engaged with something, and signal to him- quick exit- and he would leave the house quietly and as unnoticeably as possible. That way the children wouldn’t be bawling their heads off everyday.   As they grew up, they learned that yes, Dada does leave the house and it is painful to say goodbye, but he will come back and it is important to

  Think about it- how many times has it happened that you did due diligence to plan for an important day/event/trip and then something totally different happened that day? Man proposes, God disposes, it seems. Some say, if you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans. To me, that makes God sound like a sadistic person who enjoys disrupting our lives with His whims and fancies. So what if we don’t plan anything and just take each day of life as it comes? Then pretty much nothing that requires planning would get done. If you have a baby and wait till the last minute to buy diapers, you might get none because your local retailer also waited till the last minute to buy it from his wholesaler. If you wait for the school/college to announce the exam time table to start studying, you might find yourself studying to pass rather than excel. So, what do we do then? Keep investing our time and energy planning and then just be ok with it when something totally different happens? How

  The look on the priest’s face as he begins to read the 3-page long wedding banns / announcements is priceless! It says it all: the wedding season is upon us! Watching young couples approach their big day with all the bustle and excitement really brings back memories of our 4-month long prepar ation for our own wedding day which happened 24 years ago!   Looking back now, so much of what we invested so much time, energy and resources into had little or no relevance soon after the wedding. After all, a wedding is just for a day, a marriage for a lifetime! I remember the day after the wedding, wondering what had to be done with the expensive wedding dress and painstakingly handcrafted flowers. Over the years, I’ve had the chance to step back and take an objective look at our wedding planning decisions and if I happen to step into a time machine that would take me back to 1998, these are the things I would change:   1.    Have my husband (who was the only one of us working the

God first laid this blogpost on my heart in Feb 2021. And since then, there have been many times when I thought about writing it. But last night, God clearly gave me the title and then the content came pouring out in under 20 minutes. I share this to glorify Him who gives me everything I have, including these learnings over close to 20 years of intentional discipleship.   M inistry is anything you do for Jesus with love. In the early years of following Christ, I thought that ministry meant what people did to lead me to Christ: lead a Bible study, worship God with music, listen and counsel people. As the years passed, I also wanted to do that, and I wanted to go really big for Christ. I wanted to do something grand, visible and reach many thousands of souls for Him. But through the last 20 years, God has redirected me consistently: “Whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers/sisters, that you do unto me” . And “whatever you do, do it for the glory of God.” Every time I wanted t

  I am the  Lord  your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery;    you shall have no other gods before me. Exodus 20:2-3 “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’    This is the greatest and first commandment. Matthew 22:38   Anyone who has experienced God’s Love for real, will know well enough to stay away from any idols that deny the Truth that God who created us all and everything that exists, revealed Himself fully to all humankind in the Person of His Son Jesus Christ. Idols that look like idols are easy enough to avoid. I hope you know that Sachin Tendulkar may be called the ‘God of cricket’ but he is no god at all. But I have fallen for the trap myself and witnessed other people falling too, for idols that are really too good to resist! Here’s my list of top 10 idols to beware of!   1.      A romantic partner My first and last boyfriend who later became my first and l