Monday 28 July 2008

Water-Wine-Blood

The gospels always have a spirit of movement.

From water to the Wine.
From Wine to Blood


It is always a movement towards more density and profoundness.
Our Spirituality is an invitaiton to growth...

“Deeper, deeper, tho it cost hard trials, 
deeper let me go! Rooted in the holy love of Jesus, Let me fruitful grow.” 
(Verse 3 of C. P. Jones’s hymn, Deeper, Deeper.)
 

The light of the world?

We waste lots of our energy formulating hugh abstract solutions for little concrete problems.
We often take Jesus and his Gospel to be so abstract.
What does it mean to be the light of the world?

We oftern fail this grace of light, by stressing more on the word world
But why we fail to see the our world, within the one who sits next to us.

The Problems

It is important how we define particular situations as the problems.When there is a situatin that is demanding, is it obligatory to name it as a problem? No such rules are out there but we behave as if they exist.

A crying child can be seen as a problem and as an embaressment, or it can also be seen as an invitation for a careful response and attention.

It is important how i define people and situations around me.

Thursday 24 July 2008

all those little things of love...

If God is love...how can we experience him?
it has been a question asked over and over again.
It is not that it is never answerd...
but that each one needs to be asnwered personally.
Like many of the answers in the world,
this answer also is a consolation and an assurance.

After long and tiring attempts,
we reach the same conclusions which the others have already affirmed.
Love is not a single big thing...it is a multitude of little things.
like the same way...
Experience of god may not always come in a single instalement...
it can be the greatest event in our lives,
built up by many little encounters and surprises.
We have a God of encounter and surprises.....

Wednesday 23 July 2008

Do not cling to me.....

i saw an interesting topic at Yahoo answers on John 20:17.
Actually i was about to post on the same topic.

After the resurrection Jesus said to mary Magdalene: Do not cling to me.
what does it mean?

For me it signifies a lot.
It should have been an important moment in her discipleship.
A discipleship of marurity.
Jesus prepares her for a life of witness, and not of dependence.
Her first encounter with Jesus, turns her towards Jesus himself.
And this encounter prepares here for a life of witness and faith.

also...it is a lesson that teaches us about the growth relationships

replacing the past....the hugh parther way

We can't change the past,
but we can replace it.

God was there when it happened,
and that is the only past i have.

To begin healing the past and defusing the future, merely say,

The past is God with me.
The presentis God with me.
The future is God with me.
It is always the same

Did you remember today...

God is all pre-occupied about you.
Have you remembered God today?


We have many personal-hells around us.
Do not ever try to turn them into heavens altogether.
first, try to turn them into the earth.
then, if it interests you, you can turn them into heavens.
but i am sure, you will be satisfied with the earth around us....

Inspirational Cards

"The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it." Edward R. Murrow
"When all other means of communication fail, try words." Author Unknown
"The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them." Stephen King
"It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writing, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it." William Bernbach
"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel." Carl W. Buechner

Monday 14 July 2008

The way we divide our world.

We are a curious lot.
we have almost all the insolvable problems of our world.
how can we divide our world?

with not much delibration we divide it into those whom we love and those whom we do not.
well..then how about those who love us, and whom we fail to in return.

thats why ,we are forced to think about the ways in which i fashion our world.
do we intergrate or disintegrate it.

Friday 11 July 2008

Letz talk space

we often talk about space
we love cars with more space
we look for the appartments with more space
we demand more space in even our intimate relationships
we have this space-talk always in one or other forms...

Do i give enough space for MYSELF...