Juggling thoughts

  This morning, my son got up as early as 5Am to confirm if he had school today. I asked him why he was so curious about school. The menu in today’s lunch provided at school was one of his motivations. That makes me think the amazing benefits of nutritious lunch provided at school. Many of us doting parents are very concern about the diets of our children especially for those of us who have fuzzy eater at home. Most of the children leave aside greens on their plates and are picky eaters. My son is no exception in it but when the lunch program got introduced at school, I was so at ease. Undeniably, my worries about my son not eating like the way I let him eat at home or letting food go waste were still hovering my mind. But above everything else, first, I want him to learn adaptability: school is that place where grooming of a child’s personality takes place. Preparing a child to be as flexible as a rubber-band in adapting food habits from early age is the best way of prepar...

We live in a society where there is a high expectation on people that we look up to, thinking and taking them to be someone who should be faultless: just perfect. The pressure is more for those actively involved in church ministries, social works and public leaders and therefore,  many a times we put on mask, a façade of perfection: a perfect relation, a perfect leader and one  having it all packed together a life of no flaws. Yet underneath it all, we might be walking around all broken in soul and spirit, burdened with our failures and struggles and ashamed to show it to the world. I believe it is fine to not be perfect; it is only when we admit our brokenness, our faults and our frailties, that we not only heal, but give courage to others to heal as well. The pebbles we might have in our shoe right now—may be strained relationships, financial hardship, sickness, exhaustion, anxiety, death of a loved one. Pebbles hurt especially when we have to wear it for a ve...