Juggling thoughts

We use the phrase “in the meantime” while waiting for something.  When we’re in the waiting room, the “meantime,” waiting for our answers or our miracle, it’s often pretty mean, isn’t it?  So, what do we do in the meantime? How do we keep our faith and trust that God is working when we can’t see it? Everyday we deal tons of what-ifs? Entertaining the what-ifs in life is the first step to being overtaken with worry. Worry is taking responsibility for things we were never intended to handle.  Worry says that we can handle it when many times we simply cannot.  Are you worried that you worry too much? You don't defeat worry by worrying about it.  You defeat worry by redirecting your concerns to Someone who can actually do something about your situation.  It does not mean that you do not take responsibility for the things you are supposed to handle; it just means that you know when you stop and God begins. All of the pain we ar...

We know but not all feel what it takes to be a Woman. To be a Woman and to grow and evolve  is not all easy. We were always taught, almost bombarded, with ideals of what we should be at every age in our lives: This is what you should be at sixteen, This is what you should wear at age twenty, That is how you must act like at age twenty-five. But amidst all these voices. I believe there is no greater comfort and assurance than a woman who believes in Her Ability. No greater success that these things for a woman to be, at any age! Whether you are six or sixteen ,nineteen or ninety! It is always wonderful to be Courageous and Brave. It is always fashionable to have GRACE. It is always glamorous to have Self-respect  , and it is always important to own a delectable perfume of Confidence . Yes, wearing a beautiful perfume both on the outside and inside. Being a Woman is having a believing heart with courage to make the best use of what has been given to you by God. And for any worth...

Faith is where we find ourselves after we are dedicated to exercising baby faith step by step. But the truth is, most of us who wants to be perfectly great, don’t want to do anything on a small scale. We often want Moses- parting-the- Red-sea types of results, but do not want to see through ourselves where and what we lack. We only want to be safe on a giant ark in the middle of a flood but do not want splinters from sanding down the wooden planks needed to build it. Than I thought of Noah, for him, cutting down the first tree to build the ark as told by God was the smallest and the first measure of “Faith” and a huge amount of humility that nobody saw except him and God. For us, baby faith might mean surrendering our weakness of being too prideful of our own ability at times.  It might even be that morning prayer claiming peace and protection in Christ and the unexplainable serenity of the day. Or it might simply mean dropping in a furniture store and picking a new design of ...

  Christmas comes every year, but the true message of Love, Peace, Charity and Kindness gets lost and hidden in the glamour of seasonal materialisms. It’s no wonder we have very little time to think what meaning and changes it have brought about in our life. I love it when people take time to buy gifts in which they have put some thought behind because such gifts remind me of the greatest gift of God. We have immense expectations of Christmas, with pictures of children playing, church choirs singing, smiling faces and people happily getting along with the season of joy.  But of times, it is not that of the outlook; of what it is suppose to be, as the song says, “the wonderful time of the year”.  Maybe not for all but for many, it may be a very difficult phase because something might have inflicted the Joy: maybe sickness, or death, or loneliness, or spiritual struggles. We look to Christmas season to be a perfect time of peace, harmony and joy. But the first Christmas nev...

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...

 As I sit to write about my mother. It take me to the valley of memories echoing with reminders of life’s values she taught me. Of the many role she played in my life, I am deeply inspired by her role as a Teacher: professionally as well as being a mother-teacher at home. Ayo,  your words still resonate in me even today. I grew up seeing you transforming life of your students, and the sense of satisfaction and achievement that lit up your face when your students still calls you up to say ‘hi’ wherever they meet you. I hear them say ‘you were their best teacher’, I feel as much gratified as they are to be the daughter of the world’s best teacher. You always have had a subtle way of teaching me from my bad handwriting to how to deal with my mean friends. You have always being the mom who would be friends with my school teachers: coming out of the P-T meet with more information about their life as a teacher than my academic grades. You made me appreciate what it means to be an ed...

"The doctor wants his child to be a doctor, so do engineers, scientists, officers and bankers. The businessman too wants his child to succeed his empire. The pastor wants his child to walk in his footprints so are the musicians.   But a teacher also wants his child to become one of them, as well." quoted the Principal on a graduation day. Among guests sitting around the dinner table discussing Life, a CEO of a giant company came up with the explanation about problems in Education. In his argument, he asserted, "What is a child going to learn from someone who decided his best choice in life as a mere Teacher? He questioned one teacher, "Be honest. What do you profitably make being just a Teacher?" Then the teacher stood and replied, "You want to know what I make?" Well, I make children sit through 40 minutes of class time when parents can’t make them sit without phones, games, computers and IPads for a couple of minutes. I make children wonder i...