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A leader presents solutions not problems…

A precious lesson learnt today from my apostle. I sat listening as he talked to a few leaders and it was a good lesson learnt for the future.
I thought it was a good lesson to share with everyone.

While the world slept India awoke...

The title above is a paraphrase of what one of our leaders spoke as India was declared independent this very day almost 60 years ago, 15th August.
My country was under the imperial slavery of Britain for more than a hundred years. It took a self mobilized peoples movement that at last forced the British to go back to their land. They did go, but not without leaving behind a country, literally sucked dry of its expensive resources and strong identity that it had possessed for centuries until they arrived. India has been making efforts to get back to the same ideal for years now and its making progress. There is a lot to learn, lot to improve but…today I pray to God for my country that he may bless India and that His dramatic, over powering Kingdom influence transforms the very fabric of my nation to what he had purposed it to be originally.

I am alive....

Yes, I do realise I havent posted since ages but honestly, I am trying to become regular again.
By the time, I do get a sensible post ready for you, just to let you know what I am doing.
Right now, I am trying to read two books, one more interesting than the other, Why I am not a Hindu by Kancha Ilaiah and Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy. And I got to read one of my favourites, Tortured For Christ by Richard Wurmbrand again.
I will definitely post something in time. By that time you can browse on wiser blogs like Chris Hamer-hodges' and Cameron Fraser's and ofcourse the list continues...who post loads everyday but dont forget to drop in on mine to check....

The defiance of a Godly woman...

Recently, in the midst of piles of books [I am trying to organize our library], I came across one of the earlier publications of ‘Tortured For Christ’ by Richard Wurmbrand.
In the first chapter of the book, Wurmbrand talks of the first congress that the Communists convened of all the Christian bodies in the Romanian Parliament Building, around four thousand priests and pastors, after they came to power.
All the Christians praised the Communists, equating Christianity and Communism and highlighting them as fundamentally being the same. At this juncture, Wurmbrand states, I quote from the book,

My wife and I were present at this congress. My wife sat near me and told me; “Richard, stand up and wash away this shame from the face of Christ! They are spitting in His face.” I said to my wife, “If I do so, you lose your husband.” She said, “I don’t wish to have a coward as a husband.”

Even now as I read the words of this Godly woman, my being is overwhelmed with the strength of her conviction and strenuous faith.
What a privilege that I am part of the legacy left behind by such a woman!
May it be that I am worthy enough to take this legacy to its next level!

What do you think??

When we contemplate ruins, we contemplate our own future. To statesmen, ruins predict the fall of Empires and to philosophers the futility of mortal man’s aspirations. To a poet, the decay of a monument represents the dissolution of the individual ego in the flow of Time; to a painter or architect, the fragments of a stupendous antiquity call into question the purpose of their art. Why struggle with a brush or chisel to create the beauty of wholeness when far greater works have been destroyed by Time?

- Christophet Woodward, In Ruins, Vintage 2002.