Who are you really?I’m sure the thought would have crossed your mind at some point in your life.What defines the real you- your career ? Your looks?  Your personality? Your charisma? The good works you’ve done? The sacrifices you’ve made?While many of the above things do describe or characterize us in many ways, is that...

He loved me first, hence I love.

Even in the wilderness, He makes you thrive...

" So do you get to have conversations with passengers over these tracts?" I asked him about the tracts and multilingual handouts he'd put up at the back of his driver's seat. " Yes ma'am, many people do; In fact, I learnt to drive a rickshaw so I could get this opportunity to share the...

It's quite unnerving to begin something again that you put a pause on more than a year ago. That's me as I type down these reflections.Life changed forever in many ways since the last blog post in this space, and it's taken me months of hesitating, procrastinating and wondering as to how my experiences could...

Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere. Ralph Waldo Emerson

“..yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Saviour” ( Habakkuk 3:18) Prerounds. The early morning rush to get everything straight before the consultants came was on. I took my exam sheet and walked into room number 5, to a very peaceful looking mother. As we got talking about...

As he walked out of the hospital into the sun with his frail nine year old son, he shook his head in disbelief. What a roller coaster of a month that was! Who would've thought when they boarded the flight to India for a vacation, that their lives were going to be changed forever! One...

“I just follow God's lead. One step, one day and one opportunity at a time. The hardest part is not becoming distracted.” ― Carlos Wallace

When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,The moon and the stars, which You have set in place; What is man that You think of him,And a son of man that You are concerned about him? (Psalm 8:3-4,NASB) "Not writing a blog for New Year's huh?" the sister (to whom I also owe...

“If Christmas is just a nice legend, in a sense you are on your own. But if Christmas is true, then you can be saved by grace.” —Timothy Keller

"How very little can be done under the spirit of fear." Florence Nightingale

The thing about being a medico is that more often than not, your timeline revolves around some exam or the other. You're either preparing for one or you're awaiting the results of one you've just given. I'm writing from a place of waiting on what verdict the national board is going to pass on the...

“Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. By these tendrils we clasp it and climb thitherward. And why do we think that we are separated from them? We never half knew them, nor in this world could.” — Henry Ward Beecher

The pandemic rages on, coming and going in waves...nobody knows for how long or how many more waves we're yet to see. When you say COVID 19 , among the many things that became a new normal, the prominent image that comes to mind is someone in a PPE suit- goggles and hood and plastic...

Organic Malgova mangoes. They’re tricky. Can’t really say when they’ll ripen because nothing much changes in their appearance on the outside. They’re just the same strong green. Unless you touch/ smell them one fine morning and then suddenly realize it’s time.And then after all the waiting, you cut one. Then there’s that huge seed. Ever...

"Fling wide the gates.." She pushed those words to the back of her mind." Open the ancient doors,..." Nooo, she didn't want to hear them, "....and let the king of Glory in." Ahhh. The soft still voice was persistent. It had been a couple of frustrating days. She was beyond irritated and angry. Her arched...

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining - they just shine. Dwight L. Moody

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” C.S Lewis

The Freefall

I like structure. I'm the kind of person who would ideally like to be well informed before I take a decision, or well briefed/read before I approach a problem. I'm pretty sure most of us out there would identify with that. I mean who wouldn't like a blueprint of what lies ahead right? Like a...

...and hope, does not disappoint us.

In God's abundant love, He gave.... His only begotten Son. His most precious. With that same love living inside of you and me, what can we give this season?

Gracias!!

Is there a thing as being thankful enough?

Breathe…

"Happily hypoxic. Severely myopic." Do those words describe us these days?

Bonsai is safe. Very comfortable. Pretty. Yet… way too small... To make a difference.

Feeling broken, abandoned, beyond redemption? Well He doesn't think so. You're beautiful in His eyes!!

"Wherever this road takes us Lord even if it's just us I surrender, Lord, it's yes.."

When the waves and breakers come sweeping over you, take a knee, not in protest, but in absolute surrender.

"All I had to offer Him was brokenness and strife But he made something beautiful of my life"

"When God wants to drill a man, thrill a man and skill a man, watch His methods, Watch His ways!"

Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight, At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more, When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death, And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.

I'm like what's to dream of and what's to hope in What's to die for and live to no end

" I lift up mine eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of Heaven and Earth.( Ps 121:1)" She stood on the terrace, lifting up her hands to the hills with tears flowing down her face and the early southwest winds blowing through her...

Extraordinary times. Extraordinary circumstances. Shutting down of economies, of countries, of offices, of railways and roadways, of homes and doors and gates. The highlight of the same being the indefinite nature of it. All because we hope to overcome a certain power that causes disease, that is invisible to the naked eye. Oh yes, we're...

I sat at the railway station , waiting for the already delayed train that was running by the IST( Indian Stretchable Time, as most of us know it). The regular buzz of activity at the station- relatives, not-so-related-ives, vendors, porters, children, mothers, fathers , and the rest of a tiny bit of India's booming population...

The falling apart of what was once a great secular nation. The demise of a beloved Sultan. A world lingering on the brink of another world war. The breakdown of many economies. Raging forest fires. Darkness. Violence. Insecurity. And the dawn of another decade. These events have heralded in the new year and the beginning...

The attitude of a baby in the mother's womb. Every joint bent and flexed to remain comfortably within the confines of the womb. You would've come across the term sometime.( If not, feel free to Google or ask Alexa or Siri or the girl next door). Anyways, this is not a medical class I promise....

My only memory of even trying to swim was at six years of age, when my dad decided to teach me to swim. So we packed our bags with a full change of clothes and the entire family went off to spend an evening at the seaside and my dad started off with the instructions....

"Akka, are the wristbands ready?", asked one small eager voice, running up to me. I looked at her with a sorry smile, saying ," No da, I'll give them soon." "Okayyy". she says. " I wanna give you a really nice one", I said...that's why the delay- I explain. She considered it for some time,...

I know you're probably uprolling your eyes at the title. 'Oh please'- you must be saying, 'It's so cliche.' Yeah, I agree, but since you're here, do endure to the end of this. Let me introduce another term to you - Dysfunctional- a word most of us are familiar with- and probably identify with. Atleast...