Proudly Presents...

Pride. I take pride in certain things I do, in certain things I have, in certain things that I am.

Are you proud? This feeling makes me feel a little arrogant but a lot more special. When you are proud about something example if you can multiple numbers fast and you are proud of it, you know for sure that you can beat a lot of them in and around you if there was a competition right now. You just KNOW that you can do it. You have confidence in it. This makes you a little arrogant because you compare. Comparing with others and concluding that most of them are less talented than you in this area. But we should never forget that there is someone better and this is what keeps you grounded and keeps you on track, that you have to work a lot more, you could be a lot better.

Have you always been proud of yourself? Have you ever taken pride in someone else? someone dear to you, someone you have inspired, someone you mentored, or even some relationships you have. A pride where arrogance is not involved.

I usually prefer to talk about the heart. So naturally this post is not about how proud you are about yourself,  something related to your head but its about how proud you are about someone else. Do you have someone whom you are proud of?

I know a person from almost 14 yrs. I take pride in that. He is not my best friend nor do we spend a lot of time with each other. This fact makes it more difficult to be good friends after so many years. It needs efforts and sometimes just this trust that no matter how many days you don't talk it will still be great the next time you pick up that phone. I somehow am proud of this because I know most of us don't have friends from our childhood. This makes me special and its my own and hence I take pride.

Similar to this there are a lot more that I am proud of. I take pride in my parents, they are AMAZING. Their way of love or the way they brought us up teaching us to treat each other equal, to be responsible with money, to be responsible about our responsibilities. I also take pride in my friends, some of them are really good at math, some of them are great writers, some of them are cool, some of them are good at sports, some of them have amazing sense of humor, some of them have a lot of patience, some of them can talk well, some of them can sing well, the most important thing that demands my admiration is that all of them have a BEAUTIFUL heart. All these features are not mine but its their own, I know that, but still I take pride in them. May be because I am a part of their life, or they are part of mine.

Sometimes I wonder do you take pride in me? As your sister, as your daughter, as your friend, as you girl friend, as your wife, as anything that I am for you. Would you present me proudly....????

Most important of all, not as a comparison but I want my heavenly Father to say this to me.

Proverbs 31:29 - “Many daughters have done well, But you excel them all.”

Inhumanness in Me

Recent events have been very disturbing, the shooting at a Connecticut school and gang rape in Delhi. World seems to be heading towards more uncivilized and more evil destination than towards a civilized, mature and a better world. Why are such events happening around the world? I was wondering what would make this world a better world. The world where there is a constant progress, a constant growth, a constant betterment. I'm not talking about the economy of a country. I'm talking about 'the person' in people.

On second thoughts what about the person in me? When I see the event objectively I say such events have been happening every day. People get killed everyday, someone or the other is abused everyday. But a shooting in a school or a girl been beaten inhumanly after physically abusing her would disturb me more because I can relate to the victim. I think that girl could have been Me, that school could be where my kid or any kid i know is studying. This reminds me of Joker's dialog from the movie 'Nobody panics when things go according to plan. Even if the plan is horrifying. If tomorrow I tell the press that like a gang banger, will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it’s all, part of the plan. But when I say that one, little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds!'. Is this true? Is a solider at border meant to be shot, is he there to die? is a teenager who is riding fast meant to get killed? Yes he should not ride fast but does that justify my indifference towards his death or make it easy for his parents to deal with the tragedy? If I hear a news tomorrow that a group of soldiers were blown up I'm sure it wont be stuck in my head all day. But if i hear a news of lady killed by her husband say who is from IT it would remain in my head all day questioning how could he do that. I'm not sure if this is the case with all of you but that is how i am affected. Affected to different extent by different events when both result to death. I wonder why? Why is that i don't feel anything when i hear about the soldiers. Am i so insensitive? Am i biased to these events? A Life is a Life isn't it? It should not matter what gender, age, reason for death, a life, a person is no more. If that girl is some one's mom, sister or wife, so is the man at the border some one's husband, son or a friend. Then why is that i don't feel anything towards this man. Why is that I'm inhuman towards him? Why?

Isaiah 1: 17- learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.

Goal

Its 1:13am, a Sunday morning. I just finished watching a video in Youtube.

Messi vs Ronaldinho ● Who Is The Barcelona King? ||HD||

I like watching football and i have started to like the game from recent times. I like the game where i can see a player take the ball through the 2 or 3 opponents (if you see the above video you would understand what i am talking about). Messi plays that way. As i watched this video i was thinking, what makes these 2 players great? Is it their talent or is it their hard work? How do they play so well? Whats going on in their head while they are trying to take a shot? Do they think at all? Is it all adrenaline? I have NO clue. I play, but not like them. So No clue.

But here is what my thought process was while i watched the video. Messi is small. Ronaldinho looks strong.   Both have become successful. Both should have been picked up by some manager for the first time who gave them a big break. Both must have been rejected at some point. May be several times. Both must have sacrificed. Both must have to wake up early morning reach the place to be trained to reach the place where they are today. Even when they have practiced a particular skill a thousand times and they are THE BEST in it, they still work on it every morning. Even when its a routine, even when they are in no mood for it, You just got to do what you got to do. This routine teaches your body to know where the ball is even without looking at it directly. You get few years to play a game that you LOVE, if you want to make it big, you have to give it ALL.

GIVE IT ALL. Practice makes your body or mind to be natural in it. You don't have to think much. All the efforts you put in practice makes you put less effort while you use this skill. You dribble the ball slow at times and sometimes fast, keeping your eyes always on the goal. Dribble the ball, tackle the opponents to get through them. Give your energy, give your heart and soul to make it work. Opponents WILL tackle, push you to your limits. Sometimes you fight back, sometimes you just change the direction and take it forward. Sometimes you pass the ball to your team member who you think can help. Sometimes you WILL lose the ball, but you don't stop running. You just have to get the ball back again from the opponents. When its time for you to strike, you STRIKE. Make the effort count. It might be stopped, but you don't stop striking again. You got to strike it again, and again, and again, and again. until the final whistle is blown.

The point is this, they have seen failures but never lost hope. No matter how the game is, no matter how strong the opponent is, focus is not moved. When they move with the ball probably here is what they do, fight the opponents, change the direction but ever moving towards goal, take that strike and Hope you stroke  right, Hope that its not stopped, hope that it reaches its goal.

I wish I was as dedicated as these guys are, I wish I could give my all in everything I do, I wish I tackle it right, I wish I keeping pressing forward, I wish I strike, and strike it well, I wish it reaches its goal and I wish the final whistle is not blown. Mostly I wish i never lose Hope.

2 peter 1: 5-8 - 'But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.'

LOVE -a blessing

Why do they do that? What is it that they see in that ONE person? I have always wondered about this. Its so difficult to reason it out logically. I think there is no logical reasoning or critical thinking you can do on such matters. This is Love, true Love, unconditional one. They just Love you for no reason. We may not be beautiful to the world but we are the most beautiful one for them, we may not be SMART or COOL or GREAT but they find us to be the smartest and in our little achievements they rejoice the most. We may not be good enough for all the Love but the way we are treated would definitely make us feel special about ourselves.

Have you felt special? Have you seen Love in a person's eyes?

How many have you promised to stay connected? To how many have to said you will be there for them? To how many have you said NO matter what... you will be friends. Have you kept your promises? Have your friends kept theirs?......Its easy to promise in words but very difficult to keep it and it takes conscious effort. When you don't stick together it doesn't mean that your relationship wasn't great, nor does it mean it wasn't fun. Most of the times you don't have a reason why you drift apart from that person. But if there is a person who is still in touch with you and they have put their efforts to make sure to stay connected 'No matter what...' it just means you are too special for them to let go of you. These are the people who Love you no matter how you reciprocate. The image of you in their head would never change, and these are the ones who would think of you, care for you, worry about you and love you forever. These are the ones who would always prioritize you.  These are the ones who want to spend time with you. They would go an extra mile to just spend time that 1 extra minute with you just you. These are the ones who never take you for granted. These i call 'FRIENDS'.. the best and the ultimate ones.

This Love is simple and pure. This brings peace. A mother can show such Love so can a Father, sometimes its friends and if you are lucky enough that person would be your partner. But we should never miss out on such people, never ignore them, even when we cannot Love them back as much as they Love us the least we can do is appreciate it.

Such Love isn't easy and its not natural to everyone. Most us love people around us with conditions. If we all are able to LOVE one person unconditionally we should call ourselves blessed. Its a blessing to know the feeling of being selfless. I'm still trying my best to be able to be selfless. Its a tough task. The purpose of this life is to LOVE. A greater Love God showed us and asked us to spread this to people around us. This is the only thing we need to do in life -to be selfless in Love- to all. This is the simplest thing God expects from us and the toughest thing to do as humans.


Jeremiah 31:3 says - 'I have loved you with an everlasting Love'.

I wish each one of you to be blessed to be a blessing. Spread LOVE.

My Prayer

This is a prayer i had written long long back. It gives me a sense of purpose and tells me what are the important things in life - God, love, friends and family.


Praise you LORD!

I want to see you smile from the things I do
I want to create a world around me full of you
I want to take my every step with you
knowing that you are holding my hand and taking me home.

Oh LORD! I can't do it alone
I need you and your spirit to wrap me in your love,
to fill me with your strength, to renew my spirit everyday.
That I would walk in faith, that i would do my part to make
this world ready for your return.
Let my family and friends not be forgotten, o GOD!
Strengthen me to bring them along.

Help me fulfill my purpose
Help me to make you smile
Help me to spread your love
Help me to love you more and more.
My Jesus! Thank you! for your love endures forever.

Everyday of my Life I will love you more.

Coherence

Friend: 'Good Coherence'.

Me: Ah?

Coherence means properly ordered. My vocabulary sucks big time. Each time a friend uses one such word i ask them back the meaning of it and that's how i now know the meaning of word coherence. I'm sure i will forget this and soon go 'ah?' next time someone uses it. Well that's not my point here today.

Good Coherence was the review of my friend on my previous blogs. Its been a long time since i even remembered this blog and today it happens to come before my eyes in a really weird situation. When i read through my blog again i felt ‘NICE’ and sometimes its 'NICE' to feel just ‘NICE’. So decided to put some thoughts on this one.

Now i want to go back to Coherence and if i do so would the review still hold good? Let me know Mr.Reviewer.

When i learnt that my previous blogs was coherent i was glad. I'm not a very disciplined person. So keeping things in order is not a habit nor does it come naturally to me. Recently when i came back to Galway I decided to set my cloths in order. And i did. Each time i open those doors and find it in order, i feel proud of it. Everything is in place for more than a week now and hope it continues. Trust me, this is something I'm really proud of. Back home I would have ruined it in a week and stated 'Chaos leads to Order'. You can google for 'Chaos leads to..' and find the first predictive search that comes up. But this time I'm trying my best to keep it in order. I'm trying to be '27' i guess. This time i want to be disciplined, this time i want to take efforts, this time i want to be conscious of it, this time I WILL DO IT and this time few verses are my inspiration.

Verses

1 Corinthians 14: 33 – For God is not a God of disorder but of peace.

and the conclusion of that chapter

1 Corinthians 14:40 - Let all things be done decently and in order.

Amen to that one. Wish to keep it Coherent, 1 rack at a time :)

Trusting and Obeying God

Verse for the day:
'Many are the woes of the wicked, but the LORD's unfailing surrounds the man who trusts in him.' - Psalm32:10

'Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.'

- Psalm 20:7

Thoughts

God:He is a Creator of everything in existence. He is our father.He is the one who has created the time. he is the one who has made the day and night, He is the one who spoke the word and everything came into existence, he is the one who planned you even before you were conceived. He thought about you when he planned creation, he is thinking about you all the time,He knows every thought that has crossed your mind, he knows every desire that you have deep in your heart, he know your deepest fear that haunt you. He know the Bar code for each and every hair on your body without his permission nothing grows and nothing withers. He is the one who knows the solution to every problem even before you face the problem. He knows us better than we ourselves do. Does he not know what is good for us. What is best for us. we only know the things that has happened or the things that are happening to us. we know only past and the present, But he our Father knows the Past, the Present and the Future. He knows from everlasting to everlasting.He knows everything.

This very god who is master of all, king of all, Father of all, God of all sent his only son just to show his love for You. and even today he says the same thing 'Trust me I'm Your Father', 'Give me your burden i will carry it for you', 'Love me i will take away all your pain', 'Entrust your everything to me and Sit back and relax i will show how beautiful life can be'.
All we need to do is to trust god and obey his commandments, Love him, Surrender everything and give him the controls for a Blessed and a Victorious life.

Are you ready to do it?