Blessing in disguise

From today there will be no van service for my kids. This means I will have to bring them back from school every day. The van driver has shown inconvenience to bring back Googaa from school in the afternoon. So I have decided to bring them both from school in the afternoon; Golu will go to leave each morning.

The moment I heard this news, I took this with full positivity – for me, this is nothing but a blessing in disguise and allows me to come one more step closer to my daughters. Yet another dream of mine – of getting them back from school – is getting fulfilled. Though I will have to make two trips in the heat of the sun, somehow I am very happy about it. I am extremely delighted though I will have problem on the days I will have to go to office and also during exhibition times but I am sure the Lord will plan out something equally good. I am not at all worried like earlier…

Then yesterday I read this somewhere: (Psalms 27-29)

“I have asked the Lord for one thing –
this is what I desire!
I want to live in the Lord’s house all the days of my life,
so I can gaze at the splendor of the Lord”

I just love these words. It just expresses my own desire. How well the psalmist has described something which I could never think of but was always there in my mind.

Halleluia…

Proud of my photography...

That’s the way I like it…

Everything is back to normal from today onwards. Why? Because, from today, my kids’ new academic year has begun and I am so very glad about it! Glad, because they are in higher class now (Googaa, seventh standard) and Goldie (fourth standard). Oh…I feel so happy!!! And I am also happy because from now on everything will be on track – right from opening my eyes at 5 o’clock in the morning till the time I go back to sleep at 10 pm – everything will be on time. Hopefully, everything will be punctuality personified, because that’s the way I like it…

I am all the more happy because today I blogged and also had my green tea after what seems an eternity – wish everyday was a school day……!!!

4th March – fourteen years and still counting

4th March, 2013, was a very special day for us as Golu and I celebrated fourteen years of our togetherness. But as the day was extremely hectic I couldn’t blog on our fourteen years of togetherness on that day. Whatever it is, one thing is for sure – we have worked really hard to make a home. I am really grateful for each day, and for the fourteen years of togetherness. It has been an extraordinary, happy and harried togetherness.

Isn’t it amazing? Just imagine. Together with each other for the last fourteen years – what a wonderful achievement in this world where every second family is broken! I personally know of so many families who have loads of money but broken from within. So it’s time to look back at the fourteen years of togetherness.

It has been a season of togetherness – yippee!!! We are in our fourteenth year of togetherness. Fourteen years of tolerating each other.

“Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also” – is all I found in the Bible on fourteen years.

Fr George Karamvely

Last week, from Sunday, March 10 to Friday, March 15, we had the third mission/retreat in Hindi for the Lenten season in our church. I couldn’t attend the first two days but was regular from Tuesday onwards. The Hindi mission began in the evening at 7:30 to 9:30pm with preaching, adoration and healing service. This mission was preached by Fr. George Karamvely from New Delhi and team. Fr. George was the director of Faridabad Divine retreat centre, a well known preacher in Hindi.

Fr. George used to preach for all the masses in Hindi so I have become quite accustomed to Hindi Eucharistic celebrations. This Hindi mission has really, really been very anointing for me. But sadly, I couldn’t purchase any of the books by Fr. George.

Yesterday at Gorai beach...

Its been a long time...

...since my last post. Nowadays life is so very busy because of the kids being at home for their summer holidays that I just don't get the time and few peaceful moments for myself to compose any blog posts. Blog posts are the last things on my list of priorities.

I am writing this post from my mobile. Today I don't have any Sunday evening commitments. I am sitting at home doing nothing. It is one of those dull Sunday evenings like in the past. I really hate this. It makes me unhappy and insane. So this post.