Ask, Share & Receive

The most happiest during the lockdown period at home is none other than our  dachshund- “COFFEE” -and that’s her name 😃!! Prelockdown  she would hates it when master Sr & Jr would leave for work & school. But her joy would know no bounds when they would get back home .   All my life [ until 2019 Aug] i disliked dogs and would not touch one even with a bargepole. How ever this one has stolen my heart . I remember the restrictions that I had imposed concerning her as we got her home . But I am the one who have broken quite a few rules  ☺️ .   Such as .....whilst at the dining table, coffee will come(only to me) and look at me with her puppy eyes!! "Please, please whatever you seem to be having smells utterly butterly yummiliciouss 😋 ... can I but have just one tinnewinny   bite" ..... how I wish I could evade those mesmerising eyes . But her patience, her looks , her gaze, her demeanour, her resilience, her waiting drives me into ...

Last week during the Passion week celebrations, I was kind of confined in bed fighting a bacterial infection that in a way changed my facial appearance. The infection was in the eyes paired with swelling in the face. I failed to recognise myself in the mirror,so why would I blame the IOS App that failed to pick up my Face ID 😂? Everyone of us immaterial of our age and gender love to look good. I am not talking about a bad hair day or days that we look tired, but of the obsession that we all have to look good and I definitely am no exception to that desire ! So more than the discomfort and pain, I felt quite conscious of my countenance specially when I attended all the zoom calls 😉 .   But trust me, certain life lessons teaches us that most situations in our life are beyond our control . The healing in my eyes and face took about 10 days but the prayers and comfort that I received was overwhelming .   I decided to shift the focus from it being " all about me ...

Every married woman desires to be a mother . For those of them who have had tough pregnancies and even found it difficult to conceive, the process would have been so tough and overwhelming.   I have been through my share of hardships and after 7 years into the marriage I finally got the   positive report of being in the family way. . However 4 weeks into the pregnancy I encountered a major problem something not normal to go through when with child. I remember that Sunday evening so well , the doctors were not available but I was rushed to the hospital to see what could be done . They could not run any tests but asked us to come back the following day for a scan . But from the conversations that I overheard from the medical team they said there was a high probability of me having lost the foetus . Those words thoroughly broke and crushed me from within .   That night was really daunting . One of the longest nights of my life . As I lay awake and was w...

When we were out on an errand our gardner who just got back from his leave was waiting outside our home along with a friend of his . He wanted us to reinstate him back to his job. While having a conversation with him , I went to chuck something into the bin placed in our garage just to   find a heap of cigarette stumps and ashes in it. Looked like someone had just thrown it in there. I was a little perturbed as I wanted to know who visited home when we were away ( none of us smoke at home)   I checked with the gardener and his friend and they forthrightly said - oh that can never be us , we saw some delivery guy and maybe he would have dumped it ! I was a little anxious to find out who visited our premises in our absence.   Our landlord fortunately had Cctv cameras installed so I went an hours back in time to see who could have come and it happened to be our gardner’s friend . They seemed to have lied as they were scared just in case I would be mad wit...

I call out to my son - come along food is served - his reply always would be - 5 mins mama. Come its prayer time - 5 mins mama !!! Don’t you have to study - 5 mins mama !! Hey can you come - I need some urgent help - 5 mins mama !!  I felt quite at my wits end . His default answer to anything would be - in 5 mins !  While chatting with him the other day I shared an incident that happened with my nephew many years back . My cousin and his wife were chatting with their next door neighbours when their little boy who was just 5 yrs woke up from his sleep . Not seeing his parents around he started wailing thinking that the rapture had happened and his parents have been taken to heaven. What amazed me was that the little boy believed in rapture 😄 . As many of us still do doubt about it !!  [ Matthew 24:39-42] An article in the gulf new caught my eye ! A techie missed his flight back to India by a few minutes as he slept off in the waiting area post ...

As a student of English literature I loved Wordsworth’s poems and the Shakespearean   Sonnets . One of my favourite’s being -   Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand'ring bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken." Shakespeare is talking of love between two lovers . A love that is steadfast, unshakable and unmeasurable 💜 What does the Bible speak of LOVE   1Corinthians 13:4-7 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.   It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.   Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Wow that’s selfless love ! So ...

I really missed folks back in our home country when we moved places.But now looking back it is amazing to know that God ordains and prepares for His Children well in advance . He had already prepared friends for me in the new neighbourhood and also good friends at church.   When I was new to the place and at my lowest , I used to get calls from my friends asking me out /over for coffee . I used to be so overwhelmed when people would take out time for me . In the current age, time for others is something no one has . And when people take out time- gosh it feels so SPECIAL  💜 !!! Talking about coffee , how do you like your coffee ?? Cold , hot or luke warm ? I have heard of many who like cold coffee with the many different flavours and one is spoilt for choices and many on the other hand love hot coffee !! It is very rare that people like their coffee lukewarm  !! I personally like mine to be piping hot . And if it gets lukewarm I heat it in the microwave over a...