Set up road signs; put up guideposts.Take note of the highway, the road that you take. (Jeremiah 31:21) We often talk poetically and philosophically about the journey of life. This is entirely appropriate. Life is indeed a journey. It is not a soft resting place by a stagnant pool of calm water where we can collapse and rest. Perhaps there are times…
Tag: wisdom
227. The Answer
The whole world demands answers! The questions are too many and too hard. The responses to the bigger issues and so-called answers come fast and furious with confusion and violence in their wake. The leaders contend with overwhelming appeals. They reach out for earthly wisdom, established ideology and unproved snap-answers that are being forced on a confused population…
204. Hole in the soul
Window to the soul, insight into thoughts, a view on circumstances, vision for the future, seeing the deeper things of life, one look of reproach or forgiveness or a stink eye that conveys anger – all the things we do with eyes. Eyes are probably the most important symbolic sensory organ. Other qualities that eyes are commonly associated with,…
202. Step out and step up
The noise can be unbearable. We have resorted to the amazing technology of our time. It gives new impulse to this prolonged pandemic of which the end does not seem so close as we crave. Various stages of a range of regulations persist in many countries. A realistic perspective demands patience, which of course can be defined as endurance…
175. Eye on the prize
Wisdom is one of the most positive words on the planet – no doubt. I want to be wise – period. It is joined by the hip with the word: excellence – a word that stirs my heart and desire to do better. The powerful work of the Holy Spirit keeps us focused in our…
168. Longing for the mystery of magnificence
Today I feel like writing a letter to all of you. I want to share my heart on something that I have not acknowledged to many people. I feel like revealing a part of me that is usually hidden, maybe for a long time even from myself. It was only when I read a piece of…
Pebbles of Perpetuity 