There is no problem too Big GOD cannot solve it!!!

Hi folks...Today I've got to share something which touched my heart very very muchhhhhhh.......which kindled all of my heart, mind and soul completely.... and am also sure that if you're a person who's going through extreme depression and frustration right now, you will surely be consoled and comforted once you finished reading this post of mine.....

Hope you'd have watched the video which is above as the whole matter that I'm gonna say is related to the same.

It was a couple of months back that this happening took place. 

On July 24th, 2011 (it was my mamma's birthday actually), Sunday........So I was about to go to church in the morning with a very heavy, burdened and stressed heart...unable to share my sorrow and grief with anybody else......and at the same time carrying a fake plastic smile on my face completely for the sake of my parents..... and I'm telling you...TRULY...nobody else knows how much anguished I was, expect me and the Almighty!

The church service began and of course, I wasn't able to even sing songs during the worship session. I felt that my distress and mental agony were entirely coating my throat restricting me from singing praises to my CREATOR. So, as a whole, even if I think now of how my condition was, I was simply just a living being who's a closed stack of unexposed and unexpressed worriesssssssssssssss!

And then the time of sermon came when the pastor gave a start by mentioning the title of the message as "REST FOR THE STRESSED!" On hearing the title, I was filled with sudden wonder as I felt that it was exactly suiting my status quo. With the key verses of Matthew 11:28-30 from the Bible, it was such a wonderful message which was soothing and consoling that I was just thinking "How faithful my God is! He has given exactly the word I should hear" feeling that God is straightaway speaking to me. 

And the moment which touched me exactly was when the Pastor concluded his message and started singing this song in a very comforting and reassuring tone which turned me soooo emotional. When I heard the lines 

"If HE carried the weight of the world upon His shoulders

I know my sister that HE (Lord) will carry you"

I was all tears...Yes....my grief-stricken heart wasn't able to control itself after listening to these lyrics. But then I became clear that there is a living God who's there to take care of me and all my burdens and I no need to worry anymore. 

So, my dear friends, whoever is reading this, am assuring you..........Whatever you're going through right now, its just temporary for sure! "THIS TOO SHALL PASS AWAY" Just always trust that when you cast all your burdens upon Him, you can freely rest in peace and joy because its He who created you and gave you life with a purpose and plan which will get executed beautifully once you handle everything over to him.

God Bless You! :-)

Liking the 'Like' button in facebook :-) :P

        As we all know, its very evident from the high degree of the usage of social networking sites like Facebook, twitter, etc that we are living in the age of social media (which has both pros and cons of its own). Whatever be its disadvantages, still people from the age of tens to sixties are crazy about using social networking. I even know an eight-year old relative of mine who has an fb account, tat too which is active enough in usage! And amongst all these kinds of social media sites, Facebook is the topmost ranked and used site by people all over the globe.....

               
And you know, am also a very very energetic, dynamic and occupied user of all these sites :D But this Facebook is the one which I love the most than all the others because of one cracking feature....which is none other than the 'LIKE' button in Facebook! Yes...this is an amazing attribute of fb which has made it so popular sweeping it across the world. With a simple and compact 'like' button, we all have fallen in love with Facebook, I suppose ;-)! Rather than saying all others, I'd say that I personally have an unique affinity towards the 'like' in fb....Even though it may seem so naive and silly, there's a lot more good things to say about this like button.

       Starting from the liking of statuses, posts, photos, links, pages, etc etc.........the list goes on and on that even without our knowledge, we come to know how many things we like in this world. There are lot more things that we cherish and admire on this universe than we dislike, murmur or hate. Just imagine all these without a 'like' button.....we would have just seen and gone away...But, this 'like' button gives us a realization about our admiring capacity as well giving some joy for another person by letting them know that we like their photo or post or whatever petty they have it in their profile.You know just when I click the notifications tab and find a msg like " so and so likes you photo", "x likes your post", it would be like a one-second flash of bliss as if I've done something great and achieved! Yes, truly, this magical button has a psychological impact on us, I guess!

                                               

                   Its after using this 'like' button in Facebook is that I started to realize how many things are there in this world to admire, glorify and when there are so many things that are good to see and appreciate, why do we always stick to the negative ones and unwanted ones? Doesn't this seem to be a little sensible? However, I like the 'like' in Facebook...Wat abt uuuu????? :-) :-) (My height of liking for the like : Even I have a 'like' button in my blog, if you liked my blog, please 'like' it :P)

Photography - An initiator of nostalgia that makes differences within a second.....

                     
                                                           Today I've come up to share something which stroke in my mind just in a flash of a second. AW..yeah...the word 'flash' tells all about it....its none other than the magical wand 'camera' which, by its instant flash captures anything which is focused. I have a huge collection of all my pictures right from my babyhood days till to-date which, when sometimes viewed, initiates a lot of reactions and emotions within my inner self.
                      Now i remember a quote which i read somewhere : "A photo is something which never changes forever even though the people in it change". This quote made me go into a deep thought....Ain't this sooo true? Even I too, sometimes when i look through the old snaps feel how things have changed so much, life changes, the people's changes, changes in our physical appearances, that this and so much more....just within a single glance of a picture. To say it more aptly, everything, both internal as well as external attributes of the elements in the pictures would have changed...tats wat i would say!
                    This photography is the only thing which makes us go into a state of 'nostalgia' within no time. I personally love this amazing constituent which stimulates our nostalgic feeling to a very great extent. Its the only record or proof of certain things that happened in our lives, which we can't get back but can go into that particular scenario and feel it just with a gaze on the picture. It can even refresh our feelings once we have a look at certain albums because even if we hold some grudges on certain persons, when taking a view of the picture in which how close we were to that same person, it will completely erase the grievance that we had on that person just at that instant itself. (this is my personal experience). So, isn't photography such a beautiful thing which can soothe our minds and rejuvenate our souls?
                      So, I wrote this post just to say that i really love capturing pictures and keeping it safe because it is the only entity that can bring our cherished, lost and yearning memories very close to our mind and makes us realize the truth that "CHANGE IS THE ONLY THING THAT NEVER CHANGES!"

Has travelling become my passion nowadays???

                                  Its a long time back since I blogged because of my tight schedule in professional as well as personal affairs. Hmm...well, it is this Sunday night that i've got a lil' bit of time to write something about my recent feeling of an instinctive zest towards traveling. 

Basically, I was a girl who merely hates traveling like anything right from my childhood days, especially, what i mean is the long journey travels by bus, train, plane, etc. But at the same time i was also a cutie pie who always had an invisible bond with the kind of traveling for a short period of time by my car and bike with my dada, mama and bro. I just loved those shopping driving and taking rounds within the boundary of my town :-) (tat was my maximum limit for traveling).

Whenever I was encountered with a situation that I had to travel a long way via bus or car or train or whatever mode of transport may be, i would turn out my face to such a negative reaction and start traveling with all the hatred in mind. Accordingly, for the whole journey i would be sleeping or would be prone to travel sickness like vomiting, headache, etc etc...Oh...Finally, it would be my parent's fate to face a hell lot of troubles b'coz of me for the whole journey. As a whole, to describe my traveling experience in a few simple words, it would be like an 'indescribable cruise to another world' (for both me and the ppl around me :-))

 Poor me, who was lyk tis since from my birth, fate turned my direction of life towards all the things which i hate the most. Yes...one of those is the frequent traveling experiences that I had to encounter in my life since the last couple of years. To be very frank, at the starting, I really went through tough times while traveling by plane or bus or train or car to distant places. But as its generally said that anything will become used to you when you keep on going with it, the same had happened to me too, I guess!!! All those traveling experiences has now really stimulated an ardent interest towards traveling for me now. 

The same long travels which I used to hate previously has now become a great opportunity of many positive matters for me. Be it the formalities of air travels such as getting into the airport greeted by the airport staffs, the check-in, baggage procedures encountering pleasant customer service people, then the paramount hospitality inside the aircraft by charming guys and gals....or the train journey which incorporates the wonderful sight-seeing scenario of nature or the meeting of ppl whom we have never even met before in our life.... or the bus journey where you can freely watch a movie...or a long drive in the car chit-chatting with your beloved ones.... i've realized that all these spicy things of traveling really add good experiences in our lives. 

The preparations for travel is what makes the journey more interesting. As soon as we start packing our Baggies, the spirit of the travel rises in as we take all the important things such as dresses, camera, coolers, passport and all other necessary things for the travel. I was a person who used to take two or three days for packing alone before two years, but now, to me and my family's surprise, I'll just take a packing time of maximum two hours before the travel. What a drastic change! How fate has changed me and my lifestyle!! Really amazing, rite? 

You know wats the best thing i like about and enjoy about traveling...... According to me, from my experience, the traveling time is a time when you can relax and contemplate about different thoughts that are going into your mind and you can even drive into intellectual decisions for which you weren't able to get answer for a long time. Its an awesome duration of time undisturbed by others while enjoying the beautiful aspects of Mother Nature. What i usually do now is just insert my head phones into my ears listening to ma favorite pleasant songs while at the same time praying or cherishing any memories or even planning and thinking about any crucial matters. Hmmm....tats how a girl who was having phobia towards traveling got transformed into a fresh person who really relishes the experience of travelling! :-)

Now i've started to wonder whether i've developed a passion towards travel without my knowledge....just instinctively.....:-)

How to Live as a Christian - PART 5

                               Greetings to you all in the sweet name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! So, this is going to be my final post regarding our current topic of how to lead a true Christian life. In this post, we're gonna have an insight into the valuable spiritual advices given in Chapter 5 of the book of James.

A WARNING TO THE RICH (James 5:1-6)

                              All these six verses at the start of this chapter is for the rich people who have been so rude and impolite to their workers that they are warned severely in a strong manner. This passage seems to be as an alarming sign for the elites who have been disloyal before God's eyes leading a life being cruel and inhumane towards their laborers.Its clearly said that its difficult for them to inherit God's kingdom.

BE PATIENT (James 5:7-11)

                           Patience....This is one of the hardest traits tat we can can ever hold on to...isn't it? But...the word of God clearly declares to be patient until the Lord comes again. In this passage, James had said that we should be like a farmer who plants his crop and waits for the rains in patience. Not even at any point in our life should we ever give up....Never ever lose hope and give up in life! Moreover, its insisted not to judge or complain against each other since we'll be judged guilty because of that. The tenth verse of this chapter asks us to follow the examples of the many prophets of God who remained patient amidst all suffering and afflictions that they underwent in their lives. They were happy at the end only because they didn't give up at their initial stages in life. Another best example is Job's life who was rewarded with abundant blessings for his patience. After all, our God is full of mercy and kindness. So, brothers and sisters, let us all try to be patient when we're undergoing difficult times in our life, putting all our hopes on the Almighty alone. 

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY (James 5:12)

                          In this single verse, there is a great truth that James had brought us...a fault which we always commit in our life. We are always used to make oaths or promises in the name of our parents, heaven, earth or God just for the purpose of proving our truthfulness. Don't we? But, that's a big blunder done in front of God's eyes, my frnzz.....Yes, when you mean something which is true to your conscience, just say 'yes' or otherwise, declare it with a 'no'. But not to make oaths or promises in the name of somebody or something else.  

THE POWER OF PRAYER (James 5:13-18)

                         Pray.... pray... and pray.....for everything and in all times.... without getting tired of it or stopping. This is the gist of this passage, because prayer can do wonders in your life, that nobody else or nothing else can do. If you have troubles, pray; If you are happy, sing praises (James 5:13); If you are sick, pray.....since God will surely heal you; And if you have sins, they'll be forgiven too. When you pray with surplus belief and hope, great things will happen. Prophet Elijah was such a person who prayed earnestly and his wishes were granted (James 5:17,18). Rather than just hearing it, you yourself can test it and experience what happens in your life :-)

SAVING A SOUL (James 5:19,20)

                         Finally, the last advice given for us to lead a worthy Christian life is to save souls who are driven by sinful lives and extreme sufferings. When you save a sinner by bringing him/her towards God, their sins will be forgiven and you save a soul from death to life. Shall we get ready to save such souls?????


Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, so we have seen the guidance or pathway of leading a true Christian life (rather than being namesake Christians) in this fifth chapter too, where its said about the importance of patience, prayer, our words, rich people's fate and about how to save a sinner. With all these things in mind covered in the book of James, right from Chapter 1 to 5, let us all try our level best to be really genuine Christians while leading our life in this materialistic fake world. Because, our permanent residence is going to be in heaven where we're gonna enjoy eternal everlasting life. Even though I'm not a preacher or evangelist, I've shared this post just to propagate God's word throughout the world, since its one of the foremost duties of a true believer of Jesus Christ. Hope it would have been a blessed one for you and your lives...May God Bless You!

How to Live as a Christian - PART 4

                      Hi all.....Its been a lil' long tym tat I came up with my continuation of previous post. Anyway, rather than blabbering,(:-)) I'll straightly go into the precious facts and messages conveyed in the fourth chapter of James. Here they come................

GIVE YOURSELVES TO GOD (James 4:1-10)

                                          Friends, have you ever wondered why we often go for fights or arguments with  others, be it with family, friends, colleagues or acquaintances...? Its b'coz of no other reason than our own selfish desires and needs that are lingering in our mind always. When we don't get the things we need, we go on arguing for it most of the times....isn't it right? We ask things to God and if we don't get them, then, undoubtedly the thing we asked is wrong or an undesirable one in the sight of God. Here, the Scripture says that, if you're being loyal to God, you'll hate the world in an attempt to become the friend of God. When yielding yourselves to the sinful and lustful and selfish desires of the world, you automatically become God's enemy and become a part of this sinful world. Verse 5 emphasizes on the fact that, the Spirit that God made to live in us wants us to live for Him alone (this can be taken with reference to Exodus 20:5).

                                     And verse 6 brings out the truth from Proverbs 3:34 which states that God also bestows his grace to the humble and not to the proud. So, the simple point is to completely commit ourselves into God's hands and stand against devil so that he'll run from you. When we seek His close relationship, He'll surely come to us. But on the contrary, its almost unfavorable to follow God as well as world at the same time in one hand. James, in verse 10, plainly declares that when we humble ourselves in God's presence, we'll be honored.

YOU ARE NOT THE JUDGE (James 4:11-12)

                               The couple of verses in this passage warns strongly not to judge others and their deeds or activities, because God is the only law-maker and judge and so its better to stop speaking ill of others, which we always commonly gossip and do interestingly. So, dear brothers and sisters, even though its a part of our human character, as true Christians, we ought to stop speaking bad against our neighbor. 

LET GOD PLAN YOUR LIFE (James 4:13-17)

                              Normally, in our everyday routine life, we plan different things pertaining to our personal family life, corporate life or in each and everything, we plan ahead of many things that we ought to do. This is not wrong, but the point to remember is to leave God to plan our life and to let Him have His way in our life, rather than relying on our self-strengths and abilities. After all, our life is like a mist, which is unsure of tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. (James 4:14). Hence, in the future, let us not brag about ourselves, and instead, say that, if God wants, we'll do this or that. (James 4:15)

Beloved in Christ, James Chapter 4 gives us guidance as to how to admit ourselves and our life completely into our Maker's hands and bring out the best in our life out of that. Additionally, James warns us about our peculiar human nature of speaking bad about others and judging them, which is a great sin in the eyes of God, who's only worthy of judging us. Well, with these things in mind, let us strive to lead our Christian life more worthy than ever. In my next post, I'll share the great things conveyed in James Chapter 5. Praise the Lord!

                                   

How to Live as a Christian - PART 3

                               Hi everybody, Well....Today again I've come up with the continuation post of the previous two posts of mine. We've been meditating on the book of James each chapter by chapter. And today I'm here to throw some of the seeds of the fruits given in James Chapter 3. I'll straightly go into our content of this chapter.

CONTROLLING THE THINGS WE SAY (James 3:1-12)

                                You know which is really the most dangerous risky part of our body? hands? feet? head? eyes????...... No, here in this passage, James clearly points out that its nothing but the 'Tongue'. The first verse itself starts with a warning to all those who are to become teachers that they should be even more careful and cautious than others since they and their actions and deeds would watched more by others and judged strictly. He emphasises this saying that they have to be more careful about their words that come out of their tongue. Here, he quotes the examples of horse and ship regarding the control of the tongue. Our tongue seems to be a small part of the body, but it has the capability to push us into destruction and spoil our entire life from being holy. The prophet James compares our tongue to the forest fire, which can spread to large areas and cause great devastating effects. He says that, we, humans can't able to tame our tongue since its wild and evil and full of deadly poison (James 3:8).
                               He brings out the reality of mankind so boldly that he says that we use the same tongue to praise and worship the God Almighty as well as to curse the people whom He Himself had created. Doesn't this seem so true and ironic? So, in the verses 10 to 12,he advises that this should never happen, relating this to different scenarios such as good and bad water coming from the same spring and the like.


TRUE WISDOM (James 3:13-18)

                                   This passage of Scripture makes us clear about true wisdom and understanding. The Word of God stress that true wisdom and understanding will be manifested by living right and doing good deeds with a gentleness that comes from wisdom. On the contrary, James speaks about jealousy and selfishness which are the two traits that lead to bragging about a lie hiding the truth. He undoubtedly tells that this kind of wisdom is not from God, but from the world; and it not spiritual, but devilish. Verses 17 and 18 gives us an exact answer about being truly wise, which states that being pure, gentle, peaceful , helpful, fair and honest and the outcomes of original wisdom from God.


So friends, the third chapter of James just teaches us two things : how we should be careful in using our tongue and being true wise with understanding, which guides us to leave a sin-free holy true Christian life. Let us all pray to our God Almighty for giving us the strength, patience and endurance for us to become like His only son Jesus Christ who was a worthy lamb, amidst this sorrowful and sinful world. In my next post, we'll have an outline of the fourth chapter. God Bless You!