2011 - A MIRACULOUS YEAR FOR ME :) :) :D

Waaaaaa....Finally am so thankful and grateful to God as He has been with me throughout this year and brought me here till the end with his abounding Grace and Mercy. One more day to survive in this year 2011 and get into the awaiting beautiful new year 2012 and I wonder what all gifts God has wrapped inside His arms to present me in the coming year too...... :)

Last year I remember the same time I have written a post about the miserable year 2010 for me and about how am entering into this year 2011 with so many hopes and wishes. And today am gonna share with all of you about what I feel about this year 2011....To start with simple words, my entire idea and gist of this year can be summed up just with a single word 'MIRACLE'...Yes my friends, it was a wholesome package of 365-days miracle..............

I started this year with prayers and praises in God's presence. And God gave me a wonderful promise this year from 2Corinthians 9:8 which says that,

"And God can give you MORE BLESSINGS THAN YOU NEED. Then you will always have plenty of everything - enough to give to every good work."

And when I received this promise, I started the year with great confidence and faith which, today has driven me somewhere great that I'm sitting now with a smile typing all these words with immense gratefulness to my Creator. 

In whatever phase of my life you take, be it educational or professional or personal or spiritual, God has blessed me in each and every domain of my life more than I expected or anybody else in this world anticipated. There were of course times when I had to face trials which drove me to a state of fear and depression. But, amidst all those storms, His mighty Hand was with me which strengthened me and raised me up softly to great heights. He was telling me,

"I am the Lord your God, who holds your right hand, and I tell you, "Don't be afraid. I will help you" (Isaiah 41:13)

which made me strong and able to do everything by His might and accomplish great things this year everywhere and in everything. 

To quote all verses He gave me and to specifically say all the miracles and blessings that He bestowed on me, this one post is insufficient and so I just wanna share to you a simple message or lesson that I learnt this year which will be surely useful for you too. Dear reader, life is not same all the time. There will be ups and downs, good as well as bad times. But during all times, don't ever lose your hope because of your situation or the people's discouraging words. Be of good courage and always put your trust and faith in God praising Him and honoring Him for everything and in all times. It will be be difficult of course, but try to practise this and then you'll start experiencing peace and miracles in your life. 

"It was good for me to suffer so I would learn your demands." Psalm 119:71

Remember always that If God is with us, nobody can defeat us.....Have a wonderful year ahead!
WISH YOU ALL A VERY HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR.....GOD BLESS YOU ALL! 

The longggggggg Journey where Blogging has taken me............

Its been almost more than a year that I started blogging which I came to know today seeing my first post which was on September 3rd, 2010. Its amazing that I've written almost 38 posts within a year, that too, each and every posts depicting some kind of intuition which arose within me. But, what I was thinking today was what made me suddenly to come into this blogging activity and am just gonna share with all of you how far this blogging has taken me into my life...............................

Basically, am a technologist and neither a poetess nor an English literature student to come into writing. But, the truth is that I always had that burning passion for writing as I had a good mastery over the language and got that expressive kind of character which is very much essential for an impressive writing. The fact is that I didn't get the time or opportunity to sit and share my thoughts with everyone through writing. It was last year that unexpectedly I got the opportunity or to say it more precisely, got the circumstance which led me to start writing a personal blog of mine. I was almost pushed to the situation of being at home for some time and a very best friend of me who knows very well about my caliber and God-gifted talents motivated me to start writing a blog as a result of which I started just like that playfully to pass my time.

 But to my surprise, this pleasurable pastime activity has taken me somewhere now to the extent of having writing as my part-time career yielding money for me. Yes, in a nutshell, there were many people who went through my blog and appreciated and encouraged me a lot. Furthermore, I also got a job as a content writer in a company which added more fertilizer for the growth of my talent. I started shining wherever I went because of my writing skills where people urged me to write some content for their business or organization or for many other purposes. And even further, now I've started earning on my own because of my writing skills which have almost now totally transformed my career of a software profession into a full-time web content entrepreneur.

And now its time for me to thank all those who adored me, motivated me and who were by my side to support me in all that I did which is the main reason for my present status today. Above all, I thank God that finally He executed His plan for my life so beautifully and surprisingly. Because a person like me who’s in a totally different career coming into this stream is something very odd and absurd but which can happen only for a genuine reason like God’s will.

Philippians 2:13 “It is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.” (NIV)

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!