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from Susan Narjala
Whatever You Do…
I walk into the bedroom and am greeted by an unmade bed. I’ve just returned from dropping the kids off at school, after giving them breakfast and packing the husband’s lunch dabba.
I take a deep breath, swallow my irritation and proceed to make the bed.
Inside my head, though, a monologue begins: “365 times. That’s how many ...
30 Things I’ve Learnt in My 30s
In about two months, I’ll be celebrating my big four-oh. There’s a lot I want to get done before that. There are skills to master, habits to build, distant lands to visit and dreams to crush.
But that can wait. It’s not like life is all downhill after 40. At least that’s what I keep telling ...
A Record, a Remembrance, a Reliving of His Faithfulness
“God, let my husband be the icing on the cake,” I wrote in my journal, circa 2005. It was an honest prayer of a single girl.
Admittedly, it was also a superbly odd prayer. One doesn’t regularly incorporate baking metaphors in prayer and one definitely doesn’t equate a potential spouse to frosting. Yet, those were my ...
An Ode To Deliveries
I decided to wax eloquent about something I'm truly uh-mazed by: how pretty much everything gets delivered to your doorstep in Bangalore. The other day, I needed to pick up curtains from a store 20 minutes away. But I just dunzoed it. I also swiggy-ed my lunch and had my groceries delivered. That, to me, ...
Dear Fellow Moms, What Are We Trying to Prove by Doing it All?
I used to tune into Chopped on Food Network almost every evening. I loved the outlandish ingredients that were pulled out of the mystery basket (Durian and sheep’s hooves, anyone?) and the chefs with their unbelievable knife skills and risotto-making superpowers.
In particular, I remember one episode, not for its culinary wonders or drama, bur for a snippet ...
A Letter To My Daughter On Her 9th Birthday
Hey missy girl,
When you saw that I’d written an open letter to your big brother on his ninth birthday, you were insistent I do the same for you when you turn nine.
That’s you in a nutshell, isn’t it, kid? You know what you want and you go for it. Even as we’re at the halfway ...
A “Little” Insight Into ‘Indescribable’
A few years ago, I was super amped to go to a Chris Tomlin concert with my family. After an energetic rendition of “God’s Great Dance Floor,” there was a short talk by Louie Giglio. I didn’t know who he was at that time, but I remember he spoke about the stars and galaxies and ...
Dear Mama, Your Love Doesn’t Divide, It Multiplies
You couldn’t wait for your firstborn to have a sibling.
You had visions of the two of them sharing the Peppa Pig tent that’s swallowed half the real estate in your formerly formal living room.
You’d pictured them building teetering LEGO towers together.
You’d even planned on how you’d settle those inevitable sibling spats.
But what you hadn’t predicted was the ...
Why It’s Not Enough To Be Brutally Honest Before God
“Confide in God. Share your deepest anxieties with Him.”
I’ve heard similar sentiments throughout my faith life. And I completely subscribe to the idea that I don’t need to pretty things up before coming to Him.
Many, many times, I’ve approached God a blubbering, snotty mess, barely able to form coherent sentences. I rest in the fact ...
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