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Four Forgiveness Facts That Can Help You Move On
Yikes! That was my instinctive, not-so-spiritual reaction when I saw this month’s IndiAanya topic. Resolving conflict? Peacemaking? Working through difficult relationships? Ahem. God, could I please take a pass this month and immerse myself in the delightfully pretentious world of social media instead?
Turns out, God gave me the thumbs down on that one. I had ...
Holocaust Remembrance Reminds Us To Act
When I get to Dachau (pronounced Dak-ow), the temperature is 32 degrees Fahrenheit. I grab my camera, map and audio guide and hurriedly bundle up in layers. But nothing can quite prepare me for what I’m about to witness. It’s a bleak winter afternoon and the tourist crowds have thinned.
Once meant to serve as a ...
When God Closes A Door
If there was one person I wanted to be when I was growing up, it was Liesl from The Sound of Music. I couldn’t wait to be 16 going on 17. Like Liesl, I would have a ridiculously tiny waist, wear a flouncy dress and skip elegantly across benches in a dreamy gazebo. The post ...
In Print After Ages
Back in the day, when I was a true-blooded Malayalee nee "Susen George," I worked with newspapers. I had little choice but to churn out articles for the publications every week.
Some 12 years, one hubby and two kidlings later, seeing my name in the byline of a print article has become as common as spotting ...
A Whiff Of Christmas In Prague
Bundled up in wool hats, scarves, mittens, and about two kilos of extra weight in clothes (and admittedly a "few" added grams from the cheese we've been consuming) we wind our way through the woods behind the 12th-century Strahov monastery. I think of Robert Frost's famous lines, "The woods are lovely, dark and deep." Like ...
5 Fun Memories To Create With Your Kids This Christmas
“Have a holly jolly Christmas, It’s the best time of the year,” goes a song on the radio. Sometimes, though, with the hustle and the craziness that the season brings, it’s the most stressful time of the year too. Our lists are never ending and it’s impossible get the to-do’s crossed off as the kids ...
Empty Boxes
Growing up in the 90’s in India, I have many fond memories of Christmas. It was about carol singing into the wee hours of the morning. It was about platefuls of steaming biriyani and brightly coloured paper stars that hung outside homes. It was about homemade plum cake heavy with fruit soaked in alcohol that ...
Making Space – Advent Devotional
Christmas – along it being the most wonderful time of the year, it tends to be the busiest. This Christmas, let’s clear the clutter to make space for Christ. These Advent devotionals, one for each day of December leading up to Christmas, are a small way we can focus on what truly counts.
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A Break From Busy
His name is Rubedo for the melding of colours on his coat. A brown, which is not quite brown. Not quite earth or rust either. A mix of gold and copper and zinc – at least, that’s the online definition of the alloy Rubedo. Evidently, Tiffany & Co launched an entire jewellery line in the ...
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