To Understand

Shall we make it a priority to understand each other
And help each others to reach their goals in life.

Family: The Vessel of Clay or Iron?

The family can be like a vessel made out of clay
That can be too weak enough to take any fall.
The same family can be an iron vessel
That is too strong enough to take any fall.
The material of the family is decided by
The people who use it as their actions mould it.
God made the vessel of family to be used
For His Glory in every thing that they do.
When they come together and pray
And live in mutual Love and Respect;
And above all to fear His name and live accordingly
God blesses the vessel to be the strongest one.
The most important time when the strength
Is tested is when the vessel takes a fall.
Remember; unless the vessel comes out of
the fall rigid and strong it will not be of use any further.
And the only way to over come a fall is
Through prayer and intercession and God sends His Grace.
The Grace would let you understand at the time
Of Fall what are you supposed to react according to Thy will.
The best gift that the Grace could give a vessel of family
Is to forget and forgive the mistakes and shortcomings of it members.
Let God to build our families
Let God to mould our vessels.
Let us be ready to forget for the sake of God'd Love.
Let us be ready to forgive for the sake of God's moulding of vessels.

The Bicycle

The first vehicle that one owns,
Teaches us many things.
The dreams that one dreamt of
While seeing friends riding on it.

The pride they enjoyed was a sight to see;
It made us also to really work hard
And learn to cycle as we knew it
Was a great feeling to have the wind brushing on face.

It gave us the first independence
The chance to go around to the next lane
And see whats happening their
And quickly reach back home before the parents got worried.

It showed us new sights and places
Though one could not fly like birds,
Bicycle made us to fly in another sense
And it gave colors to vacations.

Looking back at all this,
The life of a person who realised
Christ's presence in his life is
Similar in some senses to all these feelings.

However, the awesomeness that one
Feels when you have Christ in your life
Is far better than the pleasure of cycling
As it opens a new world in front of all who witnesses Him.

A new friend and father who
Comes to you to forgive you of all your sins
And guide you to the destinies of your life
And in turn become a better person.

The Clay

How does God shapes his people;

How does he mould them into 

the vessels of His own shape?

The vessels having shapes of Love,

Forgiveness, and Faithfulness with the

simple clay submitted to His hands?

The potter moulds it after mixing it

With water and then making it to

go round on his wheel.

Although it is easy to make a 

Vessel of no use; whereas it takes

a gifted skill to make a Useful vessel.

The special potter whom we have

Makes the vessels of special shape

by first becoming a vessel himself.

Only a person who was forgiven

For a sin which he committed 

Will learn to forgive others.

Only a person who was Loved

By someone unconditionally

Can Love all around him unconditionally.

Only when a person who saw the 

Words of the Lord coming to reality

Can have trust in Him.

Now, God gives his Love, Forgiveness

And Faithfulness to all His Kids

Irrespective of were they are morally.

But He expects each person to 

Live a new life in accordance 

To the gift he was offered by the Lord.

As the potter expects his clay

To be ready to get shaped according

To the dexterity of His hands

Our Loving Lord expects us to

have a life of obedience to His

Laws to help Him to mould us in the best way.

In all our prayers, let us all clays,

Pray for the grace of our Lord

To make us obedient wet clay.

Sweetness of failure.

You can call me a pessimist

When I say that failures are tastier

Our world likes the taste of success

They say, failure is the stepping stone.

Or, rather is success the stepping stone?

Oh dear ones, why to bother on failures

Why do you keep her in dark shades?

She is the sister of success

She is sweet like honey

When the light of love falls on her!

Comrades, don’t we all fail every day?

We really struggle when she is with us

She brings with her the toughest lessons of life

We being lazy hate her for this

And adore her sister who makes us rot.

People, we pass a test to take a step

Then starts the jubilation

All for realizing at a later time

That this was not worth the celebration,

The generations continue to fall in the same trick.

This in no means mean that

One should abstain from attempting

But the guilt begins when one insists

My desires and ambitions should be met

Without looking up to what Lord wanted?

We pray,’ May Thy will be done on earth,

As it is in heaven’, and what do we do?

We forget that Jesus won us by his submission

Then Jesus had to taste the sourest

Yet, the sweetest failure in the cross for us!

Season’s fail each other for sustenance

Spring looses to winter, winter to summer

Summer to rain, rain to spring

The reason for the harmony,

And life, on this beautiful planet!

Day fails to night, night to day

Balance fails to fall, all to get better

And if one don’t fall, he will neither learn-

The way to improve, nor get an insight into

Where do I stand and where Am I going?

                                                                                   

                                                                                                                                                                                   

Let not our Aims be neither at success nor failure

Instead let them be pointed to perfection

And then we’ll say,’ Not my will Lord

Thy will be done’, which is submission,

To the divine purpose of our creator!

The failure of the seed gifts us a plant

Mother suffers a lot of pain to deliver the baby

Pain is part of the strive

Never mistake it with our heroin

The beautiful lady behind all wise!

Let us never stop chasing the heavenly wisdom

Which can be learnt well at failure,

One never forgets to come to the doors daily

To contemplate upon the word

Because of the fear of going off the track!

To sum it all, make not your aims on the gifts of this world,

Let thy treasures be in the world where no one can steal

Most of all failure is bitter in this world

The world hates it and runs away from it

But it is sweet only the context of Agape!

Bini Koshy Varghese

                                                                                    St. Luke’s Orthodox Syrian Church, Vellore.

Staying on Rent!!

Yeah, we are all living on rent
In this beautiful world,
Made by God to show His
Love to the Mankind.

But, we live as if it is all
Ours and we severely deserve
All that we possess without
Listening to the cry of the needy.

How long will you keep your
Eyes shut to this heart aching
Sight of the people suffering
And you continue celebrating.

At the end of the month,
The owner will come asking for the rent,
Take a moment to look into our
Pockets to see if we can pay it.

You are right, this money
Is credited in reverse to the world's way.
It's when you give the owner that
Your money gets truly deposited.

What worthiness can I hold to say
These words asked my wounded heart,
And he told it is that submission that
Makes you worthy to continue life paying rents!

Dreams

Sleeping is the right time to see a dream
Or probably that's the first time that
We have all seen a dream in our lives.

Who introduced these dreams to us,
have you ever thought my friends,
rather who taught us to dream?

Was it our caring parents?
Indeed, they were the one who
Used to tell stories to us to make us sleep.

And so, even after we are in the sleep
We continue to go ahead with the story
And that happens in the dream.

But did they really teach us to dream.
No, its an instinct given to man
By his creator to convert words in ideas.

Not just ideas, instead words into seeds
The seeds of a better tomorrow
The desire for a better life.

So in another sense, dreams carry
Seeds which give birth to plants
That produce of fruits of a better life.

But, when we look at people around
Most of them are not satisfied with the life
And the reason is this unfulfilled dream.

A dream that's not fulfilled will really
Make a person to loose his sleep,
And a fulfilled dream gives a deeper sleep too.

The fact to be understood here is that
Dreams are desires given inside a man
For giving Him a purpose in Life.

And God wants Him to follow those dreams
Which is required for the world.
It is a hard journey to live a fulfilled life.

Let no person control another one
In living His own life, and then
Life will be much more easier.

Remember also to submit the dreams to
The creator who gave them to you
As only with him can one achieve them.