Monday, 6 June 2016

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.


Thursday, 26 May 2016

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.









Thursday, 31 March 2016

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!