My Articulate Heart

All of us, at some point in our lives, negate a strong inclination from within to change. To change the way we behave in specific situations. This includes how we react to certain situations, questionable ways we operate to fulfill some of our unspecific desires, Certain passions at work in us that give rise to actions that we are not truly comfortable with etc. This desire to change is a positive drive and a default mechanism within man that operates as result of our original goodness. All of us are inherently good. At the same time we are also the result of the situations we have gone through, our circumstances, certain traits that is passed down to us from our parents and grandparents. The usual tendency is to live with these anomalies and get used to it so much that we fail to differentiate what is innate from what is acquired. All of us, at any point of time can change. The process of change begins with an awareness that I need to change. The challenge is to take this awarene...

Get on board with me for a little time travel, back to the beginning of creation. No life anywhere. All is barren. You and I are, as it were, a desire in the heart of God—a dream He has chosen to bring into existence. He runs His fingers through the innumerable planets scattered across the heavens and looks upon the earth with favour. In His infinite wisdom, He sees what is yet to come: man and generations of humanity, created in His image and likeness, called to live in communion with Him forever. Like an architect preparing to build his masterpiece, God sets out to create. But first, He prepares a world for the one who is to come. Trees and fruits. Birds and the sky. Abundant waters teeming with fish. Mountains capped with snow. Animals of every kind. The sun to illuminate the earth. Night to bring rest. Stars to shimmer in the darkness. The moon to keep watch over the night. Creation is prepared as a home for humanity. I will fill them with My love and presence, we might imagine th...

We get distracted and stray when our focus wavers. But when we have a single focus in life, every situation—whether positive or negative—can become a stepping stone that draws us closer to that goal. What happens to us or around us does not have to determine our direction. Our focus does. For a Christian, the focus of our life is union with Christ . This union begins here on earth and reaches its glorious fulfilment in eternal life. A wrong focus is like wearing dark glasses and forgetting that we are wearing them. Everything appears dark, and we begin to assume that darkness is normal. We adjust our lives accordingly and slowly lose our way. Suppose our focus is to create wealth. Then every person we meet, every situation we encounter, and every opportunity that comes our way may be evaluated according to how it can help us achieve that goal. In the process, we may fail to recognise or serve the deeper purposes and needs of others. But if our focus is Christ, we can still create wealt...

In the Trinity, the Father gives Himself completely to the Son, and the Son gives Himself completely to the Father. Giving oneself completely to the other is love. The Holy Spirit is the divine Person who proceeds eternally from the Father and the Son. In the mystery of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit is not merely a force or an abstract idea of love. He is Love, fully God, eternally proceeding within the communion of the Father and the Son. The Father gives everything to the Son. The Son receives everything from the Father and gives Himself completely back to the Father. Their eternal communion is so perfect that the Holy Spirit proceeds from them as the eternal bond and communion of divine love. Isn't that an extraordinary mystery? The Greek word perichoresis is used by theologians to describe the mutual indwelling and communion of the Persons of the Trinity. The Father is in the Son, the Son is in the Father, and the Holy Spirit dwells in this perfect communion—not as three gods, ...

Joseph looked at every faint instance of light his eyes could reach, hoping to figure out a fitting place for the son of God to be born. Mary, full term pregnant, holding firmly to her husband’s hands, advanced one step at a time, without a destination in mind, in a land foreign to them. The sense of duty and obligation to provide the best, for the God to come, being chosen to be the mother and foster father, compelled them to knock every door that night. They went past Inn doors, were from it hung on the knobs, temporary boards that displayed the text “bear with us, no room to spare”. To give God, something fitting is on the agenda for probably all of us. Right in that process, when we are face with rejection, often in our mind, we quiz and burn with indignation. Those inn keepers, who did not have a spare room that night to oblige to josephs’ plea, stands righteous in God’s presence for they did accommodate, even the last passerby, until the inn was full. Our acts and aspiration...