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 to a time travel, back to the beginning of creation. No life anywhere. All is barren! You and I  are now, a thrusting desire and a long cherished dream in Gods heart. He runs his fingers through the innumerable planets floating in the galaxy and looks at earth with favour.  He foresees in His infinite mindscape, man and generations of mankind, molded truly after him, cohabit in eternal union with him. Like an architect gearing up to build his masterpiece, God sets out. But pauses, stricken by a vital thought, having to create lavish paraphernalia for the one to come. He is lulled by ideas of trees and fruits, birds and the sky, abundance of water teaming with fish, mountains capped with snow, animals of all kind, sun to light up the earth, night to rest, stars to shimmer at night and moon to keep watch while his children sleep.   I will soak them in love and pamper them with my presence; they are my only priority, he ...

We get distracted and stray away if we have a wavering focus. Instead if we have a single focus in mind, for life, every situation, be it negative or positive, will be a stepping stone, to inch closer to that focus. This is independent of what happens to us and around us. For a Christian, our life's focus is union with Christ . This begins here on earth and culminates gloriously in eternal life. Wrong focus is like wearing a dark glass and forgetting it is there. Everything looks dark and we presume the darkness to be normal and stray away. Suppose ones focus is to create wealth. Every person, situation, opportunities that comes his way, will be used to achieve his focus. In the process, he fail to  attend to the focus of others. But if our focus is Christ, we will create wealth and  still focus on Christ. This enables us to share, empower, create opportunities for others to grow and thus draw closer to our focus. And at the same time, enjoy a great deal of the providence...

In the the Trininty, the Father gives himself completely to the Son and Son, to the Father. Giving oneself completely to the other is called love. Nothing else qualifies to be love :) The Holy Spirit is the love between the Father and the Son. In other words, He is the what proceeds from the Father and Son. Unmistakably what proceeds from both the Father and the Son is love. So Love thus is the Holy Spirit himself. The love, proceeds from the Father and the Son because they have love in them. So they already have the Holy Spirit in them. Son receives everything father gives and the Father receives everything Son gives. What they both receive is thus the Holy Spirit. Interesting isn't it? The Greek word Perichoresis means mutual indwelling or inter penetration. This is the word, theologians use, to represent the Trinity. Our God is a "communion" from eternity. When God created us, He created us in His image and likeness. He created us man and and woman, as units cap...

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...

എന്തിനെന്നറിയാതെന്‍ മനം തേങ്ങി എന്തിനോ വേണ്ടി തിരഞ്ഞു മൂകമായ് ലഭിക്കുന്നതോന്നുമല്ല നിനച്ചതെ-  ന്നുരച്ചു മറ്റെന്തോ തിരഞ്ഞലസമായ് പറന്നുയരാന്‍ കൊതിച്ച കിനാവുകളെല്ലാ-  മെന്തെ ചാരത്തടര്‍ന്നു വീണൂ മൊട്ടിട്ടു പൂവായ് കാണാന്‍ കൊതിച്ചൊരാ തളിരുകളിനിയും തളിര്‍ക്കില്ലെയോ ഒറ്റക്കിരിക്കുമ്പോള്‍ ഓര്‍ക്കുവാനായി കുറിച്ചിട്ട കുറിതങ്ങള്‍ മാഞ്ഞതെന്തേ മാമകചിത്തത്തിനലസമായലയാനീ മരുവിലുമില്ലോരല്‍പ്പമിടമതെന്തേ കൈവിട്ടതല്ല നീ എന്നെ എന്നേക്കുമായ് എന്നോര്‍ക്കുവാന്‍വെമ്പുന്നോരെന്‍ മനമേ അരുതാത്തതൊന്നും നിന്നഗതാരിലിനിയും അലസമായ് അലയാന്‍ അനുവദിക്കരുതെ മനസിന്‍റെ ദൌര്‍ബല്യമെല്ലാമിനിമേല്‍ മനസിന്‍റെ നൈര്‍മല്യമായിടട്ടെ മനമേ ഒരുങ്ങൂ നിന്‍ മണവാളനായി ചാരത്തണയുമവനിനി നിന്‍തുണയായി നീ മാത്രമാണെന്നാത്മാവിന്‍ ആലംബം നീ തന്നെ സര്‍വവും എന്‍ലോകമതും നിന്നെ പിരിഞ്ഞിരിക്കുവാനാവില്ലിനിയും മമഗേഹത്തിലണയൂ നാഥാ വേഗം എന്‍ ആലാപം നീയേ, ആരാമം നീയേ ദേഹിക്കു തണലേകുമരയാലും നീയേ നിന്നുടെ ചാരത്തണഞ്ഞു ഞാന്‍ മെല്ലെ യലിഞ്ഞില്ലാതാകട്ടെ ഒരു നറുമണമായി

കലുഷിതമാമെ ന്നുള്‍ത്തടങ്ങള്‍ എരിയുന്നിതവിരാമമീമരുവില്‍ ചെയ്തികളൊക്കെയും തെറ്റുന്നു പാടെ മൊഴിയുന്നതൊക്കെ മുറിവേല്‍പ്പിക്കുന്നു എന്നില്‍ എന്നിക്കുള്ള വിശ്വാസമെല്ലാം കാലഹരണപ്പെട്ടു പോയീ നിസ്തുലം കഴിയുന്നില്ലേ മാനുഷാ  നിനക്കീ ജീവിതം നിന്നുടെ തുണയോടൊപ്പം? ആശ്വാസ മാകേണ്ട  നീ ഇന്നവള്‍ക്കൊരു ഭാരമായി  തീര്‍ന്നുവോ ചിന്തിച്ചു നോക്കൂ തെറ്റിയത് മകനേ അവള്‍ക്കോ, നിനക്കോ? അറിയില്ല സോദരാ, ഈ നാള്‍ വരേയ്ക്കും പരസ്പരം ഉണ്ടായ പ്രശ്നങ്ങളെല്ലാം പരിഹരിക്കാനായി ശ്രമിച്ചീടുകില്‍ പഴയതിലും നില മോശമായി പരിണമിക്കുന്നു എന്നത് പരമ സത്യം വേളിക്കു മുമ്പൊക്കെ നാട്ടുകാര്‍ക്കെല്ലാം ഉപദേശം നല്‍കിയ ജ്ഞാനമൊക്കെ ഇന്നെന്‍റെ കാര്യത്തില്‍ ഉപയോഗ ശൂന്യമെ ന്നാരോട് പറയാന്‍ ആവുമെനിക്ക്‌ എങ്ങനെ മാറണമെന്നറിയാനായ്  യേശുവിന്‍ ചാരത്ത്‌ താഴ്മയായി പ്രാര്‍ ത് ഥി ച്ചതൊ ക്കെയും വ്യര്‍ഥമായോ? അറിയാന്‍ വിതുമ്പുന്നു മമഹൃദയം കേള്‍ക്കും നീ ഒരുനാളെന്‍ മന:ഗദ്ഗദം കാണാമറയത്തെ കാരുണ്യയമേ കാരണമാവണേ എന്‍ വ്യഥകള്‍ തരളിതമാം നിന്‍ മനസലിയാന്‍ പ്രത...

The undignified life of a slave is despicable!   Yet the truth is that every one of us is a slave. We are slaves either to what hold us in bondage or what sets us free. Our well being as slaves depends totally on the character of the master we serve. When we cover our eyes and pronounce darkness as our new master, the Light does not abandon us, but lingers through time, looking to dispel the darkness we retracted to, and re-expose us to the reality of true freedom. Freedom for a slave was possible only if someone paid the owner a huge price in exchange of the slave and then sets him free.  Jesus paid the price. He paid it with His own blood and redeemed us. It took the son of God, a role shift from “the creator” to “created”. From an embryo in the virgin’s womb to an adult, chiseling out grains of wood to make a living.  From a nomadic teacher who dared to question the fallacy of prominent men to the One who would finally restore all that is corrupted and con...

It's not about Roti and Daal. Jesus categorically said, do not worry about what to eat. We can be as inattentive to this as we are to our growing nails. This is because there are some real things we should be mindful of. Consider an Artist, his Brush and the Painting. As time goes by, what remains and matters is the Artist and the  Painting, not the Brush. No body says this painting was done by the nylon, fan round, flat, size 8, French made, brown Brush. The Artist is God, I'm the Brush, The Painting is my life, a master piece in the making. In another words, Jesus is saying, be mindful of the Artist and the Painting and don't worry about the brush too much. "Give us today our daily bread" alludes to our need for a daily doze of nourishment to translate, a day in our life into a fine stroke of the Artist on the canvas of life. In simple terms, the need for a personal time with God on a daily basis. Since this is all abou...

Success comes to anyone who allow God to work in them. This is guaranteed despite our size, shape, intelligence and competence. As I finished talking, people rise to their feet to applaud what they just witnessed and I walk away with great sense of achievement. I dwell in this euphoric resonance of success and own it completely as my own. I let God, who granted me success, fade in the background to oblivion. Every event is good for itself. After we have done well with one, we must move on, preparing for the next. If we get stuck in the aura, success generates, we miss the possible new life that Jesus offers through death and resurrection. It puts us on the offensive if someone challenge this success. On the contrary if we alienate ourselves from the success and admit that God used me that moment and I did my best by being available, with no agenda of my own, I can move on with out a hangover. Any reaction to my success then, be it positive or negative amounts to my growth into the ...