Thank You Robin

Robin thank you for your red ribbon

I love reading about your Romanian experiences. Your last post made me chuckle.There are so many similarities between India and Romania.

Butterflies, Blossoms, Vines and Cacti

Children are like butterflies -

a friend 's daughter

People are like blossoms


colorful and scented


All these are found in our garden

Can anyone tell me their names

I am like this rambling

gourd or courgette vine

This is the vegetable.

But some folk are like cacti ready to prick you if you get close enough.

Yesterday I dropped in to see an old lady on the first death anniversary of her husband but she vas cold and indifferent.. She 's been like a cactus all her life, maybe her method of self protection.

Today I had to go to a bank known for its cactus people.I prayed really hard before , the Lord 's favor showered on me and a man gave me the information I sought - after fussing a little.I stood before him with a pathetic face and literally begged him to help me ...so he took pity on me.

In India you have to try all sorts of PR techniques to get your job done LOL.

Today Simran came for her lessons. She did not turn up yesterday.Before school work, I trimmed her hair,shampooed , washed and oiled it. Made her vash her face, hands and feet with soap.

That child is a victim of neglect and emotional abuse.The mother favors her son.Daughter is of less value.V vant to make her feel loved and needed.

I applaud and admire the vay, you my blog friends are raising your children ,many of them with special needs. I am inspired by you and I also vant to do something for children.

Gotta Eat

Someone has said ; I EAT TO KEEP MY MIND OFF FOOD.Don 't you agree?

Those are not my legs. I uploaded the above from HappyLOLday.blogspot.com

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Today I made patties or kebabs with soya granules.
They come a box.
You cook them with lentils and spices, then zip them in a food processor.Add finely chopped onions, fresh coriander leaves (green chillies ). Form patties and shallow fry them in a skillet.

They go vell with any kind of bread or rice or you can just have them with ketchup or a dip.

Mine turned out
like this

The lemon and green chillies are from our garden.Plums are from the market.

Birthday Visit

Unexpected bloom in the monsoonThe grapefruit ripen in Nov/Dec


Visited an aunt on her birthday this morning. She said her greatest gift vas her son and daughter and their families getting together to celebrate the occasion after a very long time.They live a short distance from each other but hardly ever meet.





Bought mutton (goat meat) and vegetables on the vay back.Our food prices have really shot up, and all over the world too. I bought meat after a gap of several weeks.I don 't miss it much.A vegetarian meal cooked to my liking satisfies me.


Simran came for lessons in the evening. She has her term tests next month and she has missed out on a lot of school. Parental neglect.She is putting in a lot of effort but she is vay behind.I feel so sorry for her.Her mother came so late to pick her up the poor child started to cry and v tried to comfort her the best v could.


Today vas a day of high drama in the Indian Parliament.But the present government von the vote of confidence by a good majority - Praise God for that.

The government of this world rest upon our Prince Of Peace as Isaiah says.

He appoints our leaders.

History is HIS STORY

Am I being served?

My bed tea please - first thing in the morningYou forgot my goodnight biscuit

Life Lessons

I have heard sermons about turning the other cheek, loving our enemies, if someone asks for your shirt give away your coat too etc. etc. And I have asked the Lord to help me assimilate and practice these teachings of Christ in my life.
God takes our prayers very seriously opens ways for us to put our faith into shoe-leather as Dr J Vernon McGee would say.
I was not going to share this experience in a post, but I struggled with it , so I thought I might put it here.

A day after Aunt Sybil 's funeral I discovered that a young woman with a troubled past,who sometimes comes to our church had caused Mama and me considerable financial loss. I went into shock and panic, but I did not share it with Mama as she was suffering and ill.I told 2 of my sisters about it.(Mama does not know about this )
At first my heart was full of anger and resentment against this girl -Al.But after speaking to my sisters and Prem I just committed the whole incident in the Lord 's hands and asked Him to wash away the hurt and loss from my heart.

Al has had a troubled childhood.Her mother died when she was a baby and her father neglected and emotionally abused her brother and her.
She made several false starts in life and messed up relationships quite often.

Our family tried to help the two siblings several times.Once when she was a teenager Al became mute. It was a psychological problem. But people around her thought it was demon possession - maybe it was.
She needed to be counselled but people were afraid and no one would open their home to her.My parents took her in and tried to" bring her around". Once in church she went berserk and started screaming at the preacher but when we prayed she went mute again. (I was working in another place when all this took place)
The Lord used my younger sister Namrita as a catalyst and she helped Al return to normal life.

Al is now married and has a 4 year old son. She is much better now, but you know we are made of clay and slip at a moment 's notice.
Last week I heard that she had been very sick and the doctors had to give her 2 bottles of blood to save her life.
Immediately my mind said;Aha this is what happens to people who ---And a number of "suitable" Bible verses flashed on my brain.
But the Lord rebuked me and said ;You go and visit her on her sick bed.
After that ,the matter was settled in my soul and I went to see her.
She was lying on her bed and her little son was playing next to her.Compassion and love flowed from my heart - she looked so sick and weak.I sat with her for sometime and visited with her parents and husband. As I was leaving she asked me to pray for her and I laid hands on her and prayed. And the Lord gave me such peace in my heart.

I learnt a lesson about forgiveness and 1 Cor 13 -LOVE
When I was a student we had weekly Bible studies and prayer meetings . In these meetings our leaders encouraged us to share what the Lord had taught us that week and share our burdens and prayer requests.In that same spirit I shared my experience here, not to appear noble or righteous. But to testify about the grace of God which flows to a weak needy person like me

Lord ,like the old tree in the photo , light a fire in the hollow emptiness of my life.

Sunday Blessings -Visitors

Although Saturday morning was grey and rainy, the sun broke through with a surprise call from a friend from Canada. We have been visiting each other 's blogs and she has been such a blessing to me and now it was wonderful to visit by phone. I felt we are like next door neighbours.No matter how far we live from each other and how varied our cultures may be, when God 's Spirit dwells in us become one family in Christ.

We had many visitors this weekend.A Pastor from a local church, a young missionary couple and their daughter from Varanasi and an engineering professor and his doctor wife.
After church today a doctor intern from the Medical College and her friend who is a doctor in the Leprosy Mission Hospital also dropped by.
But early in the morning we had these herons swooping down looking for breakfast insects and frogs in the grass. But Sheeba the huntress chased them away after a while, afraid they would take over her territory.

Yesterday I got my Unlimited Internet connection. Which means I don 't have to pay for each page I open.This is worth the money.
From tomorrow 6 year old Sinran will come each evening for school work. She has started going to a new school and has to be tutored in her new syllabus.Mama and I will help this child for free.

I have a new template and the transfer was only possible with the help of my dear sister in Christ, Carol-Ann. A BIG THANK YOU TO YOU CAROL-ANN. without your help Cinderella 's pumpkin would have simply remained a common garden variety...instead of being transforned into a Porsche. LOL
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Thank you for praying for Cole.

I got this from Terry 's blog. They took samples for biospy and the results will come on July 31st. His liver doesn 't look good the doctors said. We have to keep praying for this precious child.

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This week the Lord impressed upon my heart lessons about self-denial, taking up my cross and following Him and shunning the attractions of the world and the pride of life.

Prayer Request

Please pray for Cole, Ron ' s 12 year old grandson.He is undegoing surgery today (July 18th).I have copied Terry 's post for you

Hello ,Just wanting to ask for prayers for Cole [ my 12 year old grandson ] on his upcoming surgery Friday July 18th .View his blog and leave comment at http://cole12.wordpress.com/He forgot about the liver transplant that still may have to be done .Blessings and thanks !Ron. RRBJ.... http://rrbj.wordpress.com/ Here is a post that Cole made in April. WILL YOU PRAY FOR MEApril30,2008 I’m sorry it has been so long since I have wrote anything I have just been really sick. A few months ago I had started throwing up like last year when I got mono. So I went to the doctor and they didn’t notice anything wrong. I kept throwing up but, it got worse everything I ate or drank came right back up. It made me lose about 20 pounds. The day after I went back the doctors told me too wait another week. I was in school and we were about to go to lunch when I was called to sign out. I got up to the office and my mom was there and she wouldn’t tell me what was wrong and we got home and she said to get some clothes and she very upset. I kinda figured that I was going to the hospital and that ended up to be where we were going.We got there and the doctor said that I had to stay at the hospital. He said to stay in room 316 and all I could think was John 3:16. I didn’t know what was going to happen and me and my mom sat in the room for about an hour or so and three doctors came in the surgeon said that they are going to have to take my gallbladder out. They had to plan when to do the surgery so we had to wait. The surgeon wanted to do the surgery on the next day which was Saturday so I could get out of there on the weekend but, he couldn’t so we had to wait a week till surgery.After the surgery I felt like I weighed 500 pounds. If you have a weak stomach skip this part. I had to use the bathroom so I got out of the hospital bed and yellow stuff from my stomach poured out all over the place. I could barely walk so my stepdad stayed and he had to help me get to the bathroom. The yellow stuff kept on pouring out seaping through the three pads I had on top of my bellybutton. I had four stitches and two were about two inches long and the other two were just dots. I also had no belly button it had to grow back cause it was closed up. I also could not sleep because every two hours the nurses would come in and take my blood pressure. The next day I went home but I couldn’t go to school or anything.I had to be on hospital homebound for two months. I went back to school for about a week and I had gotten sick again. My mom and I went to the doctors office and the doctor did not no what to do so he did some bloodwork on my liver enzymes and ordered an ultrasound on my liver. When the test came back my liver enzymes were high and my liver was swollen really bad. The doctor researched some things I could have and there was a lot of different things that had the same symptoms so he did not know what was wrong. Just a few days ago we went back cause I am still hurting so he ordered a cat scan for may 8th so maybe on may 9th we will know something. So please pray for me. Thanks!!!While you are praying for me, one more requestMay5,2008As some of you may know I have a sister that is 8 years old and has leukemia, she could really use prayer also. She has been sick for a long time and we know that prayer encourages miracles to happen, so if you would please pray for her to. Her name is Taylor. Thank you, Love Cole

Catty Business

Got a Kitty to help me with the job - I named him Michael Angelo.

Terry saw my previous masterpiece and encouraged me to create this.I feel like Michael Angelo 's apprentice. LOL. Poor Sheeba looks cornered, surrounded by feline foes.




Dear Friends, Thank you for your prayers. mama is much better . I popped into my homeopathic shop, described her symptoms and he gave me a digestive syrup which helped her a lot.

Earlier our family Doctor, a very famous physician prescribed pills over the phone from Delhi.He was very kind,usually they don 't do that and charge heavy fees.But since he was out of town, he did us a favor.We were glad we saved his very expensive fees too.

God proves His lovingkindness towards us in such simple things.

Terry go ahead and swipe Sheeba picture.She 's up for grabs.

I used the cookie cutter shape.

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Hey friends can you help our Kitty give captions to picture for example:-

Its Raining Cats and Dog

Catnip

Taming of the Shew

A Thorn Among Roses

and what Robert Orben has said;

"WE HAVE ENOUGH PEOPLE WHO TELL IT LIKE IT IS -

NOW WE COULD USE A FEW WHO TELL IT LIKE IT C AN BE".

Doggie Pause

With help from Terry I was able to do this.
Sheeba on a mongoose hunting mission