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Be Blessed & Be Happy !

I know something Good about You

I know something Good about You, is written by some one Anonymous, I found it true and inspiring, indeed there is so much of goodness around, only if we make a choice to see the good in everyone, we would meet God everyday in our lives!

Wouldn’t this old world be better

If the folks we meet would say,

“I know something good about you”

And then treat us just that way.

Wouldn’t it be fine and true

If each handclasp warm and true

Carried with it this assurance,

“I know something good about you!”

Wouldn’t it be lots more happy,

If the good that’s in us all

Were the only things about us

That folks bother to recall ?

Wouldn’t life be lots more happy

If we praised the good we see?

For there’s such a lot of goodness

In the worst of you and me.

Wouldn’t it be nice to practice

That fine way of thinking, too –

You know something good about me!

I know something good about you!

I know you are good ….

There’s goodness in you …

For you are the presence of God

In the world ……

      Be Happy !

Family Meal

The last month was hectic, being summer holidays for my daughter, most of my time was spent in helping her learn swimming and send her dancing, while I managed to drop and pick her up from the these two places, I had very little time left, as I continued with my work. 

Excited about the small changes I have made in I constantly revisited my plan to find ways to influence other aspects of my life too.   While I kept exploring, I found that, after the prayer, each of us in the family got busy with our own schedules, and we were having our meals at different times, and most of the time, I found everyone glued to the Television while they ate silently. 

Having succeeded with praying together, I was encouraged and motivated enough to bring in another small change, and I found that having one meal at least a day with a family will make a definite difference. I was wondering how I go about, and I will felt the best thing to do is to share my thoughts with my husband and once he agrees, it would be easier for others to join in. 

So I spoke one evening with David, and he felt it was a good idea, that the very same day, I planned the meal in advance, so that we are together at the table, there was a little resistant from daughter for first two days, slowly she has learnt to come and join us.   I am still hoping that my mother in law too will join in, but being used to eating alone, and given the age, I want to leave the choice with her – but at the same time being open that one day she too will join in the family meal.

I found this change very welcoming – as it gave us a chance to express ourselves and also understand what is happening in each of our lives, and feel connected with one another.  Family meals brought in sensitivity to our eating patterns, and I realize, I do not need much food, as I am more aware of what I have eaten and whether I require more food to eat.  Planning for this meal helps me focus on what is healthy, and I choose healthy food for the meal.

Small changes bring in great impact ! I  only hope and pray that we are able to continue this new change in our family.

Be Blessed! Be Happy!

Family Prayer

In the last month we  have made one more small change in our family life, and this decision came from my husband David, which made it easier to implement, to integrate the family prayer, which  I always wanted  in the family, but due to various reasons, we found difficult to come together at one particular time to spend time in prayer.

I made attempts in the earlier days of our marriage, and then gradually gave it up, as I could not get everyone together at a particular time, and after the arrival of children, the time schedule changed, we managed with individual prayers and only on some important occasions came together for prayer, that will be only a few times in a year.

One evening David came home early, and suggested we prayer together and Dorothy my daughter who has just learnt her prayers, was eager that she leads us into prayer, I was happy for I did not have to do anything, everything was falling in place.  And so we prayed together and sang hymns, while we did that my mother in law also joined in, so now the whole family was praying together. 

It was a beautiful experience, and the decision was taken that from now on every day we shall pray together as a family, its more than a month now, we have begun this habit, and gradually also bringing in changes in our prayer to make it personal and meaningful.  

Personally I have always believed in prayer, and I have learnt this from my parents who always prayed, and took refuge in God for everything that happened in life.  Even though later on it had become a ritual of saying the rosary at 7p.m. every day, it had helped me to focus my mind on to the creator and be thankful to him , and through a lot of questioning, reading the bible, sharing with friends I have learnt to move beyond rituals to actually develop a personal relationship with the creator.

Today I have a different style of praying, I do not much rely on written prayers, or prayers recited by habit, I just need to close my eyes and open my heart, and I communicate in silence, in a quiet way. I do pray in different ways, some times when I have walked for long and then rest quietly, I am fully aware of God’s presence, at other times, I am singing alone, and doing the ordinary chores, like sorting out clothes, cleaning the shelf, settling my cupboard and I sit down for a while all by myself and open myself to the divine presence and I am filled with gratitude, at other times I take a walk to the church and sit there in silence and I am filled with happiness. 

In the last few days, I found my heart singing psalms of praise while swimming in pool, and I got out of the pool extremely energized and bubbling with enthusiasm and I knew I was connected to the divine, sometimes I am riding, and while I feel touch of the breeze and there is an auto response from my heart, a song on my lips and my riding becomes a divine experience. 

When I look back, at all my varied experiences of the divine, it traces its root to the experience that began from the family prayers, which today has empowered me to believe in myself and to believe in the God who believes in me.

Be Happy !