Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from March, 2023

Sana's Dress

  In a small village in India, there lived a young woman named Sana. In a week’s time, a large festival will be held with visitors from all over. As Sana anticipates the event, she imagines herself wearing a beautiful dress to greet her many friends and make new ones. Green is her favorite color and so the dress must be green but it must also have red flowers. But how could she afford such a dress? In her world, fine dresses are rarely enjoyed by the poor. And she couldn’t ask her parents when they are pressed just to keep the household together with enough food in the belly of her siblings. Even with those thoughts, Sana is not discouraged. She knows that she could have the dress and what a pleasure it would be to wear it among her people. As the days pass by and the event gets closer, her mind again turns to the dress. She begins to think of situations that could enable her to acquire her dress. And when she gets it, she will put it on. In such moments, she can almost feel the fa...

The Difference (a poem by Grace L. Naessens)

 Many thanks to Grace for putting her pen to paper to write this simple but powerful poem. I got up early one morning and rushed right into the day; I had so much to accomplish that I didn't have time to pray Problems just tumbled about me, and the heavier came each task. "Why doesn't God help Me?" I wondered. He answered, "You didn't ask". I wanted to see joy and beauty, but the day toiled on, gray and bleak; I wondered why God didn't show me. He said, "But you didn't seek." I tried to come into God's presence; I used all my keys at the lock. God gently and lovingly chided, "My child, you didn't knock." I woke up early this morning, and paused before entering the day; I had so much to accomplish that I had to take time to pray