Our latest family photo (22/8/2011)

We are now planning to photoshop out the background, and get this printed

Enough to Feel Guilty, But Not Enough to Be Happy

Ray Ortlund, Sr. to his son, Ray Ortlund, Jr.:

“Listen, son.  Half-hearted Christians are the most miserable people of all.  They know enough to feel guilty, but they haven’t gone far enough with Christ to be happy.  Be wholehearted for him!”

(HT: Pure Church)

Five Ways to Make God Known at Work

John Piper in 1988:

I have in mind at least five things—five ways to make God known through your secular job and all of them are important. When one of them is missing, the witness to the truth of Christ suffers.

1. The excellence of the products or services you render in your job shows the excellence and greatness of God.

2. The standards of integrity you follow at your job show the integrity and holiness of God.

3. The love you show to people in your job shows the love of God.

4. The stewardship of the money you make from your job shows the value of God compared to other things.

5. The verbal testimony you give to the reality of Christ shows the doorway to all these things in your life and their possibility in the lives of others.

Excerpted from "Tentmakers" in Minneapolis.

(HT: Desiring God)

Less Like Scars, More Like Character

It's been a hard year
But I'm climbing out of the rubble
These lessons are hard
Healing changes are subtle
But every day it's

Less like tearing, more like building
Less like captive, more like willing
Less like breakdown, more like surrender
Less like haunting, more like remember


Less like a prison, more like my room
It's less like a casket, more like a womb
Less like dying, more like transcending
Less like fear, less like an ending

And I feel you here
And you're picking up the pieces
Forever faithful
It seemed out of my hands, a bad situation
But you are able
And in your hands the pain and hurt
Look less like scars and more like
Character

By Sara Groves from the album All Right Here

(HT:Josh Harris)

I'm Back!

It has been quite a while since I did any serious blogging. As you all know, I have been very busy with work for the past three months. In addition, I had an exam on August 1st.

But, I must say, the main deterrent to blogging has been the depression of having lost all our photos and videos when our computer crashed. I had saved the photos taken before December 2010 on a disk, but had not gotten around to saving the photos taken subsequently. This has been a terrible loss.

I have begun saving the photos and videos taken after May 2011. I have also uploaded a number of photos on a new Flickr page. Some of the older photos can be seen on the older Flickr page. 

Here is one beautiful photo taken by a student at CMC, that has survived.

I have made an important change at the blog, and would like to know what you think about it.

I have now set things up so that a copy of every post and comment on this blog will be delivered to our gmail inboxes. I am doing this in the hope that each of us will be aware of all that is being posted and be able to particpate more in this blog.

At the rate things are going, I don't think our inboxes are likely to be flooded, but do let me know if you feel that is a concern. I, personally, would love to have my inbox flooded with stuff from each of you!

I am looking forward to blogging more over the next few days while at Delhi.

My thoughts during this vacation!