Light with the Darkness

I forget life is fleeting,

I forget life has no meaning,

So, why am I afraid! 

All the choice that are around me,

All the sadness that surrounds me,

But it holds no meaning and it will pass away.

The joys that life holds

The passions it may show

Escape through the crack of time

Between these palms of mine. 

And then I see a darkness

And it covers me whole,

And within these blackened walls,

I find there is still hope. 

For if there be a darkness

Then there must surely be a light

Which is hiding in this darkness,

But it will be surely mine.

Written by

Dinagaran Mahendran

He Loves You

God is Love and He loves you. 

It doesn't matter what you think or say. God loves you and He always will for eternity. You may not understand why and how. You may wonder how can He love us when we've done nothing for Him. We've not even made any effort to know Him. It doesn't matter. He chose you from even before you were conceived in your mother's womb and He even knows the number of hair on your head. He cares so much for and about you. Why are you still fighting against His love for you? 

All you need to do is give in, surrender. He will take care of it all. He does not promise you a trouble free path. He just promises to carry you through it all. He does not promise you a life like a bed of roses but He promises you peace and happiness that you've never experienced. He promises you a life after death with Him. He promises to be your constant companion as long as you don't push Him away. He promises to be your father, mother, brother, sister, friend, and love. He promises never to hurt you as mortals do. 

All He wants you to do is to accept him as your Lord and savior. Just say a prayer asking for forgiveness for all your sins and invite Jesus into your heart. God Bless you.

The Road Less Travelled

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"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both"

-Robert Frost

There is always more than one choice for any decision that we have to make in our lives. But, there is always only one right way to any situation or decision. If life is like a road—like the metaphor used in The Road Not Taken (the poem mentioned above)— then it is not just about you choosing a road, but it is about choosing the right road. 

For example, just yesterday I took a day off from office. I was not sick or anything. I just had an exam that day evening and I wanted to prepare for it. So when I called office to tell them that I won’t be coming, I didn’t know what to say. What do you think I should have done??? Told them that I am going to stay at home and study? (Are you crazy???). Of course I didn’t tell them that. I chose to lie. I told them that I was sick and couldn’t make it to office. Now that was not right was it? In this case I chose the wrong road. In this poem there are two types of roads, one that is frequented by most human beings (broad road) and the one that is less travelled (narrow road).

The first road is the broad road with flowering trees on either side. This road is very pleasing to the eye. Let’s see, I could have just said I have an exam and can’t come to office but I didn’t did I? I chose to take the easier way out. I chose the path that is easy to enter, the path of lie. 

Let us try to find out a little more about this road shall we? On this road ‘everything’ is right. You can go clubbing, drinking, flirting, and smoking. These activities in most ways bring people together. Not only do these activities bring people together they also go hand in hand. You get to know a lot of people when you club, not necessarily good friendship. You also get to interact with a lot people when you smoke or drink. Haven’t you heard of the term ‘drinking buddies’ or ‘smoking buddy’. Are they really good friends? Do they do any good to or for you??? No way!!! The more you want to see them the more you go to pubs… the more you go to pubs the more you drink (obviously!!!). Well that is the broad way. If you take this route all your life you will end up in cancer (that was obvious right??) but more importantly as per the scriptures you will end up in HELL.

The second road is the narrow road, which can be missed by a few people in their excitement at spotting the easy way out of a situation. This is unfortunately the road that I should have taken. This road is not very sociable; some people may just be rude to you because of your righteousness. You may seem a little or a teeny tiny bit more than a little uptight sometimes when saying NO. Sometimes people may just be the other road and they may make fun of you for being truthful. 

For example, if you have cheated on your exam and even without being caught you confess to your teacher then other students may make fun of you. But confessing is the right thing to do. Certain other times you may feel like you are the only one walking this path and you may just feel lonely, for example, you don’t want to go to the pub your friends are going to. These times you just have to remember that you are on the right side and the Spirit of God (Holy Spirit) is right there with you to give you support to move on in the right path. Well we all know where this roads leads to right???? Of course it is HEAVEN.

So if I make one wrong choice does that mean I am branded to go to HELL for life??? Of course not! You have a chance to take the wrong route every time there is a choice in your life. Let’s see, yesterday I started off with a lie about my coming to office late (I told my project manager that I came late because of traffic, whereas I actually woke up late…) but I felt so guilty about it that I confessed and asked forgiveness to Jesus. So from being on the wrong side I moved to the right side.

This happens for every single decision that you make. But there is a small rule. You can’t keep repeating the same mistaking over and over again. Well think about it… won’t you get mad if someone does the same mistake over and over again? It’s the same thing with God. You can’t just keep taking him for granted now can you?

So there is something like a bridge between broad and narrow roads. This bridge appears every time you make a choice. So if you are on the narrow road and you make the wrong choice, you go to the broad way and vice versa. It is always best to choose the narrow road than the broad road. May be your very stubborn boss gives you a report today and tells you he wants it yesterday (my my my… isn’t that something we are all familiar with) don’t lie to him about not finishing the report. Tackle the issue, take the bull by its horn let him know that you need more time. May be your friend is inviting you to dinner with someone you don’t’ want to see. Don’t lie to her just tell her you don’t want to come. Be straight forward.

Now think about this. Where are you now and which way do you want to go??

Something that I learnt

It has been a long time since I blogged… well now I am back…

I just wanted to let all the people out there know that it is not enough to just love your neighbor as yourself as it says in the bible. You need to do to other as you would have them do to you… Matthew 7:10.

This is important because in life you are never alone. You always have somebody who is with you… maybe its your parents, your friends, your loved ones, your husband, your children, whoever it is you love them. When you love a person you except few things from them. I guess it is basically because you give them a lot and you expect the same from them… but do you treat others be it your friends or your enemies with the same respect that you expect from them?? This should be practiced on people you meet on the road or those who are your friends… this should be practiced in all areas of your life..

Alternatively, this will always be successful only if you don't expect anything from anybody. Though you give you should never expect anything from anybody… be it your family or friends. This is a teaching that I am trying to follow in my life and hoping it would be useful for all of you out there too...

Multiple faces

I seem to identify myself with confusion a lot nowadays. There is just too much deception in this world for a person to handle. People change themselves so easily to get out of a tough situation. It is becoming harder than usual to come to a conclusion about a person. In contradiction to my previous blog... it is not right to change yourself... at least not too often. Changes get to a point where people cannot understand who you are anymore.
People I see and interact with change themselves so easily when they feel that they are doing something wrong to hurt the other person. That is of course the right type of change. But this change has to be consistent. It has to be for real. It should not be only during the time when you have done something wrong. You should not change yourself when the offended one forgives you... The change should be forever. When it is not forever... it means you are just deceive the other person. For example, I know this girl who's husband shouts at her in public, humiliates her in front of his friends and threatens to hit her if she talks back to him. When she tells him that she is not able to handle this, she needs to get out of this marriage, he changes... He treats her like she is the queen of the world. If this change is for real then she should forgive him that is what you would be thinking of now. But on the contrary, this change is not for real... It is just so that she can forgive him... once forgiven he goes back to treating her like a piece of garbage rather a better comparison will be carpet (used when it has to get the dirt out of your shoe but other wise it is not cared about).
It is not right to have multiple personalities, it is hard enough for a people to understand a person for who they are.. but if you show them different personalities that are a total contradiction to each other what will people do???

Heaven and Hell

If the devil reminds you of your past,
Just remind him of his future.
But if you have not cleansed yourself of your past,
Be assured of having tea with the devil in HELL!!

You may not get all the comfort you want in this life, but just trust in God, and He'll settle things. If you are saved, on the day you die, you will have experienced your last moment of suffering . If you are lost (NoT sAvEd), on the day you die, you will have experienced your last moment of pleasure

Losing Identity...

There are times when a person might prefer something different, something you thought you hate… some things you have never thought possible to do…
But those are the things that people don’t expect you to like. They have put you in this mould and they say to themselves, “this is what she is like, this is what she will do… you cannot expect anything more from her… cos that is her… she is never romantic or surprising… she is the same old boring person…”
You one day wake up and find yourself boring and think about changing yourself not for others but for yourself… cos you want to be different… you want to think different… You don’t want ppl to mould you into a figurine and then when you have changed, you realize that ppl don’t accept you for who you are anymore… You know why??? It is because they thought you were something and then you have now turned into something else and that is too much for them to handle… cos now they have to find out once again who you are… what you like and everything… they don’t want change in them and hence don’t accept change in others…
Some may say that when you change you lose your identity. But isn’t your identity supposed to identify you??? When those characters that you think identifies you don’t identify you anymore how can it be your identity… don’t you think it is better for your identity to change than live in a misconception of who you are to the world. Isn’t it better to change yourself to suit you than to change yourself to suit what others have identified you to be???