Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I…
About Grief
C.S. Lewis likens the death of a beloved to an amputation, and I never realized how fitting a description it was until now. Like an amputation, you learn to live with the grief and the loss but your whole way…
Mirari’s Celebration of Life Service
For our first wedding anniversary last year, Vinayak planned a surprise trip for us. The first stop was a cemetery. He took me to a high hill where you could see the hundreds of grave markers, neatly organized into perfect…
Mirari’s Birth Story
What do you do when God answers your prayers but not in the way you expected? Or when he answers some prayers and not others? What do you do when it feels like you were brought to the very edge…
Hidden Blessings of Delivering in a Pandemic
Delivering during coronavirus has been something plenty of moms have lamented about already, but delivering a baby you will have to say goodbye to during coronavirus had its own complications and griefs as well. Because of covid, I was only…
Behind the Name
Names have always held much significance to me. Whether it’s the names parents give to their children, the names of pets, or the names of stuffed animals, names tell you something unique about the giver of the name and the…
Dance Between Joy and Sorrow
It was Holy Week this week, and it is a time when Christians reflect on the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. It is a time of both sorrow & joy – sorrow for the brokenness, death, and sin that we…
Extravagant Love
In college, whenever the discussion of engagement rings came up and what kind the girls wanted, I’d reply saying that I didn’t want a diamond ring. I’d always found them a bit too expensive and excessive to have. Why spend…
Our Story – Her Perspective
5 years ago, after our first hangout just 3 days before, Vinayak asked me where I thought this was going, and all I could say was “um, I think you’re cool”. I was intrigued by him and wanted to get…
Becoming a person of depth
Electronic communication has radically changed our lives…We can all be reached all the time. There never needs to be any silence and solitude in our lives. And so we end up as good people, but as people who are not…
