Megha Rai

Those who work their land will have abundant food,but those who chase fantasies have no sense: proverbs 12:11 I love fantasy. It's a delight for me to watch a Disney movie with my kid on weekends, to pick up a fantasy novel and read it and imagine the characters playing right in front of me. I am visually creative so a good book or a disney animation fascinates me. While there is nothing wrong in watching these fliks ( that teaches us so much about courage and faith), but I realised that spending too much of your emotions and wanting a fairy tale life for yourself is something which is not from God.  Let's face the truth.  Life is not fairy tale. Everything is dependent on all the hard work and good work that we put for the kingdom of god. We reap what we sow. While it's important to have some of those qualities that a princess character teaches us like kindness, faith, courage, to get the fruit of these qualities we have to practice them in real world.  However if we cha...

"For in him we live and move and exist. As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring." Acts of the Apostles 17:28 The year 2020 has left all of us devastated in one or the other way. While the global pandemic infected numbers are increasing day by day with no end date and no vaccine, there are many of us who are being impacted indirectly. Some of us are safe and healthy ( praise lord for that) but have lost our jobs due to economic slowdown, have been feeling discouraged and lonely, plans that we made are now on hold, increased monotony due to locked up in our homes. None of us is untouched and few of us are asking where is lord in all of this. From past few days I am also wondering the same when lord give me this verse to meditate on. "For in him we live, we move and we exist". He is not some distant one whom you cannot reach. He is into your very existence.  He is with you when you move, when you think, when you sip coffee from your mug. He is watchi...

“Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Matthew 11:28 Evenings are suppose to be our resting time. Evening is suppose to be calm. However, at my home evening is a busy affair. Usually I have piles of work in the evening. Right from folding of the laundry, home schooling my kid, working on some personal projects and preparing tea and snacks for my family members. Evening just like day feels like running. I didn't know my husband notices much about this busy schedule of mine because he has never been verbal about it. But yesterday, my husband offered me evening rest. While he offered me to go and watch a movie with my kid ( along with a packet of popcorns), he also offered to do all the evening chores for me ( ofcourse I felt guilty like a nice wife for him doing everything). Just like we need physical rest and we appreciate if someone offers us that kind of rest once in a while, we should never ignore our spiritual rest that only our ...

" Be still and know I am the lord" Stillness does not come easy to many of us. We live in a culture which calls us to be continuously running proving and multi tasking in order to prove our worth. It's hard to stop and catch a breath for yourself in a world which is chaotic at every stage. I am people driven. I have a long formed habit to do things in a people pleasing way. I compromise and always try to prove to people that I am worthy of their acceptance. I work hard long stretch and yet by the end of the day feels like unaccomplished and always a failure. I know sisters I am not the only one. This is both an encouragement and heart breaking to know that I am not alone in this. Heart breaking because I don't want this to my fellow siaters. Encouraging because I am not the only one struggling in this area. While there is nothing wrong in doing things for others. Rather Bible tells us always to keep others interests above our own. The same Bible also tells us that we ...