Wrestling with Scripture

One of the most beautiful gifts in life is to have someone sincerely pray for you. I have been so blessed to have had people who prayed for me when I needed it the most and I wanted to share those examples to demonstrate the power of prayers. I might have already shared it in other blogs but I can go on repeating the goodness of God in my life. My hope through this blog is that reading it, you might get down on your knees and pray for that person who needs your prayers. To start with, my dear mother. Well she always prayed for us, however there is this one incident that always stuck with me. We had a party, after which me and my sister got very ill from food poisoning when we were really young. I remember I was in the third standard at the time and I ended up being the worst affected. Both me and my sis were rushed to the hospital. However, I refused to eat anything because I couldn't keep anything down and that kept worsening my condition. It had been almost 5 days and I just kept

Very often we call ourselves Christians because we go to mass on Sunday or say our prayers at home. Some may even say they are Christian because they believe in God. However is that enough? Are we called, to simply believe? We often want a Christianity that is easy and feel weighed down by the commandments, codes of conduct, obligations and almost anything that forces us to change our ways. We forget that we are called to walk on a narrow path that isn't easy and sometimes very lonely because not many will walk with us. In the Old Testament we read that God saved his people and lead them to the Promised Land. However, he didn't let them enter until he gave them a head to toe makeover. Since they had been living in sin in Egypt which was full of idolatry and immoral behavior, he gave them commandments, codes of moral conduct, he asked them to change how they ate, how they dressed and how they worshiped all for one purpose. So that it was ingrained in them that they were chosen b