Dry Bones...

The tree u sat under, is now so dry

That hurt u a lot and made u cry

Is that dry tree of so great a value?

To thoroughly shake down the emotions of you?

Of how much more value then, is a dry bone?

Not bothered.. for your heart is of stone?

If their million dry bones give u no pain

‘My Lord, My Lord’, your 1000 prayers in vain

I sowed, yes I did, the hypocrites shout

One sowed, another watered, God grew.. no doubt

‘SoulBurden’ did God call that a Gift?

Isn’t that his order, away don’t v shift

Renewing the dry bones, call that an art

Each of u can, yes, win the father’s heart…

When I say father, u know It’s the God

Do not move farther, ‘come near’says our Lord

Cuz the Harvest is plenty, workers are few

Let’s find the dry bones and make them anew

When the word knocked hard, we gave it a damn!

Let’s win for the Lord, say send me ‘Here I Am’

Living by sight...thro' faith

Michelle: Uumm..How long will it take Doctor?
Dr.Suresh : Its already over dear. Keep smiling...

The naughty Michelle in her school
Michelle was 14 yrs and she was a bright active student…. till the headache hit her academics.She was terribly upset about her 8th standard Half-yearly score and cried about it. She started assuming that she got a serious disease. But it just took a week for her to get back to normal (the naughty one) :)

She had a lot of friends among which was Charu, an emotional friend of hers. Charu was kinda bothered about Michelle’s headache & asked her if she checked with the doctor. Michelle seriously(actually not) said “Yes, The Doctor said I got Brain tumor & ‘m gonna die in few months”. She said this & left for lunch, to her house which was just a street away.

When she was back, she noticed a group around Charu to console her. Hearing Michelle’s entry, everyone turned from the crying Charu to the CAUSE(Michelle :p) and gave an annoyed uniform stare for her stupid story. Michelle admitted her mistake with an innocent embarrassed guilty smile and rushed to Charu to set things straight.

The problems she faced :
Years went by and Michelle passed her Tenth with a good percentage and joined the most strict school in her area, where absenting for more than a day in a year is a mistake. Everyday when the Principal comes for rounds, he checks for the previous day’s absentees and scolds the ones who failed to bring their parents that morning, to explain the reason for the same (one funny yet essential practice).                                       Michelle’s headache was increasing day by day, especially due to the pressure she faced, in the name of regular homework and tests. She also hated the way the students were treated (contradicting the previous school’s friendly teachers). She goes home and lies down due to headache and this resulted in her getting scolding for the next day’s tests. She was discouraged by the staffs. Michelle never copies and so struggled a lot unlike her class mates who were good at looking at neighbour's test paper and managed to pass every test. The headache was followed by puking very often.                                

She couldn’t be regular to school but only once was she questioned by her principal for taking leave. Her mother explained him that Michelle doesn’t take leave without her permission and she is not well these days, he listened to what she said. In spite of being such a rigid hearted man, he just checked for her letter or prescription form that day on. For the 1st time in the history of her and then of the school, Michelle took leave for 30 days on & off and also for a main mid-exam. The difference there is Michelle was awarded 100% regularity prize twice, from her 6th to 10th.As her health was worsening, she was taken to different hospitals, the big Doctors there diagnosed it as Migraine, then muscular strain, bone bent in nose, Sinus and then to eyepower and every test failed, though the medicines relieved her for few hours only. Michelle asked the doctors for a scan permission letter to which they refused saying “Those are not for kids like u”.

Michelle as the excited college girl The prayers of the ones nearby helped her pass her 12th exam with 90% which was again disappointing, as she had promised mum that she would get first mark in atleast a subject. She thought of applying for an improvement but that plan flopped due to everyone’s worry about her headache, which increases gradually when she sits to study.
 She was alright during the long vacation and went for shopping with mum whenever she was bored at home. She prayed to God that he should take care of her future. Just as she had asked, she got into a good college and was so happy about it. Though she was perfectly alright, she wanted to check her head once, before the early mornings to college initiated the problem again. She always felt that Prevention is better than cure. She checked with a nearby dr. &after some hesitation, he gave the letter.

The unforgettable events of her life:Michelle went to the centre and while waiting for her turn, she be-friended the nurse there. The next day when she came to collect the report, she advised the nurse to smile and explained her what a waste of time it is, for her mum to come and collect the report.

                                   She got back home & was bored. Left to the dr. who checked the report and called her mum. He asked her to look at certain things and she looked. She was asked if she was missing coordination and her mum said she plays instruments and dances too. Never has she missed coordination.Then Michelle was made to sit outside and she wasn’t much bothered still. Dr. said about the cyst in her head. She told him to give her tablets and cure it to which he refused saying it usually cannot be cured by tablets and so a small surgery was required.
He patiently told her twice, that she should not goto college and she refused to listen, as she forgot the terrible suffering she once had. The third time, dr. was little louder than the previous 2 times and told her that the cyst is like a thing which can cause her faint somewhere. He added a question “Dint you faint in the recent past?” she was confused about dr.’s fuss and said “Yes, I did… but just once and now I’m perfectly alrite. But just to respect your words, I will take leave for a day and we will work things out."
Right from the moment she was back home, she puked everything that she ate & drank. Her parents were very upset and wanted to check with the doctor. The Dr. told her to admit Michelle ASAP and there were lot of chaos in Michelle’s mother’s mind. Michelle was given trips and taken back home with tablets to arrest the vomiting till the surgery date.Her parents checked everywhere for the best NeuroSurgeon.
                                         Those days were unforgettable for Michelle’s mum as she was being scared by everyone around. She was little shocked when she heard her mum telling her neighbor these words “ It would just take a moment for the very big cyst that is close to the cerebellum to burst and Michelle would be blind then. She would be in coma forever” She cotinued “I still want to thank God for making her feel the urge of going for a scan.”Michelle felt “ If I had known this during school days, I would have felt inferior,sick and would not have been allowed to study for a long, after my surgery. Good that it started only in the first few days of my college” Saying this, she thanked God and prayed a prayer… “God If you have some work(purpose) to be done thro’ me, its your own responsibility to do it with a seeing Michelle or a blind one”. Those words from her spirit comforted her. Whenever Michelle was visited by others, she said “I’m alright, but Dr. feels that its good to operate it out :)“

Smiles in a surgery ward!!! In one way, she liked the break and she was waking up late in the morning but on the other hand, she was missing the new friends in college. She was soon admitted in the Hospital and to her surprise God did not leave her as such. He had sent angels there in the form of her childhood friend’s cousin (Joe-a kid who had come for an eye problem). These 2 were the youngest ones in the surgery ward and every time different nurses came in, they would see Joe and Michelle playing and would confirm if they were the patients there.The nurses were very kind and friendly to them and became everyone’s favorite there, in just 2 days (Pre-surgery period). They kept playing cards and talking all school stories. They would be waiting for the clock to rang 6 o clock so that her lot of friends would come to meet them. She found this as a nice chance to meet them after a long and kept chatting with them nicely till the nurses entered with a stretcher and told others to leave the place.
She was taken to the Operation theatre with her eyes searching for her fav. sweet oldest dr. There he stood, with the mask asking “Enna ma, are you scared?” to which Michelle thought for a while, got confused n said with a giggle “Doctor., why would I ? you got anesthesia rite?” He said “Yeah yeah I do, a strong one”.Michelle confidently replied “Aprom enna (then wat)? You’ve your anesthesia, I’ve my JESUS” and smiled. They put their knife on her head and she was able to feel it. She was about to shout “Doctor… stop, I still can feel, the anesthesia is not strong enough. When her words were drowning in slow motion,… she just said

Michelle: Uumm..How long will it take Doctor?

Dr: Its already over dear. Keep smiling

She was put in the ICU for few more hours and her fingers were tied so that she doesn’t try to remove the oxygen supplier which was actually connected to her throat and hurts terribly. When the doctor came after a long, she cried bitterly showing him the sign that she wanted it to be removed. She was moved to the normal ward and her post-surgery effects were of course very bad but she managed to overcome everything with God by her side.

The reBorn MichelleNone in her college believed nor do any of her colleagues know/believe that she was once, a patient :)
                                She did a final scan and things were perfectly alright. She did not miss meeting her 2 doctors once a year,.. not to consult for the medicines but to give sweets, for clearing all the exams and then for getting a job. That’s when he revealed the fact “ You were in a critical state when you came for the scan., good that you did not delay. It was a major surgery. As it was in your cerebellum, your eyes were at complete risk. If it was in your cerebral part, your life would’ve been at risk”. That is when she got reminded of the words mum said to the Dr few hrs after the surgery. "more than 150 gms of tumor liquid??" She was shocked for a moment & then realized how her 8th standard's lie turned out to become true.

                ...and then dr, told her to go for a final scan to ensure everything is alright before she joins work. She was so grateful to the dr. or not scaring her at all and for being so caring.When she was on her way to fix an appointment did she meet a brother who prayed for her & said “The one who healed your skin problem in your childhood, healed you even now”.
 She was taken aback by those words. How wonderful & amazing it is to know, that your childhood incident was remembered by the God who has millions of ppl to be bothered about, when she herself forgot her childhood skin problem. she agreed to the words and had firm faith and still lives a very happy and peaceful healthy life.

Was she anyway affected , by this pain she underwent? She did not lose anything,Instead.. She had learnt to empathize; she now knows the pain when someone is hurt emotionally, physically or morally.
                         

She could see clearly…she could walk… she passed her College with distinction, got placed in the very first interview too.. she worked and is still working and…

Above all, right from her 11th std (the time she accepted The God) she had & still has the peace at heart.

The other DOCTOR whom she met everyday did it all... :)                                     

… she would like to thank that universal DR. for all of these, without ceasing., especially for Sept 13th, the day, the time 12:00 am to 7:30 am(quite a big surgery) which asked her mum if Michelle would be seeing or not.

PS: Mail me & I'l help u in meeting her :) but wen u see, remember that her eyesight is God's GIFT :)

In the Potter's hands...

Asking for a fish but receiving a fish net was indeed a pain,
But hrs of patient learning were leading to yrs of gain…
Everything I sought for, demanded my straining,
I ain’t much moulded if not for such a training…

I’m in the potter’s hand, he at his best,
I'm not a keyed toy, no not just a pup…

Clay with the potter undergoes the worst,

Just to become a Royal designed cup…

If I'm to be thankful for anything,
I would strive to be so for every little thing…

...cuz No father gives a Snake for a Fish,
nor Stone for a hunger that longs for a bread...
Abide in the heavenly dad who grants our wish,
till the last drop of Blood did my Savior shed...



                        

                         

Agape!!

"Love,They said..'Nothing does it cost'
yet my heart longed for it till my breath would last
Show me TRUE Love...my soul most yearned,
this cry in my pulse rate was from my birth
They promised to love but seldom were concerned :(
"Did I fail anytime? Did I in my death?"
...uttered in pain,the compassionate HE,
None other than my(The) MAJESTY!!

Thanking him for The AGAPE(unconditional love) thats unchanging forever..."

My all in all :)

Could there be a better fragrance,
than the aroma in your presence?
Could my eyes go brighter,
than they do when they look at you? 

Could there be a better touch, than that takes away ALL my pain?
Could my ears find more pleasure, in a sound apart from your voice? 
Could my lips get sweeter than it does, when I say your name? 
Could there be a better friend, than you to teach me what Agape is?
Could my heart not go racing,
for you who lived its meaning?
Could there be someone,
who can be my everything?

....I could proclaim today that I sought and found NOTHING, that is better than you, my Savior... 
My all in all

Friend...

Crawled so slow the silent clouds...
so bright and so pure;
Alas! one turned dark at once..
and lost its complete lure;

Confused, the dry earth watching this..
Troubled by the darkness around;
Chill... It felt a breezy hiss...
Drizzled and healed the forsaken ground;

Friend are you the cloud in my life?
Born as the purest,not for a wife;
Clumsy you looked then,with spits n tear...
Is that cause you thought I'm so DEAR?

Sinless SACRIFICE...
...Lord, are u the ONE?
Friend you gave yourself
...and said IT IS DONE!