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God created the waters

Happy New Year to YOU!

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and listen to the free-flowing music

of the waterfall and be enriched by it.

Have I thanked the Lord enough for creating water?

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"Millions of water drops

drops of water millions of drops

Falling down the rocks

Millions of water drops

Glittering in the sun Shining like pearls

Millions of water drops

Ending as a river

Finding way to ocean

Millions of water drops

Creating childrens happiness

Laughter and joyfullness

Millions of water drops

Soon will tide reach

White long shores

Millions of water drops

Animating Waves into forming caves

Millions of water drops

splittering from above

till reaching top of the hill

Millions of water drops

Without them no sound

No whispers of the living

Millions of water drops

Watch the clearness

From crest to earth

Millions of water drops

For tribe’s best Beware of waste

Millions of water drops

Treasured should they be

As belonging to all humanity."

(Poem ...> Courtesy: Moncita Monoi Angel, Switzerland)

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New Year 2009

MAY THE FEAST OF THE MOTHER OF GOD USHER IN THE NEW YEAR, 2009!

Let the year, 2009 be a NEW YEAR TO ALL OF US! Why NEW YEAR? Will I be a NEW Person in 2009? Will the members of my family be NEW? Will the members of my community be in anyway different? Will my friends be NEW? Will my life-situations be NEW in 2009? ************************ Well, my life-situations may not change in 2009...

I may catch myself behaving the same old way in the new year...

My family members may not become all of a sudden new...

Members of my community may not behave in any way new... My friends may not have new faces in 2009... My fortunes may not change in the new year... ================== But, ... My out look on life can change for the better...

It is possible for me to change my attitudes in a life-affirming way...

My attitudes to the members of my family and friends can change for the better...

The way I see them can change in a radical manner... The way I think and reason can change in a life- affirming way... If I can say "no" to my life-denying passions and clingings, then there is the possibility that everything becomes bathed in the sunshine of new life and loving relationships...

It is not the world that has to change;

but the world in me that has to change...

If that happens, then,

the divine light will shine on everything,

on every event, and on every person! ***********************

Shall we take the "risk"

of allowing the all-loving God

to break into us

with His compassionate face in 2009.

*********************** May all of us see a "New Heaven and a New earth" in 2009!

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Last Day of 2008

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and listen to the music...

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The dance of the School Children

of Kodaikanal in South India.

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May the peace of Jesus enlighten your life!

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Doing or saying something which will light a smile on someone we meet today will be a meaningful way of celebrating/sharing the experience of "Emmanuel" on the last day of the year, 2008.

Let us never forget to thank the Lord for the wonders he has worked in our lives in the year, 2008.

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Honouring the elders

Dance-form is a human expression

of praising, reverencing and glorifying God!

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"Clap your hands, all peoples!

Shout to God with loud songs of joy!

Sing praises to God, sing praises!

Sing praises to our King, sing praises!

For God is the King of all the earth;

sing praises with a psalm." (Psalm 47)

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Do I praise the New Born babe Jesus with a psalm?

Let me speak to Him in the language I know, express my feelings of joy and sorrow

and say: "Lord I praise you with the feeling that I experience just now."

Believe that you have offered to the Babe of Bethlehem a wonderful,

personal psalm of your life!

May the peace and joy of "Emmanuel"

be with you during this Christmas-season!

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I thank the Lord for you, my friend!