The voice of truth!

So I haven’t blogged in ages, had some quality family and friends time over the past few weeks and it has just been so blessed. Thank you Jesus for this wonderful life and the beautiful and amazing people You have given me.

Family, I mean, they are always there, your encouragers but sometimes your worst critics, and we get annoyed by them and what not but at the end of the day, I guess we can’t help but realize that they’re the real thing. Believe me, I have seen enough fake smiles and fake love for a lifetime. Family provides the true, stable foundation in your life.

Friends, they are like the sunshine – you don’t always see the sun shining but when you need some light, they all around you making sure you don’t stumble. They make your day brighter bit by bit every day.

So I completed one more year in my life this month and again thankful to God, for He has changed my life. A year back today, literally to the day, I was on the floor in tears calling out to God asking Him what happened to my life and how it went so wrong. At that point, I had no idea what was coming. I just knew that life as I knew it was changing forever.

Today, I am happier than I have ever been, healthier than I have been in a long long long time and I know it is all God’s grace. God’s birthday gift took a year in the make and it’s a life of joy and peace in His ways. And I know there are so much more in store and I am just rededicating myself to it all and letting my life fall into place in a way only He can plan. I well and truly know that all that happened was for our best, mine and Mr’s and so we will both be happier without the other.

To end of, just want to share how God sometimes in those rare occasions gives an answer for the seemingly irrelevant things, but the answer just affirms your faith because you know it was God, the Voice of Truth.

On my birthday, I read of a teenager in US from my native place in India who went missing. Seeing his name and visiting his sister’s profile, I seemed to relate them as Indian Christians settled in US. My time in US, I met many such families and when it hit me that it was a kid like from one of those families, it struck a chord. I searched online and followed for 2-3 days and was so saddened thinking about the family who would no doubt be in distress to know their child’s whereabouts.

It truly was haunting me for a few weeks and finally one night I just prayed that God would make a way for the kid to find a way back to his family and take away their worry. And just as I prayed that, I thought I heard a voice telling me ‘He has passed away, they will find his body tomorrow, pray for the family’. Now I was taken aback because I heard “tomorrow” and there is no reason my mind could have made that up. But I went ahead and prayed for the family.

The next day I got late at work so couldn’t follow up on the news. But the morning after I browsed online and saw the news, they had found the boy the day before. Sadly, it seems he got lost in the woods and died of hypothermia, scary and just so tragic. And I was surprised and little stunned. If you read this, please take a moment and pray for all those families who face such losses. There are only a few you hear about but no doubt, plenty who go through this terrible pain. You can read more about this story here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2566300/Southern-Illinois-University-students-body-discovered-frozen-woods-one-week-went-missing.html

So the thought in my head then was, God has never given me such details before in His responses. His answers always seemed to be vague. But I guess God needed to guide my prayers and so He did. Amazing, how God responds exactly how and when He should. Humbled.

God bless you.