Aastha my Faith

For faith is not a leap out of the everyday but a plunge into its depths."

Hope

 There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

 

 … Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.”

Richard Bach (illusion)

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow them. 

  Louisa May Alcott

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible. 

 

Anonymous

The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Allan K. Chalmers

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

Erik H Eriksson

To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of the most powerful "magic skills" that human beings are capable of. It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom tradition.

Elizabeth Gilbert

And… Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.”

Joy...

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

- Mother teresa

Quotations on "Faith"

Faith’ is different from proof, the later is human; the former is a ‘gift from God’.
-Pascal B.


Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
-St Augustine


Faith is an oasis in the heart that can not be reached by the caravan of thinking.
-K. Gibran


I have one life and one chance to make it count for something…I am free to choose what that something is, and the something I have chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demand—this is not optional—my faith demand that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
-Jimmy Carter


When you have come to the edge of the all light that you know and are about to drop off into darkness of the unknown, faith is, knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
-Patrick Overton


God, grant me serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.
-Reinhold Niebuhr


Everything in life is most fundamentally a gift. And you receive it best by holding it with very open hands.
-Less O’Donovan.

Eating lunch together, hearing the rain patter against the window. There is no even so common place but that…God is present within, always hidden.



Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
–Mother Teresa



Keep your faith alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination and dedication. Remember al things are possible for those who believe.
-Gail Devers.



And my faith tells me …


Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.– Vaclav Havel.


We magnetize into our lives whatever we hold in our thought…that means somehow I have brought myself to this moment for a reason and so have you…


All the persons, all the events in your life are there because you have drawn them there…



Don’t be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you meet again and meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are destined to meet.



I believe God has sent us with a purpose and everybody in his life is given a mission.
There is a test to know if your mission in life is accomplished;
If you are alive it is not...

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Vinny...What's her fault?

What is Vinny's fault that she has to see Christmas without her father.

Vinny is 31/2 months old daughter of Neelam's sister(Neelam is our staff-nurse). Somebody killed her father 5 days before Christmas.

I still remember neelam taking leave for Christmas shopping with her sister.

My silent visit to an orphanage

"Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again and meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are destined to meet".

Sometimes you think that meeting with certain person, time place or situation is first and the last experience of your life but it turns out to be a cascade of beautiful moments, ups and downs, truth and lies, hilarious joys and sharp piercing pains, free laughs and silent tears, burning hopes and serene beliefs...and I believe we all have a mission to perform in life...and if you are alive, your mission is not yet accomplished...

God always gives me signals, be in the form of hiccups, eye flickering, some quotes or anything...(I know scientific reasons for this but still I believe in intuition's) and today when I read that Anupam Kher will star a program to teach underprivileged street children, under his "school of life " project, I finally decided to visit the orphanage..I could not wait for other day as today is very important...

It was a silent visit to absorb each and every moment with kids... accompanying me was my friend, a surgeon at the same charitable hospital, I visit... I took a look at the place, and kids- playing and working, saw a older boy pulling legs of younger one..I talked to him... It is a feeling I can not paint in words...

I came to know that place has got lot of international financial aids, so they are not looking for any financial help...Yes, I believe you can not do everything with money and even wealthiest, strongest person in the world is in the need of true love, care and empathy. So it's not money these kids need, you can do some other things...


So I learnt today...

1. I can celebrate birthdays of kids at my home (with their friends) there.

2. I can celebrate some festivals or special days with them.

3. When my mother in law says to donate something to girl child (kanya) or to invite girl-children for lunch (kanya-bhoj) on "navratri", I can do it happily and more logically to them.

4. I can teach them about health or something I know.

5. I can do their health check-up specially ENT check-up.

6. I can prepare food for them and they will be happy to eat by my hands even if I put too much of red chilli in paneer-paratha in over-enthusiasm...

7. I can take them to parks or museum.

8. I can tell them stories .

9. I can just be there talking and laughing ...and I can be myself...

One last thing just don't go for adoption or any other relation thinking that they are needy and you are doing some great thing to somebody.

And I had my lunch with my mother-in-law after a long time. It was 2:45 pm when I came back home and she was waiting for me keeping everything ready at dining table...She is most amazing and loving lady I know.

"All the person, all the events in your life are there because you have drawn them there... "
God bless all...