Every day Blessings

Everyday I am thriving for holiness. I need to be holy in my mind, body and soul. I need to demonstrate holiness in whatever I do, wherever I go, whatever I speak and whomsoever I meet. I keep on praying to the Lord to give me this holiness every moment in my life. This has worked almost well. But at times I feel that only prayers are not enough to attain this holiness. There could be something else that is very essential. Jesus fall during the way to calvary was a perfect example on this. Jesus fell down three times but he was supported by people around him. One was mother mary, Either was Joseph of Arimetya, and the third was Veronica. I think this help is required and very essential in my Journey to holiness. We need people around us to help us when we are falling down. This could be our parents, our elders, our spouses, our friends..anyone who can help us in the path of holiness. 

PRIDE ---- Ah, a mother of all SINS. Whatever SINS you take up, ultimately all would lead to this single sin of PRIDE. It is a long long struggle for me with this SIN. Too difficult to overcome unless I am protected with the power of the SPIRIT. Even though, I wake up in the morning with a desire tom kill this SIN today, but I end up being in this SIN many a times in the day. It could be simple instances like show off, praising yourself, over confident about self, feeling proud of your personal possessions, thinking others as inferior towards you, not considering the feelings of others, being dominant in the conversations and meetings....the list goes endless... And the sad part is that you end up in this SIN without getting noticed. You tell ties, others can find it out. You don't obey your parents, you will be notices. You bribe, you are noticed. But when you feel PRIDE in your heart, it is not notices by anyone. Only the ONE above can see your heart. In that way, this is also...

I used to wonder when my kids ( 4 Year Old , 2 Year Old) play with my smart phone. They would have observed me working on the phone for couple of times and now it looks like they are experts on my phone. How fast are these children getting accustomed to new technologies. This also pointed me to another side of parenting. How fast are these kids picking up from what their parents do. I am sure mobile phones are completely a new entity for a kid. Unless he/she observes and learn, he will not be able to understand the device. Look at their observation power. They grab the thing so fast that even by 50 year old mother struggles for months to study about the same smart phone. How does all these happen ? Kids do have tremendous observation skills and most of their learning happens through observing. They keenly observe each and every thing happening around them and it gets stored in their brain very quickly. This is because the brain is very new and all the learning are new learning's...