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Flow

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1  Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,  2  As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!  3  When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.  4  For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.  The Prophet Isaiah 64. 8th Century BC The river flows through the hills. The hills that I call my home. Darjeeling. Darjeeling; that is cold, shutdown, in despair. Forgotten, but by her own children. Over sixty days of shut down; with little food, less hope and much sadness. Democracy worships the god of majority. So do events around the world a...

Waves

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37 Soon a violent windstorm came up, and the waves were breaking over the boat, so that it was being swamped.  38 But   Jesus   was   in   the   stern,   sleeping   on   the   cushion.   So   they woke   Him   and   said,   “Teacher, don’t You care   that   we are perishing?”   39 Then Jesus got up and rebuked the wind and the sea. “Silence!” He commanded. “Be still!” And the wind died down, and it was perfectly calm. Mark 4 35  And the same day, when the even was come, he saith unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side.  That was some thirty years ago, when I got on with Jesus on the boat to the unknown, and He said; "let us pass over unto the other side". Thirty years is a long journey to any "other side". Especially when at one point you realize, that you are only half way there. The still waters of the great sea that I am in, becomes still no more. As ...