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A small nondescript town with wonderful old monuments and temples...Orrcha ...nearby its more famous sister town of Jhansi...worth a lazy-day long visit:

My recent travel to Jhansi  took me to a monument with a brush of poetry; and literally at that. How often do you find a poem written at the very entry step of an old monument. Written about the valiant queen Rani Lakhmi Bai of Jhansi, the fort there reminiscences her short lifetime (died at 29 fighting on a horseback) of valor and bravery. Here are pictures of the poem and the fort itself. Entrance Jhansi fort the poem close up Poem about Queen Lakshmibai a temple in the fort a view of the city from the fort the high point of the story the height where the jump took place

Taken during my walks during the afternoons and evenings.....

"We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the growth of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail. Never believe that the so-called random events of life are anything less than God’s appointed order. Be ready to discover His divine designs anywhere and everywhere." Oswald Chambers in "My utmost for His highest". As my fingers strike the keyboard, my thoughts zoom out across time and space. For a moment I see myself, sitting in this place, here and now, as an ever receding small speck. As I look at the bigger picture, there appear all the places I have been to and will go to, all the people I have known and will know and all the events in and around my life; past, present and future. These are not random events, places and people but a skillful master design. Even my solitary life has been carved out uniquely, purposefully, skillfully .  I am awestruck. I am humbled. I am thankful.  I fit cozily with all who are around; like t...

The recent marriage seminar I attended was an eye-opener! It revealed facts about marriage I had not imagined. While many aspects were discussed and the sessions were enriching...what took the cake was this statement..."my marriage was not made for my happiness!" While I will write the details another time...I am giving this blog over to someone who expresses the thought a wee bit better than I possibly can! I am sharing this link for a read, and I hope it will get you thinking, believing and living out your marriage which is not to make you happy! http://www.viralnova.com/marriage-is-not-for-you/  

this is an enchanting song of a dark-dark night... where moonless yet lighted by a thousand little flames which light up for a while but not through the night; and melody sifts like the wafting wind transporting me to a land of long ago...   there, I left my childhood among the desolate hills there, tied to a thread is some fond memory   in me, tonight there is light, even in the darkest corners, for the Light has come within, and lighted my soul.   yet, I long for this Light, to shine there too, when no matter the truant moon be amiss, there is the flood of light of the everlasting sun! and the song that was once sung in pain, is mine to sing in joy and eternal gain.    

"People have sought to carry out God’s orders through a shortcut of their own. God’s way is always the way of suffering— the way of the “long road home.”" Oswald Chambers  in "My utmost for His highest." I did not know, why He let me be, the man I never wanted to be..... I thought it was gonna be easy, but that is not what he had kept for me.   Sometimes, it was desperation, sometimes just fear and shame, I was looking for a respite, but rescue never came.   He was moulding, He was making, while all I said was "give" I wanted a quick way to get there.. but He led me the long road home.   On the road, I saw my face in the mirror, and it was not what I had imagined it would be, there was an unslightly creature, and that was exactly me!   On the road, I hurt the ones I thought I loved the most, perhaps it was His way, to teach me what to Him, I had cost.   On the road, I learnt ...