Sharon Eappen

I finally broke my 16 year old custom and this is what happened. I remember my parents telling me that they had joined Interserve the year I was born and apart from being called the millennium baby, I was often nicknamed the Interserve baby. I remember Sophy telling me that our first friends were Jason and Joash, I remember the water fights we had, the alphabet bracelets we used to make during the children's sessions and how we dreaded learning those memory verses because we were a bunch of kids who met only 5 days a year. But like the wind, time flew and I soon started to listen and participate in whatever was being taught. I learned mostly with the skits and little games that were played to make us remember something and loved pondering over some of the questions that were asked. Over the years I grew, spirituality and socially. Each year I grew more attached to the environment and people. It was the perfect time to introspect about the year that was about to end and ...

Genre: Christianity And then, when all the ingredients of the food tasted bland, the Master Chef added a little salt and lo taste came in. "You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled by men." Mathew 5:13 These were the words of Jesus just after the Beatitudes. But why salt? Why not sugar spice or chicken masala? The answer is simple- salt adds flavour. You might not add sugar in spicy food but you will definitely add salt in sweet food fully knowing that salt activates your taste buds and it's highly impossible to regain saltiness once lost. Putting the same thing into aspect, we all are the living salt of the earth . We are to add flavour and life wherever we might be and are to activate the good in everything we see. We are to trigger justice where there is injustice, try to give pleasure where there is pain, comfort when disturbed, peace wh...