Sharon Eappen

      Greetings to you all in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! I consider this an opportunity t o speak to you all from the Word this morning.   So, for our meditation today, let us turn our Bibles to Isaiah 1:17. Let’s Pray: Dear Lord Jesus, I submit myself into your hands. May the words I speak, proclaim life and may the words from my mouth speak to your people. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.   We come every Sunday to worship God. One of the very prominent portions of our liturgy is, “Holy art thou, Oh God”, “Holy art thou Almighty Lord”, “Holy art thou, Immortal Lord”, “Oh Thou that was crucified for us, have mercy on us”. Even as the choir we sing that the Lord is Holy, he is Immortal and he is Almighty. So when we say that God is Holy, what do we mean? Holiness not only implies the purity and sanctity aspects but also the righteousness if God. He is an upright, virteous and righteous God. And when we say that he is a righteous God, we a...

  Let my love for you be peaceful. I do not want it to shatter your glass ceilings or roar oceans worth of might. I want it to knock you, peacefully. Almost like you wanted it.  I do not want it to brush against your cold, numb fingers. No. I will stay away. I have better things to do. But I want it to yearn for me. So everytime we meet, I will stir in you something that will look forward for me. And you will wait for them - those encounters- one heartbeat after another.  You will wait for them as you slowly unveil your stone heart and show me it was the stone-coloured sky. And your clouds were full and waiting to pour. But truly, they were waiting for me all along. And so I let them weep. They bursted open and drenched both you and I.  I found a shelter for both of us so you wouldn't fall sick. I made sure you ate so we wouldn't tire ourselves. I kept you safe. I kept you warm. And out of you came everything that was once dormant. I told you, my love for you would b...