by Penninah Abigail Menezes | Dec 31, 2021 | Scribbles and Confessions
A slow Sunday afternoon—the last one of this year. We are here again at the end of an infamously eventful year and the beginning of another, hopefully better, season. Usually, it is a time of pomp, fireworks and new resolutions (or, sometimes, a repeat of the old) but...
by Sandy Samuel Jerome | Dec 24, 2021 | Scribbles and Confessions
They say, everything changes when you lose someone you love. Surely, it does. Trust me, I know. This year, the advent season has been very special to my family as it brought a renewed hope to us. If you have been following our stories on Scribbles and Confessions,...
by Jason Varghese | Dec 17, 2021 | Scribbles and Confessions
2021—a year of refining. That is what my wife Michelle and I call it. A season of breaking, melting, strengthening, and molding. It wasn’t pleasant; there was pain, resistance and a lot of uncertainty. But at the end, we hit silver. Did you know that silver melts at...
by Sandy Samuel Jerome | Dec 10, 2021 | Scribbles and Confessions
Clamour—a hundred little broken pieces shattered on the floor. A panic-stricken seven-year-old—frozen, blanked-out, fretting about the consequences. A moment of silence—a lot of clarity, a certain calm. The other day, my son Judah dropped a valuable handpicked...
by Sandy Samuel Jerome | Nov 26, 2021 | Scribbles and Confessions
Freedom from disturbance; a state or period free of war or war has ended—this is the definition of ‘PEACE’ as per the Oxford Dictionary. While in a worldly sense, the definition may be apt, there is a difference when it comes to its biblical meaning. According to the...
by Oshin Daniell | Nov 19, 2021 | Scribbles and Confessions
“Come let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker.”-Psalm 95:6 Growing up, I often saw my father kneeling down in prayer—unaffected by what was happening around, or people. The frequency of these prayers increased during the time when my...
