BARREN TO BLESSED

Barren women they muttered her name

Depressed and hurt she lived in shame

Her rival provoked her till she cried

Pain and disgrace she could not hide

Her neighbors asked her, "What was wrong?

To have a baby, does it take that long?"

Who is this living God you talk about?

Her faith in Him they made her doubt

She woke up each night and bitterly wept
Her husband consoled her as she slept

In deep anguish she couldn't eat or drink

Her misery was all that she could think

In despair she cried out and prayed,

"God, to your work this child I trade"

She poured out her heart in tears

There on the alter she laid her fears

God stooped down from heaven and heard her cry

He said, "My promise to you I will not defy"

"She's Hannah", the blessed women they say

"She's you! cause your Samuel is on the way"

- Grace Xavier

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WHEN MY EYES LOOKS AT YOURS

The strongest relationships are thick with arguments. When I say “fighting,” I'm not talking about full-blown physical encounters. I'm not talking about throwing plates and breaking skulls. I simply mean “arguing”: two intelligent people finding themselves in the midst of healthy debate.

Like all couples sometimes my husband and I argue about things. We have our fair share of reasons why we stand by our opinion. Normally when the argument gets heated, we don’t look at each other. We are so upset that we can barely look into each other’s eyes. But after a considerable amount of time, if at all we happen see each other in the eyes we start smiling at each other. And trust me, this happens all the time. This is how our argument ends because we can’t stop smiling at each other.

There’s something about looking into each other’s eyes.You can look into someone eyes only if you are comfortable with them or if you really like them. Even Bryan Adams song lyrics say "Look into my eyes, you will see what you mean to me..."(this song just came to my mind...out of context...ignore...lol) Sometimes you look into someone’s eyes because you have compassion on them.

Yesterday while I was travelling to work, I was reading Psalm 123. Verse 2 made me stop and ponder on it. It says, “As the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a female slave look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the LORD our God, till He shows us His mercy”. I have read Psalm 123 before but had never noticed that there is a verse like this.

Sometimes when I need something so bad from my dad, I keep looking at him till I get it. I will make sure I make that sad face like that of a little child wanting something from daddy. The same way the Psalmist must have felt while writing this verse. “So our eyes look to the LORD our God, till He shows us His mercy”. I want to be like that. I want my eyes to look to the Lord till He shows His mercy on me. I do not want to look at my situation, look at the mountains or look at the facts but look to Him. I can so relate to the lyrics of this song by Miley Cyrus:

When the waves are flooding the shore

And I can't find my way home anymore

That's when I, I

I look at you

When I look at you

I see forgiveness

I see the truth

You love me for who I am

Like the stars hold the moon

Right there where they belong

And I know I'm not alone

Yeah when my world is falling apart

When there's no light

To break up the dark

That's when I, I

I look at you

“God’s mercy is so great that you may sooner drain the sea of its water, or deprive the sun of its light, or make space too narrow, than diminish the great mercy of God.” - Charles Spurgeon

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