Drawing Open the Curtain..!
Monsoon weather isn’t the most cheerful weather! It certainly isn’t, and persistent rain, along with rumbling thunder adds to a feeling of impending doom. My daughter who studied in Seattle told me even there, skies are overcast most of the time, and it is one place where psychiatrists and psychologists…
Stop, just Stop!
This happened last year when the lockdown was first imposed. Everybody stayed at home, and many lost their jobs. But one day I had to drive to the electricity department because of a lost bill, and this was when it happened. It’s something that even now makes me feel terrible…
What A Friend..!
What a friend we have in Jesus, All our sins and griefs to bear! What a privilege to carry Everything to God in prayer! Oh, what peace we often forfeit, Oh, what needless pain we bear, All because we do not carry Everything to God in prayer! Have we trials…
Pointing Beauty to a Despairing World..!
Even as musicians carefully wrap their instruments in satin felt, and place them inside cases, I urge them to bring them out. In a despairing world, it is art and creativity that shows beauty that will soon be here again, loveliness, that will bring hope into a despairing world. There…
Smiling, Despite an Alcoholic Husband..!
She was standing alone, inside the badly lit store, sipping a soft drink. It was late in the evening. “Nothing cold at home?” I joked, knowing she lived just above the shop. “He locked the fridge,” she said. “I’m sorry,” I said, as she sipped the remainder of the drink…
Robert Clements is a newspaper columnist and writes a daily column, which has graced the pages of over 60 newspapers and magazines, from a daily column in the Khaleej Times, Dubai, the Morning Star, London, and in nearly every state in India, from The Statesman in Kolkata, to the Kashmir Times in Kashmir to the Trinity Mirror in Chennai.