Stop Carrying the Load Yourself..!
“I cannot carry this anymore, Bob,” said a reader who phoned me. Her voice sounded tired. Not the tiredness that disappears after eight hours of sleep, but the tiredness that enters the heart and quietly unpacks its suitcase. “What are you carrying?” I asked. She told me. It was quite…
Just Speak the Word…!
I watched politicians and activists gathering around the tiny Christian community in India, offering sympathy, support and some splendid speeches. “We are with you,” they declared. I smiled, because politicians who say they are with you usually mean they hope you will soon be with them, preferably inside a polling…
The God They Cannot Contain..!
Why should anybody be frightened of Christians? We are barely 2.3 percent of India’s population. We do not have the numbers to dominate elections. We do not have armies marching behind us. Most of our institutions are schools, hospitals, homes for the aged and centres caring for those whom society…
Wherever You Go..!
Since we are holidaying as a family near Lake Naomi in the Poconos, where my daughter has a home in the pine woods, I became curious about its name. The lake was created in 1895 when members of the Miller family built a dam across Tunkhannock Creek. But it was…
Carry Your Mountain to the Valley…!
As I sit atop the Poconos Mountains, surrounded by tall trees, quiet paths and a little brook that seems to whisper rather than speak, I feel a peace that I wish I could pack into my suitcase. Perhaps I could fold it carefully between two shirts, place happiness beside my…
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.