Lord, Abide with Me..!
Thank God for hymn writers! In the year gone by I have sought solace from the hymns of yore, playing them again and again, and the hymn I must have sung, listened to and embraced, more than a hundred times was, ‘Abide With Me.’ Fickle are the affections of men…
A Reason for Annoyances and Delays..!
I pressed the horn, stomped on the accelerator, cursed the driver in the next car and nearly shouted at the traffic policeman. “What’s the matter dad?” my daughter asked. “I hate being late,” I grumbled. “D’you know of all the people whose lives were saved because they were late?” “After…
Let’s ask Dad..!
Two years ago, when my elder one’s twin toddlers visited our home and got stuck in India because of the imposed lockdown, I spent the day humming nursery rhymes and other baby tunes which they listened to and which automatically became part of our melody experience. This time, I found…
A Humble Spirit..!
As a child, something that used to puzzle me was that if Jesus was God, why was it He was born in a humble cattle shed? Why couldn’t he have been born in a palace? Later, in that lowly birth, I realized what humility really is. I like the story…
Be Still..!
I guess it happens to all of us, we get so caught up with rushing and pushing and getting things done that suddenly we find we’re not just pooped but also feeling a little depressed. It happened to me few weeks ago, when caught in the whirlpool called life I…
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.