My Last few days in the year 2008!!!

Yes we have just got a couple of days to complete this Year.I really wanted to thank GOD for what are all HE hath done in my Life.As we do it as a year end appraisal,I started rating how GOD lead me through out this Year.It was so amazing when I look back my days in this Year.
I was counting my blessings on and on…it was many in number.And there are no words for me to Proclaim that HE is still an Amazing GOD.Yes ,I remember the Verse in the Bible “Does the Clay say to the potter,’What are you making?”(Isaiah 45: 9).Yes I was like a clay and HE made me into a good shape this year and I believe that HE will use me as per his will in the forthcoming year.I thank the Lord GOD almighty for the wonderful things that he has done in my life.
As his verse says “You Crown the Year with bounty” (Psalm 65: 11).Yes that’s absloutley true..
Another New Year has been given in my Life..
Another Year to live in this world..
Another set of Resolutions to work on..
To live each day with relish…
To daily grow and try to be the Best…
So Friends lets gear up to face the new challenges,new oppurtunities.Lets tune ourselves in these last days to face the New year..Have a Blessed Year ahead!!!!:)

Are we slipping?

"Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip." (Hebrews 2:1)

It's happened to all of us. We get a little of the Word of God under our spiritual belts. We have a few victories. Our lives are going great for the first time in years. Then suddenly we slip and it all falls apart. We find ourselves having to start all over again. Hebrews was written to a people like that. They made such great spiritual progress that they got to the place where they should have been teachers. Then they slipped back so much, they needed baby food again. (See Hebrews 5:12.)What caused them to fall so far? They let other things get in the way of their faith. They let the promises of God slip, so they slipped.That's happened to a multitude of believers in the last several years."Well, Brother Copeland," they said, "we're tired of that faith stuff." Or, "We just don't have time to spend that much time in the Word." They turned their attention away from the promises of God. It's not that they didn't believe them anymore. It's just that they directed their attention to other things. They let their Word level drop and since low Word level equals low faith level, they soon began suffering defeat in areas where they once had victory.Don't let that happen to you.

When things are going well, don't just ride the tide of God's blessing. Dig deeper into what God has for you. Give more earnest heed to the promises of God. Concentrate on moving ahead, on becoming so strong in the Spirit you can not only get your own needs met, you can meet others' needs as well! Remember: Low Word Level = Low Faith Level = SlipDon't get so busy enjoying today's victory that tomorrow ends up in defeat. Look into the things you've learned. Give the Word more of your attention -- not less. Keep moving from faith to faith. Instead of trying to trip you up, Satan and his bunch will be crying, "Oh no, that faith man is coming after us again!"

A BIG GOD

This is a story about a little girl who, on the way home from church, turned to her mother and said, "Mommy, the Preacher's sermon this morning confused me."The mother said, "Oh! Why is that?The girl replied, "Well, he said that God is bigger than we are. Is that true?""Yes, that's true," the mother replied."He also said that God lives within us. Is that true too?"Again the mother replied, "Yes.""Well," said the girl. "If God is bigger than us and He lives in us,wouldn't He show through?"Read this again.........Think.....

If you believe that GOD is within you,are you sure that HE is showing through you.If not you may have to change the way you live.Ask GOD to reveal through you.!!!

Landed to the place where i wanted to:)

Its a funny thing that happened to me but the way it happened i just loved and admired it:).Last friday i was exhausted with my work and suddenly decided , why dont i go for shopping this evening?. I saw my friend online i just buzzed her about the plan but in my mind i was thinking of a particular place to go but didnt tell my friend about it.My friend immediately obliged for the plan but for different place and even i'm convinced since i haven't planned anything of what i should purchase..:)

I wanted to go out thats my intention and i had a shop in my mind that i wanted to go.As regular it wasn't in the planned time:) since we scuttle with our work.Finally we both boarded the bus and once we got into it, my friend had fallen asleep and i was reading Sydney Sheldons "IF tomorrow Comes" .I was deep into my reading since i love all Sydney Sheldons collections :) and i didnt even realised that i m in bus.

Suddenly something creeps in and i felt oh GOD i'm in bus and i was looking around outside to find the place where we were in but couldnt track it out.Then i realized that i missed the stop where self and my friend needed to get down.Immediatley i woke up my friend and smiled at her saying we missed the stop.My friend suddenly got up from sleep and we smiled each other and got down at the next stop.We really didnt know where we are.I was thinking and looking at the way where we should go.

But my friend saw the trees by the side of the road with all colors of leaves.Yes its a fall time so trees are turning into their own colors which was wonderful for sight seeing.She started that hey we will go and take some snaps.I was like , what?? now snaps!!!!!.And we were making fun of each other.My friend said if i happened to see you reading another Sydney Sheldon ..hmmm...and was smiling at me..we were like thrilled at that point.

I told her ,first let us find out the route and we were about to leave from the place and suddenly i turned up and looked a board where i find the shop name where i was thinking to go.With much excitement i said hey here is the shop that i was thinking to go.We laughed at each other and went into the shop and we shopped very happily. I was like happier to the core and told my friend see i landed to the place where i should go without my knowledge. That was a wonderful start for the weekend!!!!!!!! :)

My Desires !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well ! We all have desires in our hearts and its of different types and needs .But if we don’t discern what we want from ourselves and what we stand for we will live submissively and unfulfilled.

At this point I remember the quotes of the Mahatma Gandhi “Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you.”

Yes that’s absolutely true and I have experienced this blessing in my life. I can categorize people who takes life as it comes and there are people who strive for their desires to be fulfilled. My hand always waves high for the second category. Our thoughts and desires should be very sturdy. I can say thoughts are the first stepping stone which will become a desire. Aristotle states “Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.” Enormously I cling to this point. Simplicity and clarity should be our mindset to obtain anything. But we have to give a thought to this. A division of people (we can call compromising people) says ‘ anyways what should happen it should happen for me. And they never bother about their desires even if its not fulfilled. These people are the ones who ll take life as it comes. I certainly don’t go for this category. GOD made Adam and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. So HE gave all the rights and freedom to make the choices .In addition he commanded the man” You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil” - Gen 2 :16,17.

GOD gave all the freedom to make choices and if our choices and desires are within the boundary of Eden, we will get what we want or desire. Okay how to know the boundary of our life?? Simple ,to know the boundaries we have to walk closer with GOD and certainly HE will reveal HIS will or plan for you. When we live according to the verse we will not be perplexed.

“ Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.”. Yes I ‘m a dreamer always and I can say that’s the best way to make the master plan to obtain the desires. Certainly what I dreamt of I attained the goal.

Even when answers slowly unwind to fulfill the desires ;in my heart I see GOD is preparing a way because I still believe in God’s Faithfulness:)

What is the implication of my Life???

For the past few weeks I speculate some sort of standpoint towards my life. It’s seems to be so weird for me!!!!!!!.The question which was running in my mind is " What is the implication of my Life ? "I have never gone to this level very seriously thinking about Life, my future!

Still couldn’t track what made me to lead to this level. Is that due to loneliness? Or worthless expectations from people? Or didn’t I know to give the right priorities towards life? Or did my expectation level about me goes higher than what I am? I was terribly confused!?Its human propensity that our mind scuttle at some point or some situations. Guess I have reached that point.ofcourse I felt discontent with so many aspects like when I faced adversities, failures. But I have never been in those zones for a longer time. But now wondering what made me to sustain for a longer period of time and now this phase made me to dwell for a longer time.We may have times when what we think we want is what we think God wants. However, what we should want is only to do God's will.Now realized what I should want ..Still I flunked in all my trails which I dealt with.But I strongly believe every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.I understand that to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication.All things are possible for those who believe.
I have read these lines from one of the articles with the specification from Bible which really consoles me a lot
“He performeth the thing that is appointed for me” (Job. 23:14).“Thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass” (Job. 14:5).

Disappointment—His appointment,”
“No good thing will He withhold,”
From denials oft we gather
Treasures of His love untold;
Well He knows each broken purpose Leads to fuller, deeper trust,
And the end of all His dealingsProves our God is wise and just.

I have known to learn the rules of the game and and now i have to play better than anyone else.
So friends When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.Guess its time for my mystified tide to turn.!!

Disappointment!!!!

One fair twilight and that was an exciting day for each one since its friday the last working day for the week. But I had gone astray with my mood when I was returning back to my abode... It’s just a 7 minutes walk from my workplace to my domicile. Those 7 minutes I realized how the speed of our mind goes really faster than the air.
The temperature was below freezing but the thoughts of mine was really scorching.Yep I was recollecting quickly all my works which I did in the last year 2007. I had this thought since I was really in serious assessment of my performance. The root cause of this sudden thought is due to some discontent with the criticism.
Finally with loads of knock over I reached my residence. With much fidgety even without refreshing I switched on my laptop just to amend my mind towards something else but really I couldn’t do so. I was lost in my own world diving into some nostalgia to see my parents..Then I called up my pal tried to restrain not to divulge my annoyance but I couldn’t procure for a long time and without my knowledge was on track revealing my snag to him. Certainly felt to a level of comfortable zone but suddenly I do not want to impart anymore so I hanged up my call.
The next moment which originate in my mind is the following statement somewhere I read in the past " The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire;the size of your dream ; and how you handle disappointment along the way ".
A feeling of dissatisfaction results when your expectations are not realized; But I find it helpful to look at disappointment as something we do to ourselves. I say this because it seems to arise out of our own expectations or demands about how we think the world should be or how we think people should act. In other words, I look at "disappointment" as an inaccurate view of reality. Looking at it this way could help us accept that we didn't really understand things as well as we thought I did and that our expectations were unrealistic.
By looking at it this way it is easier for us to take responsibility for it and thus to reduce the negative feelings which usually accompany it. Instead of using the word "disappointed," I sometimes try to substitute the word "disillusioned." This helps remind me that I had created an illusion in my own mind about. Calling something an illusion suggests that my interpretation of reality was inaccurate. So when things don't go the way I expected or wanted them to go, it seems to help if I take the perspective that I created a false image of reality in my mind and I need to quickly adjust myself to actual reality. The sooner I do this the faster I get over the negative feeling of what I used to call disappointment. Yes I have made up my mind and I m out of my morose mood and geared up for my weekend :)
I suppose when you read my blog it will bring back some sort of disappointments that you faced in your life too.But face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you… Hope that you really acquired which is needed for you from my blog.. And that one fair day is not someother day…its only today then immediately started with my blogging :)!!!!

My blissful & thwarting Jiffy in Life !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Consistently I qualified for mutually blissful and thwarting event in every vicinity of my Life...Since it’s a long way let me chunk and post it …

My School days…
I was an above average student in school but people used to pass on me as a Studious person but actually it’s not… I was never concerned about my studies. At times I used to feel bad about myself when it happened to see my class toppers getting reputation for their performance. But it will not last for a long time…
I always used to scuttle at last minute preparation which an average student normally does…Nevertheless my marks won’t go so stumpy which doesn’t make me to ponder to go to the next level...But my dad ‘s Prospect about me was very high…I really want to say about my dad here…He is a endowment for my Life from my GOD… I possess a high level of esteem about my dad!!!
My dad was my only Best friend at School days…I never hesitate to talk any matters with my dad and he does the same way to me… I always astonished to see how my dad handles situations even at worse case…There were lots of wonderful moments during my school days.. I used to travel to school nearly 45 to 1 hour up and down.. I was a fun loving person at childhood days even now the same : )..Since it was a long travel to my school daily my dad arranged for my commuting and he sought me to go in a bus where lots of college and school students used to take it.. And very soon I became a core childish student in the squad..Even for one day if I didn’t go in that bus, GOD!!!! I still can’t imagine how my senior frnds feel so bad for me!!! It was good actually to steal several hearts at a very short span of time…I was the most mischievous girl in the bus !!!!..
When I was plunked in 8th standard my dad left to Pune to pursue his higher studies for 2 and half years ..Those days are ghastly days for me..I missed my dad a lot cannot express those in words..But then my dad guided me from long distance which I hated it .. But those period gave me a chance to get closer to my mom..Really speaking at that time only I realized my mom’s love for me..

So as the days passed on I felt the character change in me… I turned out to be a serious person, so reserved, and even timid I can say.. So finally I reached 12th standard.. Till my twelfth I never bothered to seek GOD seriously…I completed my 12 th though with good marks I guess so...But all my school days I was put up in only one school so didn’t had a chance to know about the other schools ambiance.. I m very much proud to say that I did my schoolings in St.John’s Vestry Anglo Indian Hr.sec School..Okay My schooldays are over...
See you all in the next blog of my memorable college days!!!! : )

Its about me!!!

Hey u have reached the alcove of Justina Jausline Stephen... There s nothing so special to pen down my thoughts about myself but still u wanna know me who I m so just a quick intro of mine…I was born and brought up at India and to be more specific I belong to southern part of India…ie Tamilnadu.. No wonder me too belong to the dire crowd..!!!!Software throng… Yes I am a Software Professional Currently staying in US for my deputation.


Hoping to stay here for a long time… I am a person ardent to Gospel music and an amateur singer and a wannable nomad… I am Person of shooting the breeze always wanna have fun... Easy to mingle but yet hard to understand… Most of my leisure time I would spend on internet and music.. US life treating me to be a fanatic consumer of these two..

I used to write prose regularly when I was at India now struggling real hard to find time for this but still trying to make it up… I have come to this echelon purely because of GOD s grace.. He has been so faithful and the lover of my soul… And I always cling on to A.P.J ‘s quote “Dreams is not what i see in my sleep but its the thing which doesn't let me to Sleep”. Yes I belong to this genus..Above all there is a Power that is my Jesus who guides me and fulfills all my aspires..