Narayan Vaman Tilak [1862 - 1919]
Narayan Vaman Tilak [1862 - 1919]
Tilak was one of the five eminent poets known as the Panch Kavi in Maharashtra. He was a Marathi poet who was born into a high-caste Brahmin family in Ratnagiri District.
Growing up Tilak was deeply influenced by his grandfather and mother and had a great desire to learn Sanskrit. From a young age he was…
Live Wire
“I felt like I had touched a live wire,” said professor Holly Ordway, describing her reaction to John Donne’s majestic poem “Holy Sonnet 14.” There’s something happening in this poetry, she thought. I wonder what it is. Ordway recalls it as the moment her previously atheistic worldview allowed for the possibility of the supernatural. Eventually she would believe in the transforming reality of the resurrected Christ.
Touching a live wire—that must have been how Peter, James, and John felt on the day Jesus took them to a mountaintop, where they witnessed a dramatic transformation. Jesus’s “clothes became dazzling white” (Mark 9:3) and Elijah and…
The Ghost Bride: A match made in heaven…or hell?
The Ghost Bride: A match made in heaven…or hell?
Photo taken from hype
Netflix Malaysia is abuzz at the moment with the supernatural drama mystery romance, The Ghost Bride. Released in January 2020…
Fully Known
“You shouldn’t be here right now. Someone up there was looking out for you,” the tow truck driver told my mother after he had pulled her car from the edge of a steep mountain ravine and studied the tire tracks leading up to the wreck. Mom was pregnant with me at the time. As I grew, she often recounted the story of how God saved both our lives that day, and she assured me that God valued me even before I was born.
None of us escape our omniscient (all-knowing) Creator’s notice. Over 2,500 years ago He told the prophet Jeremiah, “Before…
Single-Hearted Prayer
A Call to Leave
As a young woman, I imagined myself married to my high school sweetheart—until we broke up. My future yawned emptily before me and I struggled with what to do with my life. At last I sensed God leading me to serve Him by serving others and enrolled in seminary. Then the reality crashed through that I’d be moving away from my roots, friends, and family. In order to respond to God’s call, I had to leave.
Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee when He saw Peter and his brother Andrew casting nets into the sea, fishing for a living.…
Being Late Rather Than Never
Saying I’m sorry is better late than never saying it at all. Saying I love you is better said on…
Preparing For An Empty Nest
Empty-nest syndrome has established itself as a real dimension of mid-life crisis. Life after children is now recognized as another…
Dying A Thousand Deaths
The most effective parents die a thousand deaths. Sometimes it is the result of being embarrassed by the actions of…
A Goal and a Purpose
In 2018, endurance athlete Colin O’Brady took a walk that had never been taken before. Pulling a supply sled behind him, O’Brady trekked across Antarctica entirely alone—a total of 932 miles in 54 days. It was a momentous journey of dedication and courage.
Commenting on his time alone with the ice, the cold, and the daunting distance, O’Brady said, “I was locked in a deep flow state (fully immersed in the endeavor) the entire time, equally focused on the end goal, while allowing my mind to recount the profound lessons of this journey.”
For those of us who have put our faith…
