Flow of words

This is a chapter from my latest book called (G)rains (o)f san(d)s. Learn more about the book here . Thank you God for the flowers. I bought a blue daze flowering plant for my mom when I went out to walk one day. It adds some colour to the nature in the yard. It is beautiful. I was told that blue flowers are rare. My friend says that blue is relatively rare in nature due to chemical and physical challenges in producing this color in living organisms. Nothing exists completely on its own. Plants depend on insects and other creatures, while those creatures depend on plants and their flowers. There is an interconnectedness in creation that reminds me that God is intentional. Flowers are beautiful but so is everything else if we really consider things with an open mind. What is beauty? What makes some things more beautiful than others? They say that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Beauty is subjective. My friend says that what I am talking about is the perceptual mind where meaning ...

This is a chapter from my latest book called (G)rains (o)f san(d)s. Learn more about the book here . Thank you God for failure. Thank you for the good days and the bad days. Thank you for the journey. There are no failures, only lessons learnt. Better to try and fail than fail to try. For this chapter I made a bunch of notes and pieced them together. If mosaic was a style of writing, this would be it for me. Weirdly enough I am not afraid of failure as much as I am afraid of success. I want to live an ordinary and simple life. Much of what society deems as success is really the rat race. I guess I do not have a problem with success but the mainstream definitions of success. What does failure teach us? Failure teaches us to never give up because success can be right around the corner. Define your own definition of success. Enjoy the journey. Focus on learning. Focus on gaining experience. Focus on becoming wise. Today I learnt how a pearl is formed. A pearl forms when an oyster responds...

This is a chapter from my latest book called (G)rains (o)f san(d)s. Learn more about the book here . Thank you God for wisdom. Age brings wisdom. At least it should. Everyday we are learning. Everyday we are growing. What is the wisest thing ever said? I think one of the wisest things ever said is something my grandfather told my mother which is, "Dont make nothing a problem." Let me digest what was meant by this. Life happens. Fix what we can. Let go of what we cannot fix. Fix what is within our control. Get help when needed. Let go and let God. There are no problems only solutions waiting to be found and lessons waiting to be learnt. Every problem has a solution. Do not look at the problem, look at the solution. Do not see the problem, see the solution. What defines the situation is not the problem but the solution. We get to choose how we react to what we face in life. They say that laughter is the best medicine. If we do not laugh we will cry. So sometimes wisdom comes wi...

This is a chapter from my latest book called (G)rains (o)f san(d)s. Learn more about the book here . Thank you God for love. Love is the simple ingredient for a beautiful life. Love is plentiful. Love is free. Love for others what you love for yourself. God is love. What do we really mean by God is love? Love is God's nature. Love is God's essence. Love conquers all. If we know love, we know God. To live is to love. To love is to live. Love is the answer. Love is the solution to all our problems. Love is a reflection of God. The word love can be found in the phrase, (l)eaves (o)f hea(ve)n. The imagery I have is heaven being littered with trees of love. Both the words leaves and heaven have eave as the center. Remove Eve and we are left with A for Adam. Which has me thinking, do we know if Adam and Eve are going back to heaven? Most probably. What we know is that Adam and Eve leaves heaven for Earth and mankind is born. The first love story of sorts. Tree of love reminds me of s...

This is a chapter from my latest book called (G)rains (o)f san(d)s. Learn more about the book here . Thank you God for humility. Until the day of judgement we are all equal. On the day of judgement we will be separated into the different levels of heaven and God forbid hell. None can judge us besides God. While we are alive, no human knows who is better than who in the sight of God. We are to wish each other well and treat each other with respect and kindness. We are all sinners. We just sin differently. We are all imperfect. We all have faults. We all have good ways. We are all capable of love. We are all products of circumstances. Humility is understanding all of this. It is recognizing that I am not God. That I do not know another person's entire story. That I am not qualified to place myself above anyone else. That the same God who sees my faults sees theirs. That the same mercy I ask for myself is mercy I should be willing to extend to others. At some points life will humble y...

This is a chapter from my latest book called (G)rains (o)f san(d)s. Learn more about the book here . Thank you God for the rain. It has just started raining here. I can hear the pitter patter on the roof. I can see the dimmed light through the window. The greenery in the yard is enjoying every chance of rain. The days have been extra hot this year. They say we are experiencing a super el nino in Trinidad. Given this every bit of rainfall feels special. Water is life. Without water there can be no life as we know it. Rain is part of the water cycle. Rain falling is like therapy. A calm state comes over my body. My mind relaxes. I appreciate my home and my shelter to keep me dry and safe. The rain is mentioned as a sign from God in the Quran and how it gives life to a lifeless land. The rain complements the sunshine as part of nature's balance. Sometimes we have to endure storms and floods and even droughts but there are lessons in these events. Community spirit is heightened and our...

This is a chapter from my latest book called (G)rains (o)f san(d)s. Learn more about the book here . Thank you God for courage. Courage to keep going when we have fallen. Courage to fight for what we want. Courage to do the right things. Courage to face a broken world. It is funny how we can easily use a word and still have to turn to the dictionary for a proper definition. To me courage is finding the strength to do something but let us see what the dictionary says. Courage is defined as the ability to do something that frightens one; bravery. To me, God is the source of all courage. With God anything is possible. God strengthens us through difficult circumstances. We must not forget to thank God for giving us the courage to do the things that frighten us. All our fears belong to God. Let God handle what frightens us. Fear God alone. Surrender our fears to God. In Islam we are taught that courage is not only about physical strength but also about moral and spiritual strength. Being st...