Grish's blog

Sometimes, good and beautiful beginnings dissolve to make way for stronger, more mature growth that can go the distance.  The interim is not always pretty, but it’s not a reason for discouragement. It’s all part of the process. That’s exactly what hope is–a process. A roller coaster, even. True hope is much grittier than the sweet, fluffy and frilly thing we imagine it to be. It’s tired and uncertain. This is what I’m telling myself right now.  When things are no longer picture-perfect or seem to be regressing, don’t lose hope.  What looks bleak one day may be making way for a beautiful, new growth in your life that takes you into your next stage of maturity. If you’re in a dark, confusing, don’t lose hope, friend. We may not see the resolution from where we stand now, but we can be sure that just as in nature, the things taking place under the surface and just out of our view will continue to propel us toward progress and maturity. #HOPESH

When you're a kid thinking about how it's going to be when you get older, you have a lot of big dreams and expectations. You know exactly how you're going to be as an adult and what your fabulous life will be like. Then one day you wake up and reality comes crashing down like a structurally unsound construction site, but it's not all bad. Well, it could be worse. Well, there's wine. So, that's something. When we put our hopes in this world, we always miss the  MUCH MORE  our gracious God wants to give us! Oh, if only we had lower expectations of others and higher expectations of Us.

The past few months went by in such a speed that it was a bit of shock for me when I realised that the year is almost over now and my last blog post was in April. I think that ever since I took to active blogging there has never been such a huge gap in my blogging course. Of course, there are many reasons for my not blogging as frequently as I would have loved to. But, heart in heart I was conscious of the fact that my blog was neglected. So, here I am at the start, trying to keep up with the pace of time. Life during these past months was hectic and full of happenings. I huvisited many places, saw and did many new things, actively pursued my long forgotten hobby of birdwatching - all the while trying hard to balance work and family. Sometimes life was tough, but thankfully, I never buckled under pressure for long. No matter what the challenges were, I was able to overcome them eventually. As I look back at these months, I feel happy for all that I could achieve. I think I have be