Living a fulfilling life as a Lean Christian in a Fat World ©

The other day I was reading a Business Week article about the list of the world’s most successful immigrants.  They ranged from Google’s co-founder to Warren Buffet’s blue eyed boy from India. Their success seemed to inspire me. As I continued reading, I thought to myself who does not want to be successful? Everybody wants to win! Coming to America or to a new country is not easy. On top of that making a success in the new country as an immigrant is another dimension. As an immigrant to USA for twenty one years, I can totally relate to the struggles that an immigrant faces in a new country. I am sure that these successful immigrants worked hard against all odds.  These guys must be smart, intelligent and most importantly had key opportunities knock on their career doors at the right time.  Unfortunately for many immigrants or even local natives, such career success is like a distant star in the sky. However, have you considered the challenges for the land tha...

We have all seen how electrical equipment’s get their power to operate, that is, when they are connected to the power socket through an electric cable. Let’s take the example of a laptop.  When the laptop operates only on its battery then with time and use its life will start deteriorating. However, when the laptop is connected to the electric outlet on the wall through an electric cable, then the laptop’s productivity is always at 100%.  As long as the cable is connected between the laptop and the electric outlet, the laptop receives full power and it is able fully open up all its different programs, without fail. Otherwise, we will keep seeing a pop up sign that keeps telling us how much longer we can stay connected or stop working.    Our life on earth is just like the laptop. Inevitably, we always seem to be trying to operate as if we are only on battery power.  We try to do things with our own intellect, logic, understanding and worldly concerns, but...

Tom Hanks in the movie Forest Gump says “ Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get .” Life’s challenges begin from the time we are little. At elementary school, many of us are forced to compete for good grades. As we grow older we practice hard to make into sports, robotics and debate teams and some of us even work harder to get a date for a school dance. In this struggle, we go through cycles of success & failure, joy & sadness, excitement & disappointment.  After we graduate we become happy with the assumption that there are no more grades, but we soon realize that competition has just increased two or three fold. Two month vacations are a thing of the past – the hard reality of life kicks in.  In Jeremiah 18 we see God taking the prophet Jeremiah to a potter’s house. He sees the potter taking the clay that was “marred” or broken and making it into another vessel that seemed best to him. The prophet understands that our li...