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

John 11:22 But even now I know that whatever You ask of God , God will give You.” Several years ago, when my older son Edwin was a teenager, he asked me for a basketball hoop (as seen in the picture) at our house as his birthday present, we went shopping and found one at a good deal.   I had it installed next to our driveway, so that our children could play. My son was thrilled about it and continued to enjoy it for several years, until he moved out of the house for college.   Just like my son, don’t you hope that all our requests are answered like this and we too experience the same thrill?   However, when we are praying to our Living God, we do not seem to be getting the answers of what we ask. I am sure you have wondered why!  All the prayers seem to be vanishing in thin air and we seem to be without any peace.   We seem to be missing the thrill that my son obtained. I believe one of the key reasons for that is that we always seem to be approaching God with vague pet

On September 11, 2001, as I was working in my office in New Jersey , my wife called me and said a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center (WTC). I was shocked to hear this news and checked the news websites for more information. As I sat about 35 miles away from WTC my heart was still in New York, since it was just 6 months back that I had moved to work for a firm in New Jersey. The subway under the WTC was part of my daily commute. I used to reach NYC every day around the same time when the two planes hit the Twin Towers . Who knows, I could have been one of the 4000 people who died on 9/11, but that day I was safely sitting far away from this terrible destruction, but  I was in a state of shock and sad to see the destruction of 1000's of lives. As utter destruction came into New York City in just one day, many people were caught by surprise.  But there was one symbol of hope that we all saw in the ruins of the WTC, it was the Ground Zero cross. Couple of years