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In my mind, day was breaking

And around, it was raining.

In my mind, night was falling

And within, it was raining.

IX-892 : I AM CRASHED!!!

For many, it is just another morning, but for me it is the morning that I was waiting for the past three years. It was a love at first sight in 2007 when we met for the first time in my house and a week after that first meeting, we got married. But the joy of living together lasted just for two days since he had to rush back to Dubai on an emergency call from his company. Though our life together lasted only 48 hours, I can tell you that he is the gem of a person. There is not a day or night that has passed without us calling each other. Not a moment in my life I have lived without remembering him. Not only his photograph that lies beneath my pillow tells the depth of my love, but also his love that is filled in my heart and spread through my blood. Yes, and the one whom I loved most in my life…he is coming this morning.

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My parents and his parents have gone to collect him, but I have not. I wanted to make everything perfect here at home to welcome him.

“My beloved is all radiant and ruddy, distinguished among ten thousand.

His head is the finest gold; His locks are wavy,

Black as a raven.

His eyes are like doves, besides springs of water,

Bathed in milk, fitly set.

His cheeks are like beds of spices, Yielding fragrance,

His lips are lilies, distilling liquid myrrh.

His arms are rounded gold, set with jewels

His body is ivory work, encrusted with sapphires.

His legs are alabaster columns, set upon bases of gold

His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as the cedars.

His speech is most sweet, and he is altogether desirable.

This is my beloved and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.”

What more do I want in my life but to see him face to face for one more time and to hug him and tell him…O! dear, it is for you…for you alone that I was waiting!

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Yes, it is all set to welcome him. I think I can relax now for a while as I wait to see him. Let me watch TV for sometime as I keep my ears sharp to hear the voice of our car. But to my shock…

BREAKING NEWS

“An Air India Express aircraft IX-892, carrying more than 160 people, crashed off Bajpe airport near Mangalore. The flight from Dubai overshot the table-top runway at the Mangalore airport this morning and crashed into thick vegetation in the valley below, killing 158 persons on board. Eight passengers had a miraculous escape.

The aircraft overshot the touchdown area of the runway and crossed the spillover area of 90 metres before it crashed into the forest. One of its wings hit the concrete localiser instrument, a navigation aid at the end of the spillover area, and fell down. The plane broke into two after the crash and fire broke out in the fuselage.”

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Oh! God…"May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, 'A baby is born!'

That day--may it turn to darkness; may God above not care about it; may no light shine upon it.

May that night be barren; may no shout of joy be heard in it.

May those who curse days curse that day, those who are ready to rouse Leviathan.

"Why did I not perish at birth, and die as I came from the womb?

ASCENSION: AN ASSENT TOWARDS MISSION

Ascension stands not as an end to Christ’s mission but in continuity with His mission to be continued through the Church, His body. In other words, Ascension reminds us not only of the event of Jesus ascending into the heaven, but also a call for us, His disciples, to descend down to the valley to bear witness.Hence, as a church, let us not waste time looking intently up into the sky in awe. Rather, let us hurriedly walk down to the valley and work toward the extension of His Kingdom as a servant community, for the same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back soon in the same way we have seen Him go into heaven.