A Heart's Thanksgiving first part

"Hi Melissa, check out my blog I think You might enjoy it today!!!,”

greeted  my friend Jim of http://jpweddingphotograpy.blogspot.com Monday night

(11^th of april).

I have been looking forward for his next series of photos since morning...

But instead he gave me a wonderful surprise…

He posted a picture I truly liked  

and  

honoured me with a Versatile Blog Award…

 THANK YOU VERY MUCH JIM!

Since I just passed through the “meme” tradition, let me just share seven blessed trivias about myself ...

One, I love nature and I like gardening.

but what I like most about it is the feel of soil in my hands...  and seeing the plant grow day by day...

then I like lying on the grass on retreat days and looking at the sky by day... and the stars at night...

Two, for fun and mind exercise, I’d check out the etiology of one’s name… and play around words.

Alpana, for example, means delighted (in Sanskrit) and beautiful (Hindu)

Alejandro  (Spanish of Alexander) is defender

Jessica (in Hebrew) is He sees

Jim means “Yahweh may protect” (in Hebrew)

Simran is “gift of God” (Hindu)

my soul sister2, Sancheeta calls me "Meli"...in greek, mel  means sweet... and in arabic if you put i or y at the last, the word becomes "possessive"... for example, habib (beloved)... becomes habibi  (my beloved)... so Meli, means my sweet  (ant :P)

Three, I find studying Hebrew, Chinese and Arabic characters fascinating.

I’m still stuck in contemplating the word busy…

http://www.pinyin.info/chinese/busyness_heart_killing.html

but let's reserve this for another post ;)

Fourth, there was a long line in Sta. Sabina, but God gave me the chance to shake hands with Pope Benedict XVI on Ash Wednesday 2008.

Fifth, I had the opportunity to meet Saif al-Islam personally in one Easter celebration on my second year in Libya.

Sixth, God granted a miracle after I left my missionary ground (we never engaged in proselytism  :P) and  He gifted the church Magdi Allam’s baptism Easter of 2008  (I was there to witness it).

http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=27306

Seventh, my first love is……………………..

  

Finally, the much awaited blogs… it isn’t without difficulty that I chose only seven… i have about a thirty of them right now... and i wish i could give them all credit... i still have to spend time with most of them... 

this time, i give the floor to my list of "pianticelle"...  we have fertile ground in We The Bloggers... and i thank the administrators of this page...

abhisek panda and soul sister, alpana jaiswal ;)

Allow me to introduce them by categories...discover the "why"s in your mind :

stories/fiction/creative writing

if they were compiled as a book, i'll surely buy them:

http://sogyeltobgyel.blogspot.com/ by sonam tobygan

an architecture student originally from bhutan...i read most of his writings in WE HAVE A STORY... so you actually have two choices to read his works...

http://www.farfalladreams.com/ by lisa marie farfalla

it was "farfalla" (butterfly) that initially caught my attention... a person with great intensity... 

she speaks of her dreams which are very much part of our existence...

and she has the gift to decipher her dreams into useful reflections...

feelings...

http://emoversmith.blogspot.com/ by sumit chakraborty

he has earned fans all over the world for his talent... he works well with his emotions translated in beautiful lyrical verses...

travel

http://www.travelnlife.com/ by sheril benedict

i’m looking forward to my adventure in his blog page…

relationships...

http://www.myfriendshipsimran.blogspot.com/ by simran kaur

I fondly call her my little one with our twenty year age gap… she has this deep source of inspiration for she truly comes out with the most inspiring poems in her page… I always ask her if she has indeed felt those things she wrote… ;)

faith and contemplative prayer

http://www.ascendingthehills.blogspot.com/ by jessica  mokrzycki

I read her posts in preparation for prayer… then I go deep through the Words of the Lord in her contemplative experiences…

photography/art style

http://www.anirbansaha.com/ by anirban saha

every artist has his/her own art style… what I like most from him are the stories he creates with his photos…

let's water them and watch them grow by reading their interesting posts ;)

 my deepest gratitude to

.....................................

GOD.