The dusky sky turned brighter little later at the horizon giving hope for a sunny day. As I watched this, I also noticed a fading rainbow, which I could not capture with my camera in the dim light! I felt that I needed more photographic skills to capture such rare sights!

The sky is open to us giving us different images of the weather and everything else scientists gather from it. The sky revels to us the mood of nature and how it changes several times during the day.  

It is a pointer to the mood changes we experience in our day to day life. 

While returning after a funeral service of a family member, Anna and I recapitulated what we heard about him, spoken by people who knew him well in the recent years. His laughter was spoken about by almost everyone. Anna and I having witnessed it on several occasions, we too felt that it was a reflection of joy and contentment he experienced within. From a difficult circumstance of suffering the loss of an untimely demise of his mother and sister, he lived to build up a family that was talked about effusively for their hospitality and generosity in the eulogy offered to him.  He saw others in need compassionately and opened his hands freely to support them. His was a life lived experiencing pain, but triumphing over it to reflect joy and hope. Th speakers attributed this to his habit reading the scripture. One speaker mentioned that there were fifteen Bibles in his study in different versions and languages, most of them underlined with notes written in hand by him. 

Joy is not just a smile. Joy is the interior mood that reflects the consciousness of a godly orientation. 

We drove back home in the evening after a day of listening to the journey paths of a person who lived his life well, relationally and mindfully! 

What the presbyter of his church and his son said about him were moving. The presbyter spoke of him as one for whom 'prayer was a habit'. His son spoke of him as as a 'loving , giving and forgiving' father!

Our interior mood is what defines the way we live!

I found the testimony about him as a call to live beyond the strain of living, experiencing the peace and joy that God brings to human soul. 

M.C.Mathew ( photo and text)