'Commit your work to the Lord and he will establish your plans.' Proverbs 16: 3

This is a Bible verse, something I try and follow and this is also the verse that inspired me the most like many other verses. I started the blog post with a verse because it is about God and the blessings He has bestowed upon me throughout my life.

I won't say I am religious but I do believe in God. I pray every day which I do always and read the Bible too. I might not fully follow the rituals and traditions such as the abstinence but I do make it a point to attend the Holy Mass every Sunday and on other feast days such as Easter, and Christmas.  

I have mentioned in my previous blogposts how distressed I was for the past two months and how I am struggling to cope with it. It was not easy for me. It is a realisation that happened lately which I will talk about towards the end but I believe I didn't want to pray if I had not made any effort in something I set out to do. Like I can't expect to pray to do well in exams if I haven't prepared well and it feels like being pretentious and I realised I haven't been pretentious at all even in prayers and other things for a long time now. Not that I am brutally honest as such, but I don't pretend for the sake of it.

When I was lost in a zone while walking back home after work or to work, I think of a lot of things; sometimes the past which I don't want to. One such thing was living with a roommate in Bangalore before the pandemic which was the hardest nine months of my life. The contract of the accommodation was till April 2020 but I vacated at the end of February 2020 and left Bangalore on the next day i.e., 1st March 2020. This was two weeks before everything had closed down. 

Imagine if I was still there, I would have been stuck there and wouldn't be able to return soon and my then roommate would have left already. Luckily, I was in Safe Hands, and we were looked upon by the Almighty. I was at my Aunt's house with two of my cousins and my sister for six months because of the lockdown but luckily not isolated or stuck as I would have been. God's Blessing worked there.

If you have read my blogs, you have noticed mentioned how 2022 was a great year where things worked eventually and not based on our assumption like earlier. When I wasn't getting positive responses from the universities abroad about admitting me, I wasn't really upset but I was thinking of re-applying the next year and was also planning out what I would do in this one year.  That was when I got an offer letter from the university I am currently studying. God's Hand worked there as well. It is like Him telling me, ‘You don’t have to be here for another year. You wanted to study abroad, didn't you? Go. Go now.'

So what I am trying to say or what I have realised is that God has been with me throughout my journey. He will be there throughout. All you got to do is trust Him.

‘For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord. 'Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.' Jeremiah 29:11