Gerald D'Cunha

“Grace means undeserved kindness. It is the gift of God to man the moment he sees he is unworthy of God’s favour.”\ Twight L. Moody   O ne question, which many of my dear ones ask me while wishing me on my birthday, is this: “So, what is the plan for the day?”… Or, “How did you spend the day?” This means - “What’s special?” Let me tell you this: Just as my dear ones ask me this question, I, too, ask the same question to them… Yes, "What’s special?” It’s my 66 th birthday on 24 th of this month. Was it ‘special’ in any sense? Was there a ‘plan’? If by ‘special’ or ‘plan’ means something cozy in a fine-dine restaurant, or a vacation at an exotic location – No, I did not have anything ‘special or ‘planned’… It was just like another day, which had begun and ended just like any other day… But, yes, it had, most certainly, made me conscious of a couple of things about my life… I was still able to walk, talk, see, hear, feel, laugh, cry – and, above all, work and fe...

"My life isn’t over, and I’m not going to  sit  in a rocking chair and take money  from the government.” Colonel Harland Sanders, founder of KFC I will complete 62 this July. If I was a government employee, I would have been a ‘retired’ old-man, living on his monthly pension, by now. But, being a self-employed fellow, I know, that my pension will come only if I - what that famous line says – ‘get up, dress up and show up, each morning’ … Yes, no matter how I feel when I get up in the morning! My cousin brother, Stany is 65, and retired from his job with a well-known Petro-chemical company, some years ago. But, if you look at him, he looks much younger than I am. Being passionate about music, he took up a teaching assignment at an international school where he is a popular music teacher even now.  Besides this, he and his wife, Martina, have been leading the church choir group for years now. So, at 65, he still finds himself relevant and productive…...