Gerald D'Cunha

    I need not know, why there is such a deafening roar Near the sea shore; I need not know, why, sometimes, meteors fall; I need not know, why my brother laughs when I brood, Why the sun burns and I cry; I need not know, why someone loves a sword When I love a pen… I need to know this: Everything is important, everyone counts! I had scribbled this Note – call ‘Poem’ if you wish - in my diary some fifteen years ago. Then, after five years or so, when I was putting together some of my Notes to publish, this Note, this poem, popped up like a Genie in the bottle… and stood before be! So, it became the title of the book: ‘Why The Sun Burns!” I began my Introduction with this poem…  It still haunts me! Why some things, in Life, happen the way they do?   Why some people come in our lives the way they do? Why sometimes dreams… and why sometimes nightmares? Why this uproar in my soul, wh...

You are mighty O lord… And Your faithfulness surrounds You… You rule over the surging sea… When its waves mount up, You still them… Psalm 89:8-9 For, a day in your courts, Is better than thousand elsewhere… I would rather be a door-keeper In the House of God Rather than live In the tents of wickedness. Psalm 84:10 Today morning, at 7.45, I received the first Biblical passage from Pravin, my friend in Mumbai. He is a Hindu and sends me, now and then, a Holy passage… Sometimes , when I rise in the morning… and, sometimes, when I am about to retire.  Cicie, lives hundreds of miles afar… and sends me a Biblical passage , every morning. Today, I received the second passage from her at sharp 7.47! I was pleasantly surprised. What a divine co-incidence… That, two of my well-wishers have to send me two inspiring passages from the same section of the Bible… and at the same time. We...