The whole world seemed to center around you and your beloved

　　The present day smartphones can stay on charge forever and anon. Although we are instructed not to talk on the mobile without removing the charger plug from the power socket, this salutary piece of advice is rarely taken seriously. Hardly surprising that we lea of people whose ears have been singed beyond repair, and they need an audio equivalent of Braille to follow their callers. Serves them right, I say. While on the subject, if your prime suspect for your smartphone going on the blink is the battery itself, and in a thoughtless moment, you remove the battery in order to clean it, be waed. All your data can be wiped out. If you know how to avoid this, please call me.The mode day cordless landline phones require charging as well, but they keep self- charging as long as they remain in their base units over long periods. We don’t pay much attention to them because most of us are glued to our mobiles, and only family elders, the customer service centre at our banks, the post office reminding you to renew your Public Provident Fund, the carpet cleaning service for contract renewal and some mystery 4-year-old girl at 3am IST, rolling her ‘R’s, wanting to speak with her Rukku Paati or Jaggu Thatha. As I am loath to disappoint this child on a wrong number, I try to engage her in some Tamil baby talk, before her dad snatches the instrument away, mouths an abrupt ‘Sorry bro’ in a Yankee China PPR ELBOW Manufacturers / Palakkad accent, and cuts the line. Long distance, I am guessing. Probably New Jersey.Finally, I have this battery operated tennis racket contraption for electrocuting mosquitoes. Either a backhand or forehand swish will do. A crackle, a spark and the mosquito is history. Chinese made, naturally. Needs to be charged every three hours, else you may as well be serving underarm!

　　The choice between money and power is a difficult one to make. Moreover, we find both options interlinked. With more money, you will automatically buy power and, with more power, money will follow. The notion is also valid when you are searching for a car. A performance-spec car imparts confidence in you and satiates your desire for power. And what can be better than a powerful sedan that along with being practical, also has a commanding road presence. But there's another side to the coin too; you need to bu a hole in your pocket to buy yourself such a powerful set of wheels. Now, what if there were a middle way out If you could get to floor the accelerator pedal of a powerful sedan without playing Grand Theft Auto in the real world In this article, we have done the homework for you so you don’t have to think of any crazy, dangerous ways to quench that sedan thirst. Also, as we are talking about the real world, one has to take into account the practicality quotient and drivability too. So if you have around Rs 12 lakh to spend and power is what you desire, you need look no further. Hyundai Vea (Rs 10.29 lakh; S variant, ex-showroom, Delhi)Thanks to the marvellous engine that lives under its bonnet, Hyundai can really boast about the power of the Diesel Vea. Powered by a 1.6-litre CRDi four-cylinder diesel engine that chus out 128PS of peak power right from 4000rpm, it’s the most powerful sedan in its category. The icing on the cake is its impressive torque of 260Nm that is available from as low as 1900rpm. If you don’t really understand the numbers game here, in layperson terms, you get a surge of linear power each time you step onto the accelerator pedal, especially when you set off after a halt. The only downer here is the six-speed manual gearbox, which is not exactly the smoothest shifter in the market, but gets the job done. Fiat Linea 125 S T-Jet (10.46 lakh; ex-showroom, Delhi)Fiat has opened its doors for performance enthusiasts in our country, which although are not huge in numbers, with the introduction of performance-based vehicles that are powerful yet easy on the pocket. One among them is the revamped Fiat Linea that now gets a spectacular 125PS turbo-petrol engine.

　　Windsor: Nothing captured the trans-Atlantic nature of Saturdays royal wedding as much as the guest preacher whose sermon brought American fire and flair to a very English church service.The Most Rev. Michael Bruce Curry, the first black leader of the Episcopal Church in the United States, was hand-picked by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to address their 600 wedding guests.Here’s the full text of Most Rev. Michael Bruce Curry’s sermon:And now in the name of our loving, liberating and life-giving God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.From the Song of Solomon, in the Bible:"Set me as a seal upon your heart,as a seal upon your arm;for love is strong as death,passion fierce as the grave.Its flashes are flashes of fire,a raging flame.Many waters cannot quench love,neither can floods drown it."The late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr once said, and I quote: "We must discover the power of love, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that, we will be able to make of this old world a new world, for love is the only way."Theres power in love. Dont underestimate it. Dont even over-sentimentalize it. Theres power - power in love. If you dont believe me, think about a time when you first fell in love. The whole world seemed to center around you and your beloved.Oh theres power - power in love. Not just in its romantic forms, but any form, any shape of love. Theres a certain sense in which when you are loved, and you know it, when someone cares for you, and you know it, when you love and you show it - it actually feels right. Theres something right about it.And theres a reason for it. The reason has to do with the source. We were made by a power of love, and our lives were meant - and are meant - to be lived in that love. Thats why we are here.Ultimately, the source of love is God himself: the source of all of our lives.Theres an old medieval poem that says: "Where true love is found, God himself is there".The New Testament says it this way: "Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God, and those who love are bo of God and know God. Those who do not love do not know God. Why? For God is love."Theres power in love. Theres power in love to help and heal when nothing else can.Theres power in love to lift up and liberate when nothing else will. Theres power in love to show us the way to live."Set me as a seal on your heart, a seal on your arm, for love is as strong as death."But love is not only about a young couple. Now the power of love is demonstrated by the fact that were all here.