So it has been one month here in India now! It has been mind blowing and life shaking for sure…And I love it. It is funny I was reading my journal from one month ago exactly and on 9-7-11, and I was writing about the cold night that we spent in the New Jersey airport with our 24 hour layover, and I had also written a poem that read,
In the whisper on the wind,
As the red leaves fall.
Grace and beauty, God, clothes us with.
And dancing is Your delight.
The rain, it has a beautiful song.
I love You Lord, all days long.
To see, O God, Your beautiful face.
And we will laugh and breathe in outer space.
I put my trust in You alone.
Wherever I go, I’ll make my home.�
So reading that, then coming to what I had written in my journal one month later on 10-7-11, it went something like this…�My heart is so heavy. I can feel it breaking as the street children make their rounds begging, as the crippled man rolls down the street on a wooden board with wheels. My heart is heavy. But there in the distance is a child being tossed joyfully up into the air and then landing back into the arms of her father. This is life. This is India.�
This has truly been an incredible week. So full of life, joy, sorrows, laughter, breaking hearts, and heart wrenching prayer. Monday was an AMAZING beginning to the week not to mention! We were going to take the kids from our after school studies, Tuition, to the beach! So we were already looking forward to that. We taught preschool in the morning like any other normal day, then we were going to leave earlier than usual to meet at Tuition to start getting everything ready, ok so far so good. We checked the doors to leave the apartment (preschool) and it turns out that we got locked in! For some reason it is a clever idea in India to have locks on the outside of your door as well in an apartment in which anyone could really just walk by and lock you in, and you really cannot even use any key what so ever to get out. So anyways, this would be too the day of all days that we didn’t even have our phone. So team leader Beks, climbs out the window, and jumps from the 2nd floor, after of course different people walk by and laugh at the “crazy white lady climbing down the apartment�, so she can come back up and let the rest of us out! Oh good funny morning! So random. Taking the kids on a picnic to the beach was the most wonderful blessing. I can still see their excited faces, all 30 of them, and hear the worship songs they sang all the way to and from the beach on the bus. They were able to leave the slum behind; the trash, the abuse, the rotting dead animals. They had it all in their review mirrors and for those 2 hours gone they were truly able to just be, kids. To be so excited when they got the kite in the air, to tackle their “Teachas Teachas�(that would be us) into the salty beach water and just pile on for hugs. Then on the way back they were just so tired from their happy day, and this one little boy, who also is in my preschool class, was sitting in my lap and he was just able to relax and forget about what he might be going home to. At first his little rail thin arms were holding tightly onto the seat in front of us, but then after a while he relaxed and just melted into me. So peaceful and precious. And that was just the beginning of the week. Throughout the week has been consisting on having a holiday one day where people take off work and worship their work (hmmm strange twist on labor day I guess), morning runs and swims at the beach, woman here with such beautiful hearts feeling like worthless burdens, and random music late at night with the “Macarena� playing…What?? Yeah. I do not even know…
But God is just awesome. He really is. And He’s really been showing me that I need to trust in Him in all things and He WILL lead me onto the path He desires for me to tread. I’m so thankful. Life is so beautiful.
There is going to be lots of changes here lately, locations and what not. But God is in control…and we can SO take comfort in that. Everything happens for a reason. It was wonderful, Friday morning, exactly right when I woke up (like before my brain was even fully functioning), “Have Thine own way Lord, have Thine own way. You are the potter, I am the clay� was playing so distinctively in my mind and heart. So yes God…Have Thine own way.
So, on this note I think I shall leave you with two verses. The first verse being, “Isaiah 58�, and the second, “Job 19: 23-28� God bless and be with you all! Love, Meghan
(And sorry this is long but I had alot to say!) ;D
