Wow such a great and crazy week! I have loved both working with the woman, and the children. I’ve made relationships now with people in both slums and I love them both. The streets were crowded and dirty, but a green shirt was worn by the man that crossed the busy road, and it read, “Love Hate Love Hate Love Hate”, over and over. And nothing could be said more true about India. It really is a love hate. I love it…The people, the places, the insane bus rides…But I also hate it. Seeing how some of these people live, children playing barefoot in dirty slum water, children with infections, homeless men with no legs…People kneeling down and praying to an elephant god who neither speaks nor loves. But God does love. He loves them SO much. And that’s why He sent us. This week right in our building at one of the slums is a muslim temple. And every day, more than once a day that muslim temple blares it’s call to prayer. But, I don’t let that discourage me. everytime that’s going on, I’m praying against that, I’m praying for all those people. And what I really love, is that there are 8 new women coming to the classes and a few of the are muslims, and everytime the call to prayer goes she puts her vail on over her head. But the way I see it is this, her religion doesn’t even alow her to enter into their place of worship. But while this call is going on, she is sitting with a circle of Believers, who are joyful and loving and so so happy to see her when she comes. Now you can not tell me that her heart will not be be tugged for God, because I know it already has been :). I told the women the story of Jesus washing the disciples feet the other day, and then we all (against their protest) cleaned the womans feet and then they wanted to clean ours! 😀 Such a beautiflu humbleness. Jesus loves us all the same! I prasie God for all these people, I can really see how He loves them and if all I ever could accomplished is showing them that then I think the race would be well run. God bless, and looove, Meghan <3
