No turning back, no turning back. So this is a song that God put on my heart this week and for the first time I really thought about what it meant.  No turning back when you decide to follow Jesus does not mean that things will be easy or that you will not fall flat on your face sometimes, but it does mean that even when we do fall and feel like giving up that we will arise and carry onward. No turning back! I was reminded too of a quote from a book I once read, “Courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision that something is more important than that fear.” And so...

On Monday, we took our kids from the tutoring program to the beach (about 30 kids). And it was the best day. Walking into the slum that day, there was a light, playful feeling in the air. All of the kids started yelling, “teacha, teacha, teacha!!!” as soon as they saw us. Which they do everyday, but they were so much more animated and urgent about it. Not only were they the most excited i’ve ever seen them, they were also all dressed in their Sunday best, freshly bathed and most of the boys had fresh haircuts. All of the kids ran down to the house that we have tutoring in...

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, “We will hear Your voice O God. 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....

This week was incredible. Yesterday was exactly one month that we’ve been in India. It’s finally starting to feel like this is where we live! Loving every second of being here and ministering to these awesome people. Being here raises a lot of questions. Questions that I’ve heard other people ask but never really felt they applied to me. Questions that I’m afraid to speak out loud because I almost feel like my faith should be stronger than that – like I shouldn’t be asking them. Questions that challenge my beliefs and strengthens them at the same time...