Homeward bound

Home? How will that be? America? What does it look like? What about all the poor friends i met? Is it fair for me to come back to my large house in vantage hills and drive down roads that are smooth? To go to church and have it be warm and we sit on benches that even have cushions? To have more than one sweater plus a few coats? Warm socks without holes? And then think i still need more things? And what do I do with all my things, other then store and fill a room in my house with what i don't use.   Why? Why? Why am I, are we so consumed  with things? And then we have Bible Schools to go to, bible studies to have, Sunday School, books to read... But what do i do with all of it? With all the teaching, all I have been given? I am afraid to admit what i to often do, just keep it all for myself. And don't use it as i could.
I just have much to process and think as i sit here at the airport and think of making this transition back to my world again!  

snow capped mountains

We have finally  been able to see all the mountains around us! It is totally incredible! 

 

 

Just another picture of the mountains. This day we just drove all around and went to all the view points that we could. We just could not get enough of the beautiful views! God's creation is so amazing. I am having a hard time taking it all in! It is pictures you would see in magazines and my small camera just doesn't seem to get the big picture. I want to just stand in awe so many times just looking and trying to grasp the beauty of it all!

And just us!!!!

Manju's village

THE SMALL PATH WE CLIMBED UP THE MOUNTAIN!!!

Manju's family lives in this little hut. One hut for the kitchen and the other had 2 rooms and very small. In that village they were considered homeless. Very sad situation. Manju has one little sister and one brother. Her brother is at an orphange.

The group of followers we had the whole time we were there!!

Down by the river...

OH and having the privalage of eating with our hands. And yes i did too!!! FUN FUN FUN!!

Manju the girl my sister is adopting came from this small village that we visited. Wow that was an experience!! We drove back in 2 hrs. The first half of travel was on decent roads, and the last half was on dirt roads with many potholes. And then when we got to the village we had to hike up the mountain to find where her mother lived. And that was amazing. We hiked about 15 minutes out of town looking for the place, asking as we went along. The path we had to walk on was not wider than 6-10 inches!! And straight up!! We met up with her family and then we walked around the small village. Walked down to the river with her mother and her little sister. We then went and bought some gifts for the family... rice and some clothes and such like. We had this big crowd of followers the whole time we were there. It was so interesting seeing yet another part of the world. But they were so poor... it was so sad, seeing all the dirty faces and sad looks in little childrens eyes, knowing they don't have much of a future outside of this small town. And then wondering how many other villages around i have not even seen who are a lot worse off. Where is my heart of compassion?I want to save them all. How can I? I feel so overwhelmed. How can i help so many? And why was i born where i was? It could have been me here in this village. It could have been you. What am I / you doing with what we have been given?

hospital visit

Today we visited the hospital. Lindy and i took a bunch of baby clothes and handed them out to mothers with new babies or ones having babies. It was incredible the smells and sights. Nothing clean and dirt everwhere. There were a lot of patients. Many just laying on the floor on mats. One lady in labor and sitting on the floor with many people around her. Seemed like her family and extended family and friends where there to  help or watch!! hmmmm don't know how these people survive. They seriously would think our hospitals to be palaces. Yet so many unhappy and unsatisfied people in America.  Why? We have so much and been given so  much. And why was i born where i was and not here or in some other land? We are taught so much on cleanliness and just so many things that i can't even begin to all say. I see so much each  day and am again so thankful for my heritage.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO EVERYONE!!! Thank God for all you have been given.

Finally some photos, but the night is late and the body is tired and the internet is slow so just 3 tonight!!

A beautiful view from some lookout spot. You feel  on top of the world here! You live totally on the mountain side. And they are steep mountains!! So driving around is a bit of a trust experience and don't look down and hope the car coming gives you space!!!! Oh and all the stuff that looks like rocks, that is houses and villages!







My precious niece and nephew!! Oh how I am loving being with them!!  







This man we see when we go to town... he holds a cup with some liquid and begs. So sad... he had flies all around him and his hands and skin on his stomache was all caked with dirt and filth.







The end of the week

Wow so much to see and do. Today is the first day the sun is shinning ! That is wonderful! It is so refreshing and maybe today we will finally get to see the beautiful snow capped mountains!!! The veiw from Lindys house is amazing! We came down to the vegetable market today. That is very interesting. I can't wait to go back by myself and spend more time looking and browsing the shoppes! Manju will go with me. She knows the town like the back of her hand.
Good times we are having!! We have been so tired and going to bed early. Maybe one of these days we will get our energy back!!!
God is good and faithful!!!

Arrived

We have arrived in the land of India!!!!!!!!!!
I feel in total shock at all the sites around me....
No way to discribe all the people, smells, trash, sad faces,.....
Wow never knew such a world existed! I feel so sad... why was i born where i was?
Had a great time unpacking all the fun things with my sister. Now we came to town to email and presently
there is some campaign going on outside with much yelling and screaming! Protesting or something....
Keep praying for us!

Here I go....

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I can't believe what is happening!!!!!! Today i leave.....for India!!!!!!!!!!
Just my cousin Elvin and myself.
Pray for us:
for safety in travels,
for protection from all the evil around us,
God's blessing and anointing to be upon us,
that our lights may shine brighter and destroy the darkness!

"If you always do what you've always done, then you will always get what you've always got!"
-quote stolen from April (thanks April your life has been a blessing to me) 

Landing for 4 days

Home and barely have my feet down before i run off to India!!

Just got back on Thursday from a 12 day canoe trip with my youth girls. We did not canoe for 12 days, but had an awesome time! We spent 6 days on the Suwanne River in Florida, then drove down to Gator boys camp for a few days and helped out there. The Canoe trip was absolutely more than i could have asked for. The bond we felt after we got home was incredible and the things we worked though were not all fun easy things, but it was awesome to find freedom in areas that you were not aware were locked and closed and see others find freedom as well! I was stretched in many things. God did a great work in my heart in tearing out some ugly things that needed cleansed, and i am so thankful He keeps refining us and making us more like HIM!

Now off to India another part of the world..... Pray for me and i will try to keep you all posted with life

Surrender

I will never be able to out-smart the Lord 

     I can give up trying

I will never be able to hind anything from the Lord

     I can give up trying

I will never be able to second guess the Lord

     I can give up trying

My absolute wonderful option: ( in Christ Jesus)

     Completely surrender everything about myself and 

circumstances to him... Then simply follow the one who

loves me without condition and knows what is best for me!

  -Rich Davis

I like it a lot.... I try so hard sometimes... when all i need to do is surrender and trust!
And give up trying!!!!!!!!

Welcome!

Well not sure what i am getting myself into here...

but here goes...

The reason i have decided to start this blog is: so my many friends and i guess whoever out there, wants to know what is happening in my world! 

November starts a journey of journeys... hmmm is that what i want to call it? Yeah i guess it is! I have a 2 week canoe trip planned with my youth girls the first of November. Then i plan to take a trip to India to visit my sister who is living there. My cousin Al plans to go with me!! We plan to stay for 3 1/2 weeks and then i come home and am home for 2 weeks and then i head off to Heritage Bible School to be Dean of women for 6 weeks! ahhhh crazy schedule yet fun life!! 

So you can pray that i stay sane in all of this. I was wondering the other day if i am crazy to be so busy and wondering if my mind can handle all this stuff and God brought the verse to me : Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee!! WOW how true... when my thoughts and mind is stayed on Christ i am not overwhelmed by life!