Well we are here! India lo unnamu...at long last. 2 hours from OKC to Chicago, 2 1/2 hrs in Chicago, 7 hours to London, six hours IN London attempting to rest (great organic sandwiches/horribly uncomfortable chairs), 9 hours to Hyderabad, quickly through customs, and a final grueling 7 hours in a Jeeplike taxi to Tenali. India, India, India, a study in contrasts.
A huge billboard in Hyderabad marketing "the newest address" of luxury apartments, yet a few blocks away the poor hunker down in the dirt among their blue-tarp/cardboard tents. The second largest producer of tractors in the world, yet men still plowing with bullocks (remember Elisha?) The traffic between Hyderabad and Tenali was a mix across the millenia: Huge interstate tractor trailers and crawling autorickshaws; brawny goods-carriers trucks, overloaded with rice, decorated with slogans and gods and tinsel tassels being passed by impatient taxis, private cars and tons of motorbikes--many with a sari-clad lady gracefully balanced across the back seat while they zoom in and out of the chaos; "super deluxe" buses dodging herds of goats and buffalo being driven to greener pastures, their keepers in loincloths and dusty saris, squinting at the 21st century AD rushing past the 21st century before Christ.
The noise, serenity, beauty, dirt, poverty and wealth, all part of an incredible mosaic that is impossible to unravel in a lifetime, but enchanting the heart into a love for this land and its people. Even though He is seldom recognized here, this is part of our Father's world, and He delights in His creation. Please pray that the people He created will recognize the heart of their Creator through the love and mercy of Jesus.
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