India...

India, is one of the countries that has a piece of my heart.

After a long journey, and when I say long I mean long we made it India. Just to give you an idea
of what it looked like I will tell you about the flight itself. I left TN around 11am and drove down to Atlanta, once in Atlanta I spent some time with my brother and my mom. After spending time with them we headed to the airport where we checked in around 6pm, and boarder our plane a little after 9, we had almost a 9 hour flight to London, where we had another 3 hour lay-over and than a 10 hour flight to Chennai. Once we reached Chennai I would love to say that we were at our destination, but sadly enough we were not. We still had an 8-9 hour van ride to where we would be staying. We left Friday evening and arrived here Sunday afternoon.

Once we arrived here we were greated by people throwing flowers on us, and with huge flower necklaces...it was beautiful and almost brought me to tears. We had lunch and spent some time with the kids that afternoon. We brought the kids some candy and silly bands. I must say they love the silly bands but Im not sure they understand that they make different shapes.

Today went out to the town to buy some of the traditional dress, and it was fun to get out. Our bus driver knocked over one the push fruit stands...ooops. Than we came back and chilled out until tonight when we had service with the Pastors.

For me, India has been like coming home. I can not explain everything that is going on in words, nor do I want too explain it. When I was in China, I left a piece of my heart, and knew I would always be back to Asia, and that Asia was my home in many ways. Getting to come back to Asia, but a different part just confirmed that this continent is home, it is where I belong, it is one of the two places on the planet that my heart breaks, and that I am filled with joy. I can not explain it in words nor do I want to. All I want is to be where I belong. I want to fulfill what I am supposed to fulfill.

I am not sure what is going to happen on this trip. There are a lot of things planned, there are a few things Im super excited for and there are a few things I can not wait to do, one of the being spend some good time with the kids for a few days playing volleyball, and maybe even soccer. On Saturday we will be having a kids service with over 100 kids, possibly up to 300 Im not sure...I know Im nervous, because I have been put "in charge" of this thing, and even though I am in charge, I am not the one who is in charge, and there are two things I want to see happen. The first, I want to see relationships built, and I want to see lives transformed with the fire of God falling in miraculous ways.

Im excited to see what happens. I know that tonight the Lord showed up in great ways, and his fire is falling on this country, and that he loves these people. Sometimes it hard to grasp that he is here in the midst of their pain and suffering, and that they are blessed just as I am blessed. What does it mean to be blessed? How does that look? I am still wondering, I am still trying to figure this out. But I know they are, it is just different than what we think it is...at least I think it is. This is the journey. Im on a journey to find something, many things, but Im not sure what.

If you go to this link you can see some pics from this trip thus far...there are a lot, but they are worth a look.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2087798&id=66500521&l=d11ee09d50

What does it mean to love?