So I decided to share with you guys some things that I or my team has experienced that we affectionately have termed TJI(that’s just India). Please ask me about these more later so that I can elaborate on them. Most if not all of them have hysterical stories that go with them…
TJI…
· When the driver leaves your taxi for no reason and show up ten minutes later and starts driving as if nothing happened.
· When you miss your turn and back up in a traffic jam.
· When you start saying good morning to the five cows you pass on a ¼ mile walk down street.
· When you see fields and fields of cow poop used as “fuel”.
· When the Indian Army becomes in a routine traffic stop.
· When you name the mice in your house after fictional villains.
· When you scrape the mold off the bread so you can eat the rest of the loaf
· When you walk half way to the market to find a rickshaw driver that will take you for a fair price.
· When bartering for fruit becomes a fun activity.
· When you’re thankful for cold showers.
· When just stepping out your front door draws a crowd of admirers.
· When seeing a dump truck on two wheels does not even faze you.
· When you wonder why there’s only one person on a motor cycle.
· When seeing white people makes you supper excited and is reported about during team time.
· When the horn and your bus plays a song.
· When your bus stop is the side of the highway.
· When one car to a lane seems like a waste of space.
· When you see a person using a laptop of a rickshaw.
· When car horns don’t even faze you make you feel as though you did anything wrong.
· When guys holding hands means nothing other then their friends.
· When finding lice on your scarf means nothing more then “oh I should kill this”
· When traffic laws and red lights are only suggestions.
· When you don’t even need an alarm clock just listen for your neighbor throwing up.
· When you eat food off the floor in desperation for one meal and then eat enough rice for a year in the next.
· When you face plant every day because you don’t know how to walk in a skirt and go down steps at the same time.
· When falling in sewage down not faze you anymore.
Okay so those are really funny and have brought me a lot of joy, but then there are those moments that I personally have called TII(this is India). It can be those moments that I realize the poverty of this country or the level or faith that these people have or… well here are a few examples.
TII…
- When I pray that a dying leper know my Fathers love.
- When your believing driver p**ys every time he cranks the car.
- When the children who have not been held in a while let you hold them and I secretly get to pray over them.
- When I get the awesome chance to explain my Father is not a g*d he is the G*d.
- When sitting with 4 girls making friendship bracelets for 3 hours makes my day.
- When you can’t understand a word said during a Sunday morning service yet you leave filling fed and refreshed.
- When the children singing worship to the king in the orphanage, drown out the train coming by.
- When I’m preaching in a service.
I feel like I could go on for ages! But I just wanted to share with you as many things as I could! Thanks so much to everyone for pr*ying and I can’t wait to fully share everything our Father has done in great length.
