Fact: Living in India has changed my life for the better.
Truth: Moving to India did not/does not make me a saint.
The same sins and faults I struggled with in Lombard, IL USA came with me to India.
In fact, living out of my comfort zone in some crazy situations has magnified my faults all the more.
January was a hard month. Starting a new home from scratch and trying, as a new mom with new staff, to figure out how to run a new home has kicked me in the behind. I feel I have done more damage then good this month. Especially as I have tried to do it on my own, refusing Heavenly guidance. I have lost my temper more times then I care to remember and required more forgiveness and grace then should be allotted to me.
Indian life happens in community.
Living in community requires lots of grace.
I am so grateful for Indian staff for showing the alien in their community copious amounts of grace. For the wonderful women in my home that have taken me under their wing and who repeatedly, in their own quiet way teach me how to be a woman full of grace.
Fact: Left to my own devices and tendencies things turn disastrous.
Truth: Christ in His infinite grace and mercy has redeemed me, my story and my mistakes for His Glory. Hallelujah and amen.
Truth: Moving to India did not/does not make me a saint.
The same sins and faults I struggled with in Lombard, IL USA came with me to India.
In fact, living out of my comfort zone in some crazy situations has magnified my faults all the more.
January was a hard month. Starting a new home from scratch and trying, as a new mom with new staff, to figure out how to run a new home has kicked me in the behind. I feel I have done more damage then good this month. Especially as I have tried to do it on my own, refusing Heavenly guidance. I have lost my temper more times then I care to remember and required more forgiveness and grace then should be allotted to me.
Indian life happens in community.
Living in community requires lots of grace.
I am so grateful for Indian staff for showing the alien in their community copious amounts of grace. For the wonderful women in my home that have taken me under their wing and who repeatedly, in their own quiet way teach me how to be a woman full of grace.
" And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others. But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them." ~Ephesians 2:1-10
Fact: Left to my own devices and tendencies things turn disastrous.
Truth: Christ in His infinite grace and mercy has redeemed me, my story and my mistakes for His Glory. Hallelujah and amen.
Baby Ruby and her ammama (grandmother) ayah.
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