One either loves India or one doesn't.
There is no "gray" when talking about India love.
I, for one, love India. Mostly.
One of the hardest things for me to adjust to in is the Indian concept of time. Indian is trying its absolute hardest to become a major world power but is being hindered by a "third world" mind set. A majority of Indians are focused on having just enough for today, which makes it impossible to think ahead for tomorrows needs/wants let alone a future.
When I moved into this home it was operating with this mind set. I call it "crisis mode". People were telling me we were out of food or diapers when we literally had not one item left. I would be left running out to the store at the last min. or scrambling to make do. Needless to say to someone who is a future oriented planner this was beyond frustrating. Why couldn't every one think like me?
Some where in the midst of my temper tantrum I realized that with my Western mind set I was missing out on the today I had been given. While living with a mind set for the future keeps me from buying groceries for breakfast at 8am, it also keeps me from enjoying all the little moments in my day. The moments that in the long run really matter.
I have been in India for 9 months. We were asked this past week about our long term plans for living in India and working for SCH. When I started this journey God called me to India for a set time of one year. Over a year and a half later that has not changed, I will be coming home in May.
I love it here. I love SCH, my work and the kids. There is no one reason for me to leave. But the journey of following the Rabbi is a continual one.
However, the next 3 months are not going to be spent preparing for my future in America. They are going to be spent taking one day at a time, relishing the small moments.
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." ~Matthew 6:25-34
There is no "gray" when talking about India love.
I, for one, love India. Mostly.
One of the hardest things for me to adjust to in is the Indian concept of time. Indian is trying its absolute hardest to become a major world power but is being hindered by a "third world" mind set. A majority of Indians are focused on having just enough for today, which makes it impossible to think ahead for tomorrows needs/wants let alone a future.
When I moved into this home it was operating with this mind set. I call it "crisis mode". People were telling me we were out of food or diapers when we literally had not one item left. I would be left running out to the store at the last min. or scrambling to make do. Needless to say to someone who is a future oriented planner this was beyond frustrating. Why couldn't every one think like me?
Some where in the midst of my temper tantrum I realized that with my Western mind set I was missing out on the today I had been given. While living with a mind set for the future keeps me from buying groceries for breakfast at 8am, it also keeps me from enjoying all the little moments in my day. The moments that in the long run really matter.
I have been in India for 9 months. We were asked this past week about our long term plans for living in India and working for SCH. When I started this journey God called me to India for a set time of one year. Over a year and a half later that has not changed, I will be coming home in May.
I love it here. I love SCH, my work and the kids. There is no one reason for me to leave. But the journey of following the Rabbi is a continual one.
However, the next 3 months are not going to be spent preparing for my future in America. They are going to be spent taking one day at a time, relishing the small moments.
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." ~Matthew 6:25-34
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