How will you leave the children?
The only way I know how to. The same way I left everyone and everything in my American home; With lots of tears but with peace in my heart, in the hands of their heavenly Daddy.
Will you be going back/why don't you stay?
These are some of the hardest questions for me to answer and, I think, for people to hear. As of right now I don't have any plans to return to SCH. While I need to go home to rest physically, mentally, emotionally and recharge spiritually I don't have a concrete one reason why after that I am not returning.
Part of me feels like I am completing this journey in reverse. When I left America last May people were asking me, "What will you be doing in India?" and "Why are you giving up everything to go for an entire year?" I didn't have an answer to the first question then and I don't have an answer to the same question as I come back to America. In answer to the second question then, was that I am a disciple of Christ and that where he leads me I will follow. As Sarah akka says, "The cloud is moving." As a Christian the answer to the second question, I feel, answers all others and it is the one that brings me peace.
I love my kids, SCH, and India. I am leaving (I think...) with blessings on my journey forward. If I am lead back I will come running.
How many times have you gotten diarrhea?
India's actually call this "motions". And disclaimer, for people like my grandmother, it was an long time nurse tech and an RN (congrats Micah!!) asking this question. We nurses are very transparent about bodily functions.
I have actually only had one day of stomach "issues" in the past year. Glory be to God. Considering some of the food stalls I frequent...well...lets just say I didn't take my mama to them. (but sometimes the most questionable places have the best food.) Nothing beats Indian "street food".
I have, however, acquired every conceivable respiratory tract infection imaginable (minus pneumonia and Legionnaires disease but there is still time...). I thought that since I have worked in a nursing home and a hospital I would have built up all the immunities to this stuff. Children, it seems, bring a whole new ballgame. Oh, and skin infections. I've got those covered too (nothing new there though. Right mama?).
I am sure there are more questions that no body asked but they will have to wait...last blog from this side of the ocean. But there will be more from the other side ;-)
The only way I know how to. The same way I left everyone and everything in my American home; With lots of tears but with peace in my heart, in the hands of their heavenly Daddy.
Will you be going back/why don't you stay?
These are some of the hardest questions for me to answer and, I think, for people to hear. As of right now I don't have any plans to return to SCH. While I need to go home to rest physically, mentally, emotionally and recharge spiritually I don't have a concrete one reason why after that I am not returning.
Part of me feels like I am completing this journey in reverse. When I left America last May people were asking me, "What will you be doing in India?" and "Why are you giving up everything to go for an entire year?" I didn't have an answer to the first question then and I don't have an answer to the same question as I come back to America. In answer to the second question then, was that I am a disciple of Christ and that where he leads me I will follow. As Sarah akka says, "The cloud is moving." As a Christian the answer to the second question, I feel, answers all others and it is the one that brings me peace.
I love my kids, SCH, and India. I am leaving (I think...) with blessings on my journey forward. If I am lead back I will come running.
How many times have you gotten diarrhea?
India's actually call this "motions". And disclaimer, for people like my grandmother, it was an long time nurse tech and an RN (congrats Micah!!) asking this question. We nurses are very transparent about bodily functions.
I have actually only had one day of stomach "issues" in the past year. Glory be to God. Considering some of the food stalls I frequent...well...lets just say I didn't take my mama to them. (but sometimes the most questionable places have the best food.) Nothing beats Indian "street food".
I have, however, acquired every conceivable respiratory tract infection imaginable (minus pneumonia and Legionnaires disease but there is still time...). I thought that since I have worked in a nursing home and a hospital I would have built up all the immunities to this stuff. Children, it seems, bring a whole new ballgame. Oh, and skin infections. I've got those covered too (nothing new there though. Right mama?).
I am sure there are more questions that no body asked but they will have to wait...last blog from this side of the ocean. But there will be more from the other side ;-)
Hyderabad from our roof above the roof.
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