This week we read an article in the Hindi Times about a woman dying on a busy street in Delhi. The title of the article::Woman bleeds to death as car after car runs over her --She had somehow fallen off of a motorcycle or rickshaw. Instead of helping her, the cars and traffic continued at normal pace, running over her body countless times. This continued for FOUR hours as she bled to death. When someone finally cared to move her mutilated body her face was unrecognizable. I’m not sure about you, but this seems too heartless to be true. On top of that, yesterday I read about a bus driver running over two people and then fleeing the scene. More than making me scared to cross the street, these articles revealed the horrors of sin in society. 17 million people in one city, countless Hindi temples, mosques, and monuments to other gods. We visited a Sikh temple Monday. Apparently, Sikhs are distinguished by never cutting their hair, always wearing holy underwear, always carrying a holy dagger, carrying a special comb and wearing a steel bracelet. Yes, it’s strange and hard to understand why anyone would choose to wear holy underwear. Our friend Monty is a Sikh and yet he comes to every morning Bible study and to church too…he’s searching. We’re praying./Tidbits from my week/
//Gave my adult students LifeSavers for a taste of America during our lesson on Food….Even after all of my hard work to convince them that I wasn’t poisoning them, I’m not sure a single student tried them!
//Played cat&mouse with our students who tried to follow us after class to see where we live…escaped underground through the metro system!
//Ate at one of the Top 5 restaurants in Asia = Karim’s. Dined on butter naan, tandoori chicken, lamb kebobs, dall, and green mush.
//Almost got emotional after our last time doing action songs with the slum kids during Sunday school…I liken it to a mini mosh pit :]
//Fell down the marble stairs for the third time. Warning: baby powder on the bottom of your shoes makes them extremely slick.
//Considered 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 and gave my “Comforts from the Cross” book to my Indian friend, Mehnaz, who just left to go home to her Muslim family for the first time in over a year. She was saved less than a year ago and she faces so many emotions, fears and trials during these next two weeks at home.
//Incredibly thankful for my overall health. Most of the Indian people I know have been sick at least once this past month, my friend Jessie was just diagnosed with kidney stones and my other friend Kajul has been to the hospital twice.
