Incredible India

I MADE IT!!!!!!! I cannot believe that I am in India.

I serve an amazing God, and a lot of things happened before my trip, but you know what? It all worked out. It always does.

"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 6:31-34

I have been spoiled rotten since the moment I got here, thanks to my dear friends Sandeep and Ritu. Sandeep is hosting me, and yesterday he sent me off on a tour of UNESCO world heritage sites. There is so much history here, and I am blown away by the intensity of the culture here. The Red Fort, Qutub, a tomb that I can't remember the name of- I saw ruins dating back to the 4th century! I saw Mogul ruins, Hindu ruins, Muslim ruins, Hindu ruins defaced by Muslims, and on and on.

My tongue is also on fire... everything is spicey, although not as spicy as I feared. Everything has flavor, and you can smell spices in the air on the street. I don't really know how to describe everything or to sum it up, except to say that it is chaotic and messy and old and new and passionate and very beautiful.

Tonight I am meeting with a musician friend of Sandeep's, and then Ritu and I are going shopping for salwar kamises so that I don't stick out like a sore thumb when I go to Orissa tomorrow.