We have reached safely and are doing well. Siliguri is usually a crazy hot sort of place and somehow when we got here we were surprised at how very cold it is this time of year. We packed entirely wrong and have had to borrow some shawls and things to keep warm. We have been meeting with everyone who is involved with FM and church planting here in NE India. It has been a good time to get together and pray and seek the heart of God for what we are doing. It has been good to see some friends that we haven't seen for along time.
One of the first days that we were meeting together, someone got a phone call and we found out that Sudhakar, a major YWAM leader in South India had been killed on a motorcycle riding home. The ironic thing was that someone who came here to speak and share had just been with him the day before in Hyderabad for a meeting and they hd stayed up until 1am laughing and joking around. I had known him and his wife when I had worked in Tamil Nadu and so this news really shook our hearts. There is something that happens to my heart when I find out that someone I knew and respected has passed away. It makes me reevaluate my life and realign my heart with what I want to matter in eternity. Over and over it strikes me again, this world is not our home. I was just reading in Revelation about how God will wipe away every tear from our eye and there will be no more death, no more sorrow, no more pain... there is such a comfort to the fact that we are of a kingdom that will never end, that His kingdom will never pass away. I have such a desire and longing that in this life I will love God, that I will spend my life on things that have eternal value. This life is a vapor, it is here today and gone tomorrow. God never changes. There has been an urgency in my heart these past couple of days to say like the psalmist," Teach me to number my days aright that I may gain a heart of wisdom."
It's so crazy, this guy woke up in the morning after being at a meeting for a week. Got on his scooter, which he had done thousands of other times, and somewhere along the way a truck hit him. He has a wife and a daughter. He never made it home. No one knew that that would happen. Just in a moment of time, everything changed.
