So much has happened since my last post and I'm not even sure where to begin. Sunny, Beverley and I left Shillong last week for a ministry trip and we have been in a constant state of travel since then. We are running an SOFM in Shillong in July with a Tibetan Buddhist Focus. We are trying to meet with various bases and leaders in different places across India in order to build relationship and share our vision. We are hoping for at least 20 students to come. So far it has been really good and we have had great fun along the way.
Since we were in Delhi we all went to Agra to see the Taj Mahal since none of us had ever seen it. It was breathtakingly beautiful and well worth the journey. One of our rickshaw drivers gave us some bad information and so we ended up standing up on a train with tons of people for a couple of hours. It was funny. I have so many pictures and will post them later.
On our journey to Delhi, that same night, some bombs went off in Varanasi, which is one of the train stations that we passed through. The bombs went off between 6:30-6:45 pm and we went through the station somewhere between 10:00pm-12:00. Since then Delhi has been put on high alert and they have found a few bombs that were put in other places. Since we've been travelling, I'm not very sure of the motives and the sources of the bombers, but we are praying for this area and for great peace.
Seeing more of this nation has made me fall more and more in love with this place. I have never been to a more diverse, beautiful country. Everywhere we go we see great poverty and need also, so much injustice and pain and we are crying out for His mercy and love to flood this land. There will be no true peace until He comes and establishes His kingdom in this land.
I will write more later, I just wanted everyone to know that we are safe and doing well. I've gotten several e-mails asking if we are ok and if we were near Varanasi when the bombs went off. I just really miss my husband because this is the longest we've been apart since being married. I'll be returning to Shillong later next week.
