Today is a day for wash. Though some in Kolkata have washing machines, we do not. That is ok. I am learning what is important and necessary to wash and getting strengthening in my arm muscles as I squish and beat the soapy dirty water out of my clothes :) One new experience found in Kolkata.
Today is a good day as I have it to study language and do some required reading, which could even be called pleasure reading, as well as journal some of what I am learning about ministry leadership. I only need to make it to language class this evening to practice writing and recognizing Bengali letters, right now I am learning the vowels.
I think I will journey to the coffee shop by metro to do my studies. What a joy coffee is and the inviting atmosphere coffee shops bring. We have a new friend arriving in Kolkata today who will join the ministry on full-time staff, I've heard great things about him. He will be journeying with us to language school in Bangladesh in just over a week. 5 hours of rigorous language study a day it will be, for about a month's time. This is exciting as I hope I will be better able to formulate conversations upon returning!
I have met some beautiful people since I arrived in Kolkata. People, some of whom are believers and some of whom are not, but simply have a life that they want to give in service to others. They see the need in this city and see how much they have been given. A non-believer I met last week is here serving in Kolkata, miles from home, a social development graduate--she wants to live unselfishly by serving those who are in need because she has spent so much of her life in selfishness, living for herself in whatever way that came. As a Christian hearing this, I was stunned. I have those thoughts often, of wanting to live unselfishly and wanting to give myself to those in need as I have been given SO much, but I have never acted on it; only thought. And this is what I am called to; to live for others, to consider others better than myself.
Your prayers are wonderful. Thank you for your love and encouragement as I continue in this grand adventure of growth
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