India - 7/20, somewhere over the Middle East

After months of preparation, we've all made it.  We got exactly what we needed to make this trip happen, often times having exactly what we needed when we needed come through at the last second.  I myself had the last of the money I needed come through just a few days before I left.  We've battled discouragement, sickness, circumstantial probles and in my own case, a pile of problems and attitudes that I had worked through already resurfacing all at once.  Gotta love that.  We've gone through a lot to get here, which leads me to believe that we'll do a whole lot while we're there.  We have no idea what to expect, but we know we're in for something.

We've almost completed the final leg of our journey - the filght from Frankfurt to Mumbai - that wasn't originally on our itenerary.  We had to do some quick changes in DC to just get out of that airport.  I can see a map of the plane's current position and our progress.  It's surreal to see places I have only heard about in the news on this map: Tehran, Baghdad, Kabul, and Kuait.  I can now look out the window and see them.  I see people around me on the plane that are from these war-torn and conflicted areas around me.  Suddenly, they aren't far away places where bad things happen, they are real places with real people.

Give me your eyes for just one second
Give me your eyes so I can see
Everything that I keep missing
Give me your love for humanity

We pray that we will be pliable - able to be molded and changed to do whatever God would have us do.  We pray that we would be open to hear God and follow His lead in all situations in the next 2 weeks.