Roh and I have just come back from India. We took a team of eight to help with charity projects and support the local church. As always, it was an amazing time. Lives changed for the good. Children without parents given a hope and a future. Dalit villages supported with medical camps and treatment from local and UK doctors. And a group of local churches supported and encouraged. My thanks to the team- though my observation would be that they have been as impacted as anyone in India!
Then it was straight up to Sheffield to celebrate our eldest son’s wedding to Joy. So congratulations Nathan and Joy. And Joy- welcome to this crazy family!
We all move through seasons- literal and metaphorical. This is such a season. The children all away from home for the first time. Two married, and our first grandchild earlier this year. So a new season for sure.
And just a change in geography for a week brings such impact. Which is the real world? I suspect that the poverty we see on each visit to India is much more the real picture. We are cocooned from this real world, enjoying as a nation such affluence when compared to the Dalit’s of India.
New geography, new seasons, new family. So new focus and new vision needed. And as we enter this later season of life, the need for new energy too. For every one of us, I ask, along with Paul in the Bible that “ God …make you intelligent and discerning in knowing him personally, your eyes focused and clear, so that you can see exactly what it is he is calling you to do, grasp the immensity of this glorious way of life he has for his followers, oh, the utter extravagance of his work in us who trust him—endless energy, boundless strength!”
