This week we learned that our visa applications were actually sent off to the Indian Embassy! It has been a long process since India is now only granting one-year visas. The batch of visas for the group ahead of us was the start of this change and it took a few days to verify that it was not an error and that they would still be going. Since ours had not yet been issued we had to wait and see if we would be going under the new conditions. We are and so they were submitted. I imagine it will be at least a month.
This morning I found a cockroach in the bathroom. Yuck! I think God really has a sense of humor and is weekly giving me something to accept in preparation for our Indian adventure. This week it was a bug. I’m sure there will be more and bigger ones in my future.
We have several couples that have received their visas and are heading to their missions in New Zealand, India, Australia and Spain. We got to inherit some of their stuff. I was very excited to get a pair of kitchen shears, an iron and an ironing board. (We haven’t quite figured out how to dry Rick’s white shirts without wrinkles.) Funny how such simple things can be exciting when you’ve been making do.
The only spiritual thought I have pertains to the dry bones in Ezekiel. Seems fitting with tomorrow being Halloween. Just as the bones were made to live through the word of the Lord, we too can live as we allow His word to fill us with light and truth and joy.
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