My nose piercing resistance gland...

has an infection today, and is partially disabled. A man in sirojini nagar spilled a bag of tiny gold rings and studs in front of me and some friends today and I almost drooled on the counter. Small detailed things make my heart stir and I could have this heart stirring thing on my face! How bout that!

So this morning we did a dance workshop at a children's home with kids from slum backgrounds. It seems that all the young men here like to dance like Michael Jackson. I was frustrated with my lack of hindi but then i started dancing, we had a real good time. We had prayer time and the kids answers were really mature for there age. The translator translated a 7 year old boys answer for me. The question was "how do we glorify God?" He said that he glorifies God by crying for his friends who are unsaved and still in the slums. What can i teach these kids who are so rich in spirit? Well they didn't know how to stretch for starters, so i showed them that before we danced. but really. Im sitting here right now squishing ants with my thumbs and flicking them. Im kinda at a loss for words. I always pray for people to have a revelation of Gods love. Because everything is just 3 bazillion times better when you know that. So i think i can be a living revelation of Gods love. K. thats a good answer i think.

On the topic of Gods love. I was listening to a Misty song the other day, she sings it all spooky and intense like "the way of God is the wilderness, its always been the wilderness, he's going to teach you to walk in the dark." And oddly enough it reminds me of running errands with my mom when i was younger. Most of the time I had no clue where we were going. I would sleep while she was behind the wheel. My sister would complain of car sickness. We may be in Shoprite for 4 hours. I might find the paper towel section crawl into the shelf and lay down on the "bounty" roles for a bit. The point is i would have no control. You are forced to live in the moment. Another instance was when my mom was sick. For a couple of days while she was in the hospital we lived from phone call to phone call and waited a heck of allot. When you know you are protected by someone who completely and fully loves you, like LOVES you, is infatuated with you like a new bride? ya know what i'm talking about? the wilderness isn't scary its enjoyable and fun! And whenever we do go through a rough spot it just gives God an excuse to show us how much grace and love he has for us, we get to experience a deeper more intimate level of him. We are only moving up you guys. Or down depending on the analogy. Even if today sucked, even if most of your life has totally sucked! (im sorry :( ) but your probably meant to go super deep! He's bringing you to a deeper place. HOLLAAAA.

urg. where the heck is Hosea?! o

Hosea 2:14

"Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness and speak tenderly to her. And there I will give her her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth, as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt. And in that day, declares the Lord, you will call me "My Husband" and no longer will you call me "My Master."

nighty night,

ali

(haha i just found out "Nacho" is the commanding rude form of "to dance" in hindi. So "Dance!" is "Nacho! NACHOOOOO!" i want to get really angry and start screaming this.)

k. end. bye.