Love Is In The Blair

Month 8 debrief found us wrapping up India, a tough month, as I’ve previously alluded to in my last 2 blogs.  It also found us in a small town, without many luxuries, trapped, for the most part, by incessant rain.  But I think that’s what we needed. Many of us had a tough month spiritually and/or  otherwise, the threat at a luxurious debrief would have been to, as my new squad leader Rebekah Clark aptly pointed out in her blog, run to worldly things for comfort and peace. But those amenities weren’t available to us.  In fact, nowhere we looked to have debrief was going to be filled with convenience or lots of “pleasure” as we typically might seek it out after a tough time.  Instead, the only place of real comfort and solace we had to turn to was God and each other.  For the most part I think our squad took advantage of that. It wasn’t the debrief many wanted or envisioned.  Even I, though I knew “Fancy Land” wasn’t the best for us, didn’t see the incessant rain as a

So whenever I get home from this whole World Race thing people will undoubtedly ask, “How was your trip?” or ”How was your year?”  For the most part, those people probably won’t want more, or get more than “good.”  Some will go a little deeper and ask something like “What was your favorite country?”  That, too has a lot of possible answers, depending on if you are speaking of contacts, ministry, the beauty of the country, etc.  Even within those breakdowns it will still be somewhat difficult to say, and that’s with about 3 full months left. What I can say, however, is that I will likely not be answering “India” to the latter question. It wasn’t that I hated India, I don’t. It wasn’t that I’ll never go back.  In fact, India was home to some of the people that sought to honor me, my team, and squad the most.  I now have, what I feel can be, lifelong friends in India. It wasn’t just because I struggled to find my place in the ministry we were assigned to. It wasn’t just