Well, I just got home from my run. I left out of my house at about 7:40 and it is now 10:30...yeah, I ran that WHOLE time. Have a TON on my heart right now....HA! Yeah right! I did run for about 21 minutes which is pretty good. Funny how you never realize your neighborhood has hills until you start running through it

Of course, typical India. I am TOTALLY gross from running so I came in to turn the water on to heat up for my shower and my power goes out..so I sit here really gross and have to wait for the lights and stuff to come back on so I can shower...well, and for me to pretty much be able to do anything I want to do...at least the internet still works

Well, how about that, the power just came back on ...now I just have to occupy myself for the next 30 minutes while I wait for the water to heat up for my shower.

So, I have decided that I don't want to just run but that I should take the opportunity to pray for my neighborhood at the same time. Tonight I ran by one house where I could hear them doing their pooja inside. Then when I got to my street, I walked around the block once to cool down, I saw these two ladies sitting on the wall outside a house. So, I decided to stop and talk to them in my nastiness. How embarrassing that at the end of our wall sitting convo I got up to see proof of my sweaty nastiness remaining in a nice sized mark on the wall! Yikes! Then I got invited inside one of the homes  so I went inside in all my grossness and talked with them for hours. They fed me dinner as all Indian families do and it was REALLY great! We had much time to talk of Hinduism and dang it if I could not really speak all that much b/c the words would not come to me. What matters is that I now have relationships with this cool family and hope to continue to see them as often as I can. God is good like that. Opens doors for us to walk through...