Lassi: India, my desire

When I was young I read this "Royal Diary" book about a princess in India...now I can't remember her name, but I loved the story. At one point it talks about the feast after the end of Ramadan and specifically about this yogurt drink called Lassi. I fell in love with the idea and have always wondered what this drink would be like. I would skip to that part of the story to read again about the exotic things they would eat and drink and always this lassi fascinated me. And this weekend up at the top of the mountain we were having brunch...pizza and these pan CAKES (that were AMAZING!) and they had lassi! I was soooo excited I ordered the mango one and it was sooooo good! It was so fun drinking this drink that years before I had been dying to try. I had almost forgotten about wanting to try it until I had seen a sign the day before and all the memories of that book and yearning to try that yogurt drink came back to me. 

         Amanda pointed out how it was amazing to look back over our lives and see the hints of desiring India and wanting to be here that God had put in our lives. So many little things... I know I'm only 19 and have so much life left ahead of me but it's amazing to me that even now I can start to see the puzzle of my life's events coming together. I can see why some things were burning passions within me, how little things like a book left deep marks of dreaming on my heart and how God has been calling me here and putting India in my heart from when I was a little girl hearing about the girl "who dreamed of blue eyes". And I don't know if this calling is my life calling or simply that of a year... But it's exciting to be able to see evidence of God's hand in my life. I have such amazing peace about being here. It's like I had this whole part of my heart that was empty and I never even realized until I got here and saw how even though I missed my family, friends, bathing suits I felt full, more than full-- over flowing. At home. At peace.  Even on my bad days I still can’t imagine being anywhere else but here. Once Aunty Dawn said something to me about when you are in the exact place God wants you to be that’s where the stream of God’s blessings are. I know without the tiniest shadow of a doubt that this is exactly where God wants me.