Friday, January 3, 2014

Why go?

I have been challenged recently to have an answer if and when people ask me why I am returning to India. 

Yesterday, I watched this documentary (link to the trailer): 


 And it was amazing, horrifying, and truly eye-opening. At the very end, the narrator gave a quote that went something like this: 
After this journey, I have been wounded, and it is a wound I hope to never recover from.

If ever a line explained what my first trip to India did to me, that would be that one. I find the burden of the fate of women and girls in India to be one that I carry with me daily. And with that burden comes the prayer and promise to God that as often as He calls me there, I will go. 



“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.” 
― William Wilberforce