Monsoon Season

We have come to India during the Monsoon season.  The rains have been coming in downpours lasting a couple hours at most and then on and off all day.  Ruby and I enjoy using umbrellas since we come from a place where umbrellas are not only unheard of but people are laughed at if you use one, besides, if you use one in Kodiak it will not last for very long, due to the high winds that eventually will blow your umbrella inside out!  At least here, the rains are warm!  Nevertheless, it is still rain and grey and the skies become somewhat dreary.

Besides the rain, we are faced with other challenges.  But thanks to God's Grace and Kripa we are continually blessed with so many, many things.  We do not have a permanent place to stay here nor do we have a place/school for Ruby to go to. 
After so many months of not working, (with the exception of being "Mom") I am ready for something for myself, and I know Ruby would love school or other children to play with.

As it is in India, things take time and one must have patience to get things done.  Even the simple things.  Being the solo parent of a four year old, that patience must be doubled, or okay, tripled, since we are in India.  We are blessed to have a place to stay that has a refrigerator, but no oven or stove.  As we have been on the road for so many months (going on 8), I tire of public bathrooms and of eating out. To some it may sound 'luxurious' and so 'fun' or how 'lucky' to have to eat out all the time. And like I said, we are blessed and lucky, but aren't we all - if we each count our own blessings?  God is wonderful, if we allow Him/Her to bless us with His/Her love, blessings.  I don't know exactly why I am here, but does everyone else know why they are doing what they are doing? Or why they are where they are? Do you? 

I have had some amazing experiences and coincidences happen over the past 8 months.  I have allowed Divine intervention and I have opened my eyes to be led by Divine Guidance.  I have chosen to not stay in a small town, limiting my experiences to a few square miles.  Perhaps I 'lack' what this world calls 'success'.   I do not have an ivy league education nor do I have a million dollars in the bank. What I do have is faith. I have experience. My faith and my experience.   

"Limited knowledge gives limited experience" B.K.S. Iyengar


Maybe I sound confused.  Well, yes, I admit it. I have been very  confused.   Good thing I do yoga:

"Yoga is a subject that clears confusion and develops clarity in the practitioner" B.K.S. Iyengar

I pity those who live in such small spaces with limiting experiences, those that go around believing they know all because they are so busy with their very important jobs with their large paychecks. And their very important lives, not allowing a small spark of Divine intervention into their own lives because they do not need it. Their life is too important or too busy for such nonsense!

And so we must go, out into the monsoon again.