NYC
We went up to try and find "little India" in the Big Apple. We wanted to engage the people groups we are about to plant our lives in for the next few years. We wanted to put into practice the knowledge we've been gleaning along the way. Instead, we fumbled through a subway system that tried to knock us over again and again (literally). Uptown & downtown mean nothing to southerners. We finally made it across that big bridge that we couldn't yet name, and walked when the signals told us we could to the only familiar site we saw--Starbucks. We tried to speak. We tried to pray. We complained more than we needed to. And we began to walk around hot streets that never end. We found no South Asians. No foreign languages burned our ears. Faces mirroring our own walked briskly past, most without a hint of eye contact or smile. But we kept walking till our feet knew those few Brooklyn streets. And suddenly, my shoulders straightened as we tread pla