Life is one big adventure

The up shot of where we are at now is that we have flights booked out of India to Malaysia on the 31st Jan.
We found a great flight deal for this one but the issue now is that now we are stuck in Malaysia. There is nothing from Malaysia to NZ. We have been searching online and have had two travel agents searching and the outcome seems to be that we will need to catch a 6hr train ride into Singapore to catch a flight on the evening of 1st Feb. We have some flights on hold from Singapore. We couldn't get from Bangalore to Singapore so this is seeming the best option available to us. We have no choice but to leave India so what do you do? There is never a dull moment in the Czepanski family.

So how am I feeling? I could lie and say that I feel great but the reality is that I don't mind heading back to New Zealand to sort things out but the stress of the finances involved is weighing on me, the packing up of a house again and then having to find a new one and then find another 10months advance payment. David reminded me of my blog about stress and I must admit that it helped to have that reminder, to remember that is totally our of our control. We have seen God come through with $20,000 last month so why can't he do it again. Hey why not $30,000, that would be fantastic.

David is still in negotiation about this job contract but we realised we could not wait for that to happen as things here in India take time. It will still be an amazing work of God if this comes about.

I feel quite emotional and although my overall feeling is that God has it all sorted I still feel sad. I feel sad about saying goodbye to where we live. Not our house but our neighbourhood. I went today to our local store that my lovely Muslim friends own and my eyes were welling up as I told them we would be heading back to NZ for a few weeks and may not be living in our neighbourhood anymore. This beautiful  old man looked at me with such compassion in his eyes and he held his hands over his heart. I was  looking at him with his long gray beard and cap on his head and I felt that love for him again. That love that God puts inside of you for someone. He said to me that He has worked for many years and had many people come and go but that no one has entered his heart like our family. I say this not to make us sound good but to show that there are really special people here that give us that drive to stay here and they put that passion of India into us, they energise us to carry on. My heart bleeds to say goodbye to them. But we will be back and I need to keep reminding myself of that. We have return tickets booked in faith, faith that our visas will be sorted and faith that we will be able to pay for our tickets and any other obstacles that come our way. It's not easy but I need to find my strength in God and let him carry us through this.  It has to work out because there are too many people we need to come back here for and God's plans and purposes for us here are not yet complete.