October 21, 2002

Meeting Sunil and Prafol
It was so good to meet Sunil and Prafol at the airport in Ahmedabad today. They were waiting for us on the outside of the terminal to take us to our hotel. We also met our friend Steve at the airport he will join us for 4-5 days of our stay here. We all rejoiced in seeing each other and being able to fellowship in the Holy Spirit in the car on the way to our destination of hotel Palace.
India is so different to Norway! When we left there was minus three degrees in Bergen and when we arrived at the hotel outside temperature was nearly forty degrees! Then you have the dust, the dirt, the smell, the cows, the camels, the goats and of cause the beautiful people everywhere! I find no words to describe the experience, but it is fascinating and captivating, and it is doing something with you, changing you, enlarging you, filling you with awe and with compassion. You see so many dear people suffer in so many different way and you see others enjoying such abundance of wealth that is beyond comprehension. Amazement and then bewilderment overtake you, then a feeling of helplessness creep up on you and the zeal of holy anger start burning inside of you. These wonderful people deserve something better than the curse of an old cast-system.

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