it a beautiful thing to hold something with open hands and see what god does with it...really what he does with your obedience in not holding on to something that was his in the first place. we had a really good meeting today at sari bari...one that i think will change the direction of sari bari in a good way....i was really prepared to let sari bari go at least in kalighat because i wondered if some of the issues we are having are possible to overcome...so i came up with a new plan and presented it to the ladies today and they really received it pretty well...i felt like we were all given back something that could have been lost to all of us.
and i saw hope in the eyes of one of the ladies...hope that was not thier yesterday. And in some ways i came down pretty hard today...made some strict rules and reminded them that freedom can not come from me or anyone but themselves. through the work freedom with come, through building a relationship with jesus freedom with come, but they have to stand on their feet and grab hold of freedom with their own hands. and i told them it will be hard but we will help them but only to the extent that it empowers..strange to me in some ways that by my being stricter they seem to now feel more secure...i hope this continue tto be the case.
there is some much more work to be done...we are starting additional training this month for the ladies as i think i said i think will help bring them along in the freedom and restoration process.
i feel really really thankful and really very much like my prayers of the last couple days have been answered...
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