Osanna

Each morning, the hospital staff has chapel. The service begins around 8:20ish and lasts 15-20 minutes. Most everything is conducted in Hindi. However, for the first time this week, we sang part of a song in English…it was wonderful. Part of the thrill was the song we sang… “Hosanna.” This may not mean much to many of you, but to those of us who learned this song in Russian, and sang it day after day in Ukraine (because it was basically the only thing we knew in Russian), it brought back special memories…even tears. For an instant, I was transported back to the little orphanage at Loubetin and the friends we have made there. Seems funny, doesn’t it... to be in one country thinking of another? Maybe I should up at the end of the song and proclaimed "Slava Bogu!" (My Russian is way better than my Hindi...and that doesn't say much!)