This morning began with worship at the Christian Media Centre--that will be covered in a separate post coming later...

First, we will cover second...the shopping excursion from this afternoon...

Many more roadside pieces of advice were scene ("scene" spelled here this way is not British...it is just a typo I didn't feel like fixing...) and will be reported upon...

• "Devices Are For Your Safety Use Helmets"--like most driving laws in India it is really just a recommendation...

• "Don't Jump Signal You Will Be Penalised"--as opposed to the "scene" above, the "s" is not a typo...everything gets an "s" over here because of the British influence...the penalty for jumping signal is going around and replacing all the "s's" with "z's"...

• "Stop Aggressive Driving"--what? and stop the country in its tracks...
  

• "Avoid Rash Driving"--there is a very slight, yet technical difference between "aggressive driving" and "rash" driving"...another week of observation and I will be able to let you know what that difference it...
  

• seen on a dentist office--"Painless Dentist"--I got a postcard from my dentist just before leaving home...I think I'll get my check up over here since the guy promises to be painless and I know I usually come out of Dr ____'s office in some pain...
  

• "Driving Faster Can Cause Disaster"--it rhymes in English...but I wonder if it rhymes in Tamil...or Urdu...or any of the other couple dozen languages spoken in India...
  

• "Follow Lane Discipline"--Oh!! The lines on the road mean something? And just for pondering's sake...do sidewalks count as lanes?
  

• seen on a store billboard--"Customer Service is Our Motto"--I'll give a free pass to so many choice comments I could make about American Customer Service and just say...six people were involved in my transaction at the jewellery (2 "l's" is a British thing also) counter in a store earlier (WENDY: don't let the above sentence make you think I was getting anything for you....especially with our anniversary coming up in a couple weeks...)
  

• "Reduce your Stress When You Drive Be A Courteous Driver"--the same guy from the California Tourism Department who came up with their "clean and green" slogan must have given them a two-for-one special...
  

• After eating lunch at an "authentic" Chinese restaurant that didn't give us a fortune cookie (which may be "authentic"...I don't know having never been to China...), we saw several nice thoughts painted on the wall of a church across the street, including...
  

• "The One Who Borrows Money Buys Quarrel" and "No person is so empty as the one who is full of self"

Shopping was an amazing experience...but several of the ladies are better equipped to cover that topic...so I will not even make an attempt...

Drew made the observation that the traffic outside the store was "One Big Traffic Jam"...which made me wonder if that was true...or if it was two small traffic jams just looking like one big traffic jam....

I told you they were random thoughts on the passing scene...and with that one I will pass from the scene to think about how to convey God's action in worship this morning...back with more after I process all that God has been doing....