We Eat Disappointment for Breakfast On the Doorstep. I'm writing this from the Indian Visa office in Houston Texas. After weeks of getting no response from the visa office, we determined our best course of action was to apply in person. Disappointment. So after moving out of our homes, we loaded up in a van loaned us by a very good friend and fellow servant of Christ and started the thousand mile journey to Houston. Along the way, we visited our home church, Family Worship Center in Whitesboro Texas, and they prayed over us and sent us out. God also provided us with the most wonderful place to stay while we're here. A Christian couple with a small apartment next to their home has allowed us to stay with them. It is a beautiful place with sheep, a horse, chickens and dogs. We even got to help mow the fields and brush the horse. We arrived at the Visa office on Monday morning praying for God's favor and had the opportunity to meet with the absolutely perfect person in the visa office. She took our new applications and worked it so that we only had to pay again for two of the visas instead of all of them. Late Tuesday afternoon we received word our visas were ready. The timing was tight to be able to get to the visa office on time, but we prayed  and hoped God would make a way. We didn't make it. We arrived just 12 minutes too late and they only return visas in the afternoons so we would have to wait another day. Disappointment. We returned this morning, mostly to ensure that they didn't mail our completed visas back to Colorado. We found that two of the visas were not in fact ready. Disappointment. Then we also discovered that 3 of the ones we had were only for one year and not 10. Bitter Disappointment. All day we checked the status of the other 2 visas and hoped for news. And so here we are, camped out in the visa office now with news that we may hear something within the hour. Of course, if you listen to Joel Osteen, you probably believe that when you're working for God, things should go easy. It's easy even for those of us who know better to slip into the mindset that when we're in God's will He will open doors and level mountains and pave the road before us. Yet, most often in the Christian life, we in fact see the opposite. When Paul set his face to go to Rome, he knew that that was where God had called him to go. yet the path there led him through a mob trying to kill him in Jerusalem, arrest, years of imprisonment, shipwreck, and snakebite. I know in his place I would have often been tempted to wonder why all these things were happening if God had called me to Rome. But as cliche as it may sound, God's ways are not mine. He has never promised me that all things would go easy or right or even that things would not be impossible. He has promised that He is working all things for His glory and our good and that every disappointment, however bitter, will ultimately work to conform us to the image of Christ. So in that I rejoice. My heart's longing is to be more like Christ, so I can rejoice even in the bitterest disappointment. As closing time came,