Happy Easter

Happy Easter to all my friends and family.

Sunday morning the hotel lobby was decorated with thousands of white flowers: lilies, anthuriums, roses, fresias, and blossoms I had never seen before. These arrangements stood ten or twelve feet tall!



It would be nice to think that the hotel was decorated for Easter, but actually it was for the engagement of the general manager's daughter the night before. There was a big celebration, and no expense was spared for the occasion.



Whatever the reason for the white flowers, it was nice to be reminded of purity, new birth, and resurrection. I hope that your Easter was good and that you got to attend church with family or friends.

India is a mostly Hindu country with a very large Muslim population and then a small Christian minority. Here in Mumbai, a major metropolitan city of eighteen million people, there are church services in English, Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, and Telegu.