Returning home to Canada after being in India for 7 weeks is like entering another 'world' of understandings, customs and thinking. Stay tuned for the next post on how North Amercia's climate of culture and emphasis on material goods is different from India's deep-rooted tradition on the G-word (God).

In India, spirituality tends to permeate through the air like the aroma of a good cup of coffee. People talk openly about God and it is not meant in a literal way. God may mean the blue sky, eternity and a beautiful sunset. It is generally understood and assumed that God created everything. Because Hinduism gives rise to many different faces of God it is hard to know as a Westerner which one is being spoken about. However, this is precisely the point: God's image is not fixed on an exact form or vision like many Western images of God tend to be.