Namaste

I remember we were cleaning out the garage in El Paso on a Saturday afternoon. Now, you must understand that in El Paso the exact MOMENT you open you garage doors people from across the border show up for a yard sale you may or may not be having.  It is actually an amazing phenomenon that should be in the Guinness Book of World Records, because until you truly have seen it, you wont believe it.  The moment you push the garage door opener amazingly their are people standing their smiling and asking in really really fast Spanish what they can buy or have out of your garage.  Many days your simply taking the trash out and your left starring at the people in amazed curiosity of how they knew just when you would open the garage door.
This particular Saturday we were cleaning out the garage and something AMAZING happened.  No one came.  We looked up and down the street, we pushed the garage door opener several times (because we are sure they had it wired to and underground "get the Americans junk" alarm bell), but still no one came.  We shrugged and got to work.  Jeremy and I were almost done when an old beat up (really really beat-up) Chevy pulled up.   A Mexican couple climbed out of the old truck very slowly.  They pointed to the "junk" we had layed outside the garage.  They didnt speak one word of English, and my Spanish is well....lacking in most parts.  With Jeremy's help the elderly man loaded up the old paint cans, old towels, old tools, into the bed of his truck.  I stood with the edlerly woman who smelled of farm animals, sweat and spice.  She watched me as I attempted small talk in Spanish and nodded her head to indicate she had no clue what I was saying but I was a nice young girl for trying.  When the guys where finished the elderly man waved and got into the truck.  The woman turned towards me and smiled, the same smile she had given me during our little conversation, and then she took her entire hand and drug it over my face.  Then she said in very broken but beautiful English, "I see God on Your Face".  I replied, "Namaste".

Right there on the street corner of Kalpana Chawla, I understood the Eastern concept of, "Namaste".  Namaste is an Eastern Religious concept.  The people who use this concept bow to one another when they meet and say, "Namaste".  It can mean,  "That which is of God in me, greets that which is of God in you" or "I honor the place in you which the entire Universe dwells, I honor the place in you which is Love, Integrity, Wisdom and Pace.  When you are in that place, I am in that place in me, and We are One" or "I see the Face of God in You".  Its an amazing kinship greeting.  It recognizes that no matter what language you speak, what time or culture you have been raised in, wether you are male or female, young of old, that you can acknowledge and deep and powerful connection with other human beings becuase of that place in us that God dwells.  That place that God created in Genesis 2:7 when God "breathed the Breath of Life into his (Adams) nostrils, and the man became a living being".  That "Breath of Life" was the Spirit of God that he put into his creation.  We are connected because of our creator and that "Breath of Life". 
Eastern religions might use the concept of Namaste, but I believe it should be embraced by Christianity as well (an Eastern religion by the way).  We know this concept, we just use a different term.  We use "Fellowship" which is Kiononia, meaning communion by intimate participation.  And closely we use, "Abide in Him" which is Parameno, meaning to remain beside or near.  When we are in intimate participation with eachother while remaining close to the Godhead, then we see Namaste, we see God in eachother. 
1 John 4:12 No one has see God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us and His love is perfected in us.  
 John 14:20 I am in the Father, and you in Me, and I in you.  
To meet eachother, creations of the Father, and to be able to see what God wanted us to see, His IMAGE, is an amazing thing.  You can see God everyday, if you look for Him in his creations.  I pray that the Lord teaches me to see some white girl standing in front of her house on an odinary Saturday afternoon and stand amazed because I can say, "I can see the place in you which the entire Universe Dwells (the place that God exists in you...I am you I am), I honor that place in you which is Love, Integrity, Wisdom and Peace (Gods attributes) and when you are in that place, I am brought to my knees in that place that God gave me as well, and we become One because of our Creator"