New Year's and Junk

We're celebrating New Year's Eve with friends and black-eyed peas, rice, cornbread, and collard greens. Now anybody who's lived here for any amount of time knows that you have to soak your vegetables in potassium permanganate before eating them so that you don't accidentally eat dangerous bacteria.

Today, my friend Cortney mentioned that we wouldn't have to soak the collard greens because we're going to pressure cook them, which will "really get all the junk out." It made me think that maybe India is our pressure cooker. My prayer is that God will use our being here to help get a lot of junk out of us too.