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12/15/2008 |
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REFLECTIONS ON TIME IN BEIJING |
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This may be the first of many reflections on the time we have spent here in Beijing. Tomorrow this chapter ends as I will take the flight home after two and a half years on our amazing China adventure. The movers came Thursday and Friday and I have spent the last few nights in a hotel wrapping up loose ends and saying goodbyes to many of our special friends. Time does not allow for me to see and say “zaijian” to all I have come to know and love.
But I now have had many lasts. My last ISB board meeting, my last weekly office meeting at Compassion for Migrant Children (CMC), my last Sunday at Capital Community Church and the lunch with close friends afterwards, my last weekly meeting with my mentor, Rick Laymon, my last Friday night small group, my last lunches with my “younger brothers” Trip and John, my last weekly English class at Jenny Lou’s Grocery Store, my last Chinese lesson, my last motorcycle ride, my last foot massage, my last “real” Chinese food, my last “movie night” with Rick and Kathy, my last Taco Tuesday with Steve Pittman, my last Men’s Fraternity lesson with “the guys”, my last times with CeCe’s boys and girls, my last ride with our driver Tao and his Navy Blue Buick mini-van with license 49764, my last hug from our sweet ayi, Xiao Feng, and that is not the last, last. There are many, many more.
If life is about relationships, then our life in China has been remarkably blessed. I cannot count the stars any easier than the number of friends we have made in this short stay. Our lives are forever changed and touched in ways we don’t even know. That is why this is only the first of the reflections on our time here in Beijing. As we settle back in Dallas we will see how our experience here will have a deep impact on our future experiences at home in the States. It will be revealed one layer at a time what lessons we have learned.
I am ever so thankful that my loving family supported this decision to obey the call we were given. As we knew to come, we also know it is time to leave. Life is a series of “one day at a time’s”, so we do not know when we will be back. I feel certain that we will to experience more chapters in the book of our lives.
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posted time 9:10:04 AM |
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