Going in Favor

As many of you know this trip was blanketed in prayer and the blood of Jesus. As the date came closer I began to pray that God would grant to us favor. Despite the delay at the airport, and the fact that I put Don's cell phone on seasonal before we left (bad mistake) we had several blessings that appeared on our 22 hour journey.

On the plane from Detroit - which was delayed on the run way for over an hour - I had the opportunity to sit next to a young man (probably my age LOL) who was going to be on our connecting flight to Beijing as well. I peered at the paperwork he was reviewing and saw that he was reading a term paper on "wealth management" - come to find out he was a professor in the U.S. who taught finance and economics at a Viriginia University. I read several of his students works and explained the difference between the text book examples and the "real" world. It was amazing to me that even through he had never actually managed wealth - he was attempting to teach our young people the principles of management.

Then we had the most delightful conversation on the changing economic condition of China and the U.S. He really helped to clear up some of my concerns of going to Asia. He explained that he moved to the U.S. 4 years ago and as he continued to return home to China he was happy to see that the mind and heart of China was changing. We talked about the polution issues - and how any industrialized country goes through the growing pains of progress.

As we landed at our lay-over we said goodbye and I was happy to have made a friend. Then as we "RAN" to caught our next flight - that we almost MISSED! We had a pleasant surprise. As we waitied in line with the other 500 passengers boarding an older business man came up and introduced himself - he was very pleasant. During our flight he came to check on us several times and when we landed in Beijing he explained where we had to go and what to expect.

Meeting these people in my eyes were divine appointments....we were very scared going to a foreign land where we did not speak the language, however, meeting these strangers helped us to relax and take in the experience.