Guangzhou Day 2

Pics: Outside of cultural museum and an artist who wrote our names in Chinese characters.

Today we went to a cultural museum. Turns out that the Chen family is the most prolific Chinese family and the most wealthy. Way back they built a private ancestral worship temple which was also a school for their children. Now it's a folk art and cultural museum where you can see demonstrations of Chinese art styles and old carvings and relics so I fit right in.

After that we went to a tea house where we learned more about tea than I ever wanted to know. It's a big deal here.

Cute moment of the day came at the tea house. I was carrying Gracie and I asked her 'where's ba ba?' and she smiled and took her little hand and patted my chest. It's a good thing she doesn't yet know how to ask for stuff because she had me right in the palm of her hand and could have asked for anything and she probably would have gotten it.

The rest of the evening is free for us so we'll relax and mentally prepare for the TB test results tomorrow. Please pray it goes well so Gracie doesn't have to endure the ordeal of a chest xray.

Pray for Diana to be healed of her cold quickly.

I was pondering today about how blessed we are. Everyone who sees Gracie comments on how beautiful she is and how they can't even tell why she's considered a special needs child. She is an absolute wonder and its clear to us that Jesus hand picked her for our family even before she was formed in the womb. While we'll probably never know why her birth parents made the decision to abandon her at that car wash 29 months ago we feel blessed to be chosen as the agents of her redemption from an uncertain future and that no matter what happens from now on her life will be better than it would have been and so will ours. Who knows but she may grow up to own a whole chain of car washes now wouldn't that be a God sized turn about and a big ol' black eye to the enemy who tried to destroy her!

Speaking of which apparently the devil checked out of the hotel I haven't seen him at all today. Maybe he got swine flu since the last time I saw him he was with a nurse and doctor. Serves him right.