Leaving comments and impressions.


Four summers ago, during our trip to Chengdu, Sichuan Province PRC, we meet this wonderful young lady named Mia. Four years prior to our arriving, another group had been there. Mia's teacher had shared the words to Amazing Grace with her. Mia waited for four years to find more Westerners that could tell her the meaning to the song.


We shared the meaning with her and she thought it was the greatest thing. She seemed so happy, and joyous. One night a storm came up. A really big storm rolled in knocking out the power. So we sat in candlelight passing the time, when Mia came into the room and wanted to know more about Jesus, and so we told her. That night in the radiance of the candlelight, she accepted Jesus. As she was being prayed for she burst out in prayer, praying for those who were supposed to be praying for her. She laughed and hopped all around and shouted joyously all the way back to her dorm room where she continued to shout, "The Father loves me," from her window.


This was Mia. Since then she has been a children's Sunday School teacher, read the bible out loud in public, and proclaimed Jesus to all she has met. She has had some rough spots and through her faith she has been able to walk through them. Now she works for a Christian company where she is an aid to the editor. She is happy where she is, and feels so absolutely blessed.


This is a blog that I started so that I can leave my comments for all to read about my journey. Not my journey to Asia, but my journey with God. I have set this blog up so that you can leave comments about what you have read without having to register. By leaving comments you let me know that you have in deed read the blog, but more importantly, you are sharing you thoughts with me. We leave impressions wherever we go, like the footprints in the sand. And just like those footprints in the sand, when we turn around we only see one set through the troubled sands of time. Those are impressions of God. We may have shared with Mia, but it was God who left the imprint on her heart.

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