Dinner Chinese Style and Our Whole Family
Tonight may have been a picture of what is to come for our family.
Our Whole Family!!!
We had dinner with a Chinese great aunt and her nephew. It was interesting to say the least! The nephew was a Chinese boy that has become friends with our oldest son. Neither speak each other’s language, but when you are playing in dirt with sticks, plastic dinosaurs, and hot wheels, who needs English or Chinese language.
Fun and a few basic words is all the talking you need.
Last week we invited Wei (the Chinese boy) over for some spaghetti and breadsticks, which he tried to eat with chopsticks. So tonight was our turn to be the guest. Wei’s great aunt, who we thought was his grandma, invited us over for a real Chinese dinner.
And when I mean real, I mean real!!!!!!!!!
Here was the menu:
- Cold Chicken, complete with chicken feet and every other imaginable body part
- Some kind of bean or beef paste sauce
- Jiaozi: Spelled in way the it sounds to this non-Chinese speaker
- Dried beef (which Levi so nicely put in his mouth and spit back out on the table in front of our hostess)
- Some kind of prune – fig juice
- Cucumber slices (the only thing Davis ate)
- Blue Berry Yogurt Drink
- Cherries
What an honor to eat this wonderful dinner with this older Chinese lady and her nine-year old nephew! Did we nibble our way through the meal? You better believe your chicken feet. But it was such an honor to be in this country, in this city, and in this lady’s home eating her best she had to offer.
So here is the really cool part!
We were done eating and my wife, who speaks a pretty mean Chinese for having lived in this land for only 10 months, somehow says that she had prayed for something that had happened, and this great aunt lets my wife know that she is a believer.
What a blessing to find this believer through a relationship started by my son and his Chinese friend! Isn’t that just how the King works? He small beginnings, plastic dinosaurs, and seven-year old boys from Texas to bring glory to his name. He used my little boy in China to encourage the faith of a older Chinese believer and her little boy, and let her know that His people are everywhere.
Long story short…
HE brought our whole family here to not just shine the light in the darkness, but magnify the light that is already present in different parts of the nation.
Thank you Father for once again blessing us!
