Today we got up early and took a separate sightseeing tour from our travel group. We set off to see Tiananmen Square and the Palace Museum. Since
everyone in our travel group arrived a day earlier than us they had
already done that part of the tour and were off to climb the Great Wall.
So Tiananmen Square is big. I don’t know what else to say. Our
guide, Dan Dan, was very sweet and knowledge but she talked so fast
that I couldn’t really grasp a lot of what she was saying.
Dan Dan the guide, not my guy, Dan Dan, also loved taking pictures of Dan and I. Whenever we came to a landmark or just something she thought we should take a picture of, she would take a picture of us from every. single. angle. In the three hours we were with her I think she took more photos of us than we took of just the two of us on our whole last trip to China.
Prayer Requests
Tomorrow we become parents once again. We will leave Beijing at 7:45 am. We will fly to Shaanxi, Noelle’s province. We will drop off our belongings, exchange money and then get her. We still do not know specific times or any other informatiioin but today is Noelle’s last day living in her orphanage. Life as she knows it changes tomorrow. As exciting as one would think it should be for her, just think about for a minute. She does not know any other way of living. Her orphanage is
home. The sights, sounds, smells and noise will be so foreign to her. Two
white people are now her caretakers and the one she gets to call mother
has been sick and sounds like, Dixie the local bar fly. (Seriously, my
voice is pretty bad. Our guide last night asked me if I wanted him to
take me to pharmacist to look at my throat)
Please pray:
that her heart is prepared.
she is ready to have a Mama and Daddy.
that she will let us comfort her and love her.
that Dan and I can handle the grief that she will most likely experience.
that we know the right things to say and do. There won’t be a lot of what we can say so pray that she will just know that we are there for her.
Praying for you guys and Noelle tomorrow/today that things would go smooth. This is the next chapter for your family and for this little child that you would get to a small part of a rescue plan, of HIS rescue plan. The miracle of deorphaning children.
ReplyDeleteLifting you all up in prayer. Trusting that He will (continue to) carry you all! Love & Blessings, Kim
ReplyDeleteDanae & Dan,
ReplyDeletePraying for you ~ I remember feeling some of those same thoughts about the day we met Selah...I will be praying for your sweet girl and that she'll somehow know that she is safe with you and in time, she'll bond with you. You guys are amazing parents and have been through this before, so I just know you are going to do great! Praying for you!
Pam Askew
Praying!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI have been thinking of you a lot! Praying for you both and Noelle, that all will go well and her heart will be prepared.
ReplyDeleteSo I love that Dan and Danae are being guided around by Dan Dan. :) We are praying for all of you today. SO excited to meet Noelle!!
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