can’t wait to share with you a short documentary type video of the orphanage life in Yu-Lin…stay posted!

- Wow, I am 29 years old? Wow, I’m finally done with schooling? Wow, someone allowed me to be a doctor? Wow, I’m getting married in a year? My body looks and feels 29, but why does my heart and mind still feel like I’m 9?

- Feeding off Alberta’s last post. I dislike golf. I really really dislike golf, especially with self-centered, money hungry, UN-genuine business types from Asia. However, I find myself at this ritzy, 5-star country club resort every time I visit HK where my dad is a member. His life is golf, so I drag my feet most of the time all the way there, to spend quality time with him. There was no difference this time around, as I dreaded going there for a night and playing two rounds of golf, meeting jerks at the driving range, eating sit-down meals with people I don’t respect, etc…but I was SO pleasantly surprised! God is awesome. During my first morning there, I played golf with a 26 year old kid, who’s sister is married to the man that owns the entire country club and resort…another one of those Asian billionaires with not much concern for others. This kid had to be a jerk, right? I was so wrong. Alberta and I definitely made a new friend. This was part of an email I just received from him. I’m smiling inside that God allowed me and gave me the privilege to be a small and tiny light in his life (note: we played some tennis after golf):

Very Nice to get to know you and your sister ALberta, you two are such great people, and doing such great and meaningful stuff at your age to help those poor kids, Meanwhile, i feel bit embarrassed since all i m thinking is to earn money to feed my self. Well, i read your website and it seems that i had another lesson of life again, which is good..lol. By the way, it was great to play tennis with you people, i enjoyed alot, but it would hav been much better if we had more time to play together, i guess i am addicted already by just a short practise with you people. Any way, i m sure we ll meet on the court again, hopefully by the time you ll see a different tennis player, haha..

- We are leaving for Yu-Lin, China later this morning. Not looking forward to the 8 hour drive. My body feels exhausted after arriving in HK 3.5 days ago, traveling to China a day later, playing golf and tennis, going back to HK that next day, and leaving again for China less than 24 hrs after; however, my spirit is excited and full of energy! I pray God continues to surprise me on this trip in glorious ways. I can’t wait to see the kids and staff of the orphanage. Thank you to EVERYONE who has partnered with us, because without you none of this could happen so smoothly.

Always looking up with great anticipation,
Dan

I look at the world around me, the nation of China, and my heart aches. This country is incredibly lost. Lost in corruption, false gods, deception and complacency. I realize that most people around me here do not have what I have – an eternal outlook. This realization soothes my soul; I am reminded that this life is short and I continually look forward to eternity with my Jesus, with my Savior. At the same time, my spirit cries, cries for the lost souls around me. I pray to show the love of Jesus to those around me, but only with His strength, because I am so very weak.

This verse has been on my heart:

Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

2 Corinthians 4:16-18

-Al