Train Ride from Guangzhou to Hong Kong

Last night we said our goodbyes to the friends we had made while in Guangzhou. Christian shop owners, other adoptive families, foster family, and Steve Shattuck (from Grand Rapids) traveling on business. Each one has played a special part in the precious memories made while waiting for Benjamin's paperwork to be completed. Today after packing up, we along with the Meyer family and their newly adopted son, Eli, left for the train station located in the heart of Guangzhou. Our interpreter went to retrieve our son's passports while we waited for the four o'clock train that would bring us to Hong Kong. Four adults and three kids lugging six large suitcases, six backpacks, one stroller and some art work. We were a motley looking group standing out with our fair hair and skin, lugging our baggage with three Asian kids in tow through customs, into elevators and finding our way out through the train station into the major metropolis of Hong Kong. We didn't exactly know how we would get to our hotel as we'd need more than one taxi for our family alone. Up walks a man who offers to take us to our hotel 35 minutes away for 450 Hong Kong dollars($60 U.S.) Art does the math and realizes that two taxi's would cost even more money so we said our good byes to our traveling companions whose hotel reservations were different from ours. We loaded up our excessive amount of luggage into the trunk of his 1948 Mercede's limo and off we went to the Marriott Skycity Airport Hotel. Viewing the city lights and spectacular mountains surrounding Hong Kong held our rapt attention for the precarious ride. I later asked Art how he knew it would be safe to hop into someone's car without having made a prior arrangement. He said, "That's easy, I asked God to provide something."
We just fed and bathed the boys tucking them in for the night. Once again, we have a bathroom big enough for two chairs which allows us a place to talk after the lights go out for the boys. Together we run through the events of our day. We realized how each detail had worked out in order to get us where we needed to be. We thanked God for allowing us the opportunity to see Him make Himself known even down to the details of our ride to the hotel. We marveled together over His goodness as we processed the past two weeks. We asked ourselves what would it take to continue to live more daily by faith once we leave this place rather than living life with such determined self sufficiency as we tend to do when life is daily or predictable. As we continue to process, we hope to never forget the miracles of His hand at work here in China.