Phoenix City Fengming: What I experienced and was grateful for on the way back to China to visit relatives (3)

Phoenix City Fengming: What I experienced and was grateful for on the way back to China to visit relatives (3) 3 Witness the Lord’s protection and gratitude all the way This time I returned to China to see a doctor because of the recurrence of leg arthritis...

Feng Ming from Phoenix City: Experiences and Gratitude on the Journey Back to China to Visit Relatives (3) 3 Witnessing the Lord’s Protection and Gratitude Along the Way This time I returned to China to see a doctor because of the recurrence of arthritis in my legs. It was difficult to walk and go up and down stairs. My daughter’s house did not have an elevator on the fifth floor. I was worried about the flight all the way. I secretly confessed in my heart and prayed for God’s mercy to open the elevator door for me. When I saw my daughter, she said to me with a mysterious smile: Mom, you are so lucky. The elevator in the house on the fourth floor has not been opened. You have to arrive today, and the "Business Department" will notify you in the morning to get the elevator card. You can live in the newly renovated fourth floor today, and the elevator is for home use. When you open the elevator door, you will be our own home. Your arrival has brought us this blessing. This fourth floor is near my daughter's community. It was bought by my daughter and son-in-law for their parents. It has been renovated for a long time. However, because there is no elevator, I have never come here to live in it. Because I want to go back, they asked someone to find a connection. On the morning of my arrival, the elevator was opened and I was allowed to move in. There is an elevator and it is well-decorated and everything is complete. My daughter's parents-in-law have not moved in yet, but I live in their new house first. Thank you Lord for having mercy on me, listening to my pleas and confessions, opening the elevator door for me, and solving my difficulty in going up and down the stairs. God is a God who listens to accusations. As long as you trust God with all your requests and thoughts, God will open a way for you! I haven’t been back to China to visit relatives for more than two years. This time I finally went back, but I couldn’t visit relatives and friends as I wanted. My eldest sister in Jiangxi and my second brother in Yantai couldn’t go to visit due to time constraints, long distances, and inconvenient movement. I felt very uneasy. After discussion, we decided that we would all gather in Jinan, and then go to our hometown to visit our parents’ graves together. This is really a good idea to get the best of both worlds. We brothers and sisters are all very old, so it is not easy to gather together. This time we can meet in Jinan and visit our parents' graves, which fulfills our long-cherished wish. When they came to Jinan, they were able to live with me in a new house with an elevator and talk about interesting childhood stories and the changes and misses in the past few years. This was truly prepared by the Lord for us. On the day of the tomb-sweeping day, my daughter drove early in the morning and took us, five old people, my brothers, sisters, and aunts, to the outskirts of the city. Because the suburbs of the city have changed a lot, the roads have been built wider, but the villages have changed their appearance. The residential areas of the villagers were renovated, and a wide asphalt road was opened between the village and the mountain. We searched for the path up the mountain based on our memory. We walked on the winding path for more than 20 minutes, but we could not find the cemetery. When we were exhausted and at a loss, an old man collecting firewood came down the mountain. After a closer look, he turned out to be a distant relative of ours. Isn't this an angel sent by God? Under his leadership, the cemetery was quickly found. It turns out that the mountainous areas are contracted to individuals to plant peach trees, and every piece of cliff land is covered with fences. It is really difficult to find them without someone to guide them. Fortunately, my parents' cemetery was not surrounded by a fence, but was blocked by many branches. My brothers, sisters, and aunts worked together to clean the gravestones, wipe them clean, and put flowers on them to express our condolences! It fulfilled our long-cherished wish. It was past eleven o'clock on the way back to the city. My daughter took us to lunch and sent us back to the fourth floor to rest. Age is really not forgiving. After going upstairs, everyone was so tired that they didn’t want to move anymore after sitting down. I advised them to just lie down and take a nap to regain their strength. I only heard them snoring sweetly after a while. This time, my eldest brother’s daughter and my niece went with us to sweep the grave. After everyone rested and recovered their strength, she invited us uncles and aunts to visit her home, and we all went happily. The name of the community where she lives is called "Leader City", which is quite impressive. Her house is a twenty-one-story building with a two-story basement and an underground garage. Her house is not very high on the fifth floor. From the spacious window, you can see tall buildings with more than 20 floors rising from the ground like a forest. The scenery is picturesque with mountains to the south. She showed me the handbags and mobile phone bags that she had recently hand-crocheted. After seeing them, I admired them very much and immediately offered to learn this craft from her again. My niece was very enthusiastic about teaching me, and before I came back, she bought me beautiful balls of thread in various colors. I really have to thank her for her good Xerox teaching. When I returned to China last time, she taught me how to make silk screen flowers and gave me a lot of materials for making silk screen flowers. This time she also gave me a lot of beautiful crochet threads. Although we are aunts, we are actually about the same age. We have been like sisters since childhood, playing together and growing up. People really live and learn. Unexpectedly, after retirement, I was idle at home, and started to learn to make trendy art. I was in a good mood, and I felt like I was sublimated by art. I really thank God from the bottom of my heart. As we grow older, you do not abandon us, but also allow us to learn some arts of building up people to cultivate our sentiments. Just as the Bible Psalm 94:15 says: "I was saying that I had stumbled, O Lord! Then your love sustained me." We sing heartily: "The heavens are yours, the earth is yours, for you established the world and everything in it." (Psalm 89:11) Let us give all glory and praise to God, who created the universe! (To be continued)