{"id":2934,"date":"2015-09-11T09:49:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T13:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crosscultural\/?p=2934"},"modified":"2015-09-11T09:49:48","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T13:49:48","slug":"a-divine-appointment-in-the-beijing-subway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/2015\/09\/11\/a-divine-appointment-in-the-beijing-subway\/","title":{"rendered":"A divine appointment in the Beijing subway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, our second full day in Beijing, we boarded the subway and headed to the Forbidden City. I was standing on the escalator when several people from our group asked for someone who could speak Spanish to join them. I immediately made myself known. A lady pushing her two-year-old son in a stroller asked where she could exchange her Euros for Yuan. \u00a0Ling (one of our leaders) provided the Yuan needed and soon the lady was walking with us.\u00a0 She was elated that I spoke Spanish and began telling me her story.\u00a0 \u201cAndr\u00e9a\u201d is a single mother who works as a nurse and was traveling to Beijing on her vacation. She didn\u2019t speak Mandarin and knew little English, which resulted in no breakfast, poor lodging conditions and a morning\u2019s struggle of trying to get to the Forbidden City.\u00a0 Not too long into our conversation, she asked me where I learned Spanish. I responded that I had lived in Cusco, Peru for six years. Her facial expression changed from curiosity to deep joy and then tears of gratitude as she told me that she was from Cusco. She had been praying for someone who spoke Spanish, and God went above and beyond to meet that need.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/09\/DSC_0490.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2930\" src=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/09\/DSC_0490-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0490\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/09\/DSC_0490-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/09\/DSC_0490-1024x705.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I wondered what she was doing in China with an energetic toddler who would constantly jump out of his stroller and escape through the crowds.\u00a0 Andr\u00e9a was recently divorced and traveled to distract herself from life.\u00a0 Andr\u00e9a\u2019s faith was so strong and she believed that God would take care of her.\u00a0 She explained that though she once was a Seventh Day Adventist, she was no longer tied to a specific religion, but strongly wanted her son to have faith in God. Andr\u00e9a and her son, Inti, entered the Forbidden City with us, but once we were inside we split ways.\u00a0 It was very clear to me that this was a divine appointment used to help Andr\u00e9a and to build both of our faiths.<\/p>\n<p>I left thinking, <em>God has such a great sense of humor<\/em>. Living in China has been a dream of mine since I was nine. I had been asking God what I could do in China with my God-given gift of Spanish. 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