Here she is...

Wow!  Where to start, I don't know.  What a day it was.  I went from waking up this morning at 6:00 am, with major a panic/anxiety attack.  What was I doing, by myself, half way around the world?  Emailed my husband 3 times telling him that maybe this was a mistake that I came here alone.  What if things didn't go well?  Rick reminded me that this was a God thing, so all would be OK.  After the multiple emails, I decided I needed to pull it together and what better way to do that, than do my devotions.  So, what did God tell me through Beth Moore, today... I have an authority problem.  What I mean is that I trusted myself to plan this trip, but I wasn't trusting God's authority to finish the plan.  I needed to submit to his authority and have confidence that he wouldn't send Rick and I on this journey again, without having things under control.  OK, Lord, I will trust you. 

At 2:30, I hopped in the taxi and headed to the Northern Region Children's Home.  Got there in about 20 mins, so I was a bit early.  Alice, the social worker from Chung Yi was supposed to meet me at the gate at 3:00.  I kind of stand out here, so I wasn't able to wait without questions as to why I was standing at the guard shack.  A younger guy came up to me after one of the non-English speaking people motioned him over, because he did speak English.  I told him why I was there and he went back to the building and came out about 2 mins later with a rather young looking woman.  That woman turned out to be Yun-Qing's social worker.  They told me to follow them, so I decided  I better just follow and Alice would have to find me.

We walked into another building up the hill and into the  lobby area.  The young guy told me to wait in the conference room, but before I could walk into it, I saw Yun-Qing peek around the corner of the door next to the conference room.  She got a big smile on her face and started to giggle.  She didn't immediately come up to me, but I waved at her and went into the room.  She was right on my heels when I turned around.  She said Nihao and I started to cry and little and reached out to touch her shoulder as I returned the Nihao.  She started giggling again, and the young guy started to translate for us.  He told her for me that I was so excited to meet her and how very nervous I was.  I could tell she was actually happy that I was nervous, as she realized it was a big deal for me to meet her and saw the tears rolling down my face.  He told her I was crying because I was so happy; she just started to laugh some more and walked over and hugged me really tight!  I felt like I had just been part of a mircle.  I had met her for less than 5 mins. and she was ready to be my daughter!  Thank you, Jesus! 

The next 3 hours passed in a blurr.  Alice came in shortly afterwards and we all sat down in the room and started to talk.  Alice's English is excellent (lived in Canada for 12 years) so communication was not a problem. I gave Yun-Qing a shirt I bought at the mall today and a bracelet with half of a heart.  The heart says Little Sister and I told her that Lily has the other half that says Big Sister.  She thought that was pretty cool.  Yun-Qing then took me on a tour of the grounds of NRCH and we played on their playground for awhile.  Then we had dinner together, all three of us, back in the conference room.  After that, we talked some more, until about 5:45 when we walked back to the main building where her social worker from NRCH was.  They called a taxi for us and Yun-Qing walked us to the gate to say good bye. 

Yun-Qing is a happy girl!  Her social worker asked her is she was happy while I was there and she said she was very happy!  I would describe her as a monkey.  She's full of energy and reminded me of Lily, big time.  Talk, talk, talk...Laugh, laugh, laugh.  Once Alice and I were talking to each other, which evidently bothered her, because she told Alice that we had forgotten to include her.  Hahaha.  She wanted my attention and was clearly enjoying being the center of attention.

What a great day it turned out to be!  The only way the day could have gone better is if I would have chosen to trust.God's plan.  I think I'll make that choice much earlier, tomorrow!