Merry Christmas! Sorry it's late....

Well, Merry Christmas everyone! My tidings are a bit belated, but they still count. I have a special Christmas gift to all my faithful blog readers: a story! It's called "One in One Billion" and it's a fiction story I just wrote recently about a girl in China. So, without further ado, here's your late Christmas present.


One in One Billion
by Elora
We watched as people slowly trickled into Ai Mei's house for service that night. Once everyone was accounted for, we began by singing and praising God. There was a lot to be thankful for since everyone was there safe. Next, Ai Mei pulled her worn Bible, with its cracked cover and fragile pages out from under her pillow. She was the only one who had a Bible out of the whole group. We talked about the first three chapters of Acts and how many people had become Christ-followers in those first years of Christianity.
Then Ai Mei invited anyone who wanted to tell their story to stand and tell it. Surprisingly the first person who chose to stand was a young girl. She couldn't have been any older than fifteen, yet there was a look of maturity that could be seen in her countenance. Her brown eyes sparkled as she began to speak.
“Once, I thought that I was only one of one billion. That is, until the day I learned about the Father who made us, loves us and knows us all.”
She said her name was Lai and she was thirteen years old. This is her story:
When she was walking to school one day, behind the other students, she began to think that she was not very important. The lessons that week had been about the immenseness of China. Lai wondered how anyone could know she existed out of one billion people. If she disappeared, would anyone know other than her parents?
On the way home, she saw a family from America. There was a fair-haired man and a woman with brown hair. Three blue eyed children followed behind them. The most curious part, though, was that the woman was carrying a Chinese baby. Lai knew it was not polite to pry, nor was it safe to talk to strangers, but she felt she had to know more about that family.
“Is that your baby?” She asked in her best English.
“Yes, she is,” the man replied, looking at Lai.
“I do not mean to be rude,” she said, “ but she does not look like the rest of your family,”
The woman spoke next, “ We adopted her just this week.”
“And we've been waiting so long to meet her!” Exclaimed the smallest blue-eyed boy.
“She is our special gift from God.” Declared the man, stroking the baby's head.
Lai went home, her head spinning. That family had loved and waited for a little girl that they had never met. Did anyone care for her like that? She knew that her mom and dad loved her, but she didn't get to see them very much because they were always at work.
When she arrived at her grandmother's house, where she was staying for the night, the old woman greeted her at the door. The girl bowed and went into the guest room, setting her things on the bed.
“Grandmother,” asked Lai when she emerged from her room, “Who is the God that the Americans worship?”
Her grandmother's brown eyes lit up with a light that Lai had never seen before. In the next hour, the woman explained her own faith in God to her granddaughter who listened with open-minded attention. That day, Lai became a child of God. When she returned home, she talked to her parents about God, and in that same month, they to became Christians. The grandmother brought them to Ai Mei's house meeting because Ai Mei was Lai's aunt.
Lai ended her story with these words, “Now I know that I am not just one of one billion, but one in one billion; one who Jesus would go out of his way to find.”

Keep on glowing in the dark,
Elora

Christmas play

I went to our church Christmas play tonight. It was called "Granddad's Christmas" and it was really funny and touching. My only regret was that I couldn't be in it again like I was last year. If you haven't seen it yet, you should definitely try to go!!!

Keep on glowing in the dark,
Elora

8 projects

This week at school, I had 8 projects. Unfortunately, my teacher is coming over on Thursday, so I had to finish all 8 papers by then. I just got them finished today. I feel very victorious!!
Keep on glowing in the dark,
Elora

Christmas Choir!!!!!!

Wooohoooooo!!! I am so exited for the Christmas choir at church this year. Christmas songs are great.
Keep on glowing in the dark,
Elora