Everyone seemed to be in a very upbeat mood this evening.
My 6:00 pm group of first to third graders were all lined up
to read the sounds, words, a sentence or a paragraph to me,
depending on their individual level.
One of the twins, a first grader, KC, came up with a question
that I didn't quickly catch.
Me: "Yu Huang what?" I thought he was asking about a place.
Everyone: (laughing) " Yu Huang Ta Ti!"
It was always so easy to make this age group laugh, especially whenever I mispronounced a Chinese word, so I got my paper and asked them to repeat it as I scribbled the Chinese phonetic symbol.
Once again I earned another laughter because I was not writing the Chinese character when I should be at this age.
Me: "What is that?"
KC: "The god that we 'pai pai' " ( clasping hands and bowing his head).
Me: " I did not get your question. Can you say it again?"
KC: "I said, who is greater, your God or Yu Huang Ta Ti."
Me: "Oh! that! Ok, well, why don't you ask Yu Huang Ta Ti about it?"
KC: "Will he talk to me?"
Me: "You can try it tonight. Ask Yi Huang Ta Ti to answer your question in a dream."
"But," I continued, " It would be my God talking to you if you dream of a cross."
More laughter..
KCh: " Teacher, I know you believe in Jesus. Have you heard him speak?"
Me: "Oh yes! Do you want to know how?"
I Picked up the Chinese Bible on my desk and
randomly opened it to a page and read a verse. I cannot now recall what it was.
K Ch: (standing closer to me.) " May I touch it?"
Me: "Of course."
K Ch: "Does it have phonetic symbols? I want one!"
Me: "Let's try another verse okay?" "We can ask Him to speak to us and then read the Bible."
Again, I opened the Bible
at random and this was what I read out loud:
因為我是 神 再沒有別神
I cannot tell how the children took it. There were laughters. My God surprised me with it.
It is one thing to say "Let's look at Isaiah 45:22" and read the verse to them, but it really did not occur to me to give KC that answer. My God did speak for Himself!
