Today Susan and I arrived in Venice. We left Vancouver yesterday afternoon, touched down in Amsterdam for a few hours and then set out for Italy. The flight on KLM airline was uneventful, and that's always good news.
The young Chinese woman beside ie told an interesting story about her childhood where she lived just outside North Korea
After the Americans were there to fight the Korean War they left behind a new strain of bugs. Very big white bugs which flourished in their forests. As an annual assignment every Chinese child was required to go on a school field trip. They each had to kill 100 of the big insects (this girl was frightened by the bugs so always went with the boys who loved their assignment. She cheered them on and counted the bugs in their jars while they did her work). The kids in her town still do that today and most of the invaders have been eliminated!
I thought her story was a great illustration of the power of a church or family praying together against certain evil invasive spirits who try to dominate in our area of influence. If we all agree and work together we can defeat a very big and seemingly impossible enemy!
We're landing in Venice now. I'm looking at the patchwork of farms beneath our plane. Its a sunny warm day outside. Our friends are waiting for is at the hotel. After we land we take a boat ride down the canals to where we are meeting them. Its 4:30 pm here now
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