More Praise from Easter Sunday

We have really enjoyed spending time with Jun and his family. Jun is one of China’s top researchers in the area of liver, stem cells, and rats. Sounds complicated? Sometimes I try to help him proof read some of his English presentations and the medical words I can’t pronounce I just assume to be correct.
Our last spiritual conversation, a month ago, was about the differences between Catholic and Protestant beliefs and other random facts about the Bible. I always think of Jun as a person far too busy to study spiritual matters.
But God keeps surprising me with open doors.
Easter Sunday I had prepared a short summary of Jesus’ life, death on the cross, and resurrection. I had written it all down carefully on a piece of paper. Hoping to get some help from the audience, I was even going to try translating for myself because I knew the word for resurrection and crucifixion. I sat down on the bench in our newly discovered pagoda auditorium to review my story. Jun and his son Eric came and sat next to me. I said to him, “Today I am going to tell the story about Jesus.” And before I knew it Jun had the paper and he was reading and carefully teaching Eric the story sentence by sentence. When everyone had gathered for worship, I asked Jun if he would like to translate the story for me. He said, “Sure!” In half an hour Jun heard the story two times and taught the story two times, once to his son and once to the group gathered on Easter Sunday.
Matthew 13:31 “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. Though it is the smallest of all your seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and perch in its branches.”