This morning we visited the Lama Temple, which is a Buddhist temple that boasts the largest Buddha at 18 meters high. It was built by the same family who built the Forbidden City and the architecture is very similar, so I won't bore you with more pictures of roofs and doors. As we were walking around, the supplicants were offering incense and I was reminded of a verse in Psalms "He will not let your foot slip--He who watches over you does not sleep; indeed he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep" (Ps 121:3-4). It just struck me how all these people were offering prayers and petitions to wood and gold, when the Ruler of the earth is always ready to hear them.

On the way out I spotted the birds and then the cat and the rocks and I thought about Luke 19:40 "if they keep quiet even the stones will cry out". I thought, here, even in a place that gives no thought to God, that deliberately seeks to worship wood and not the One who made the wood, even here are creatures singing songs to the Creator and stones ready to break into praise.

After our trip to the temple, Grandma, Julianna and I made a trip to the Philip Hayden Foundation to take soy formula and size six diapers. We got a short tour of the facilities and met some of the children, who are super cute. It is very modern and nice looking and the children all look well loved and cared for.