MADE IN CHINA

Here is a good story.  In 2010, Vancouver, Canada hosted the winter Olympics.  As with any sporting event there was a huge demand for souvenirs and memorabilia.  Some of the competitions took place just blocks away from where I work and so there were mobs of people purchasing "Canada This and Canada That' to eventually return back home with.  On a coffee break,as I headed to my 'go to' sushi place, I passed a group of tourists from Asia that were making a big fuss about a Canada T-shirt that they were holding onto like an old friend.  A member of their party was telling passers-by that they KNEW this shirt!  This same T-shirt was not only made in the factory where the women worked but was  personally made BY the woman who was holding it!! Perhaps the tag held information that she was intimately familiar with or maybe she just knew her own machines' stitches, however she identified it was not as important as watching the look of joy and pride in the reunion as she held up the shirt for pictures.  Here she was half way around the world, in a place she hadn't been before, at an unfamiliar store, re-discovering something which had travelled independent of her of which she didn't know the destination of, then "HELLO"??!!   Which got me to thinking, you never know where or when a circle will come around again, and how something that is as mundane as a souvenir T-Shirt will cause  great wonder and happiness and come with such a history and a story to share with the world, and that after 12 years, here I am again.   God is full of surprises!