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MOSAIC One Step at a Time: Finding the Faith to Move Forward in Darkness Monday, November 12, 2018 CHINA DAILY 22MOSAIC One step at a time: Finding the faith to move forward in darkness When the mountain trail province. And I never imag- boo? In fact, the very trail we thorns stretching down the facing a prickly field of thorns. place it among those thorns. dows from a house beside the you thought would take you ined that, in getting lost there, used to climb the mountain mountain as far as we could I worried that we might take But it turned out OK. And so road, announcing our return downhill sud- I would find something far had also disappeared into the see. the wrong step and tumble did the next move, and the one to civilization, waves of relief denly ends in a more important. woods, forcing us to impro- If we wanted to make it down, or fall into something after that. washed over me. While I told great snarl of While we had always want- vise a way through a dense back home, we would have to even worse than those thorns, With each small step of my husband we were fortu- thorny bushes, ed to reach the top, which cluster of bushes and trees. blaze our own way out of since we couldn’t see the progress, I found myself grad- nate, I also recognized it and it’s nearly drove us to hike there in the However, the summit there, in the dark. ground. How could we possi- ually gaining confidence — in wasn’t luck that led us out of dusk, you afternoon, we hadn’t planned appeared deceptively neat, As a lifelong hiking enthusi- bly move forward? our ability to make it home, the darkness. We did it. And know there’s for such a precarious descent. with a clearing and what ast, I had logged hundreds of “Just take one step at a and in ourselves. knowing that gave me a little trouble ahead. But our experience hiking seemed to be a far easier trail kilometers on trails in parks time,” my husband told me. Sometimes, it’s incredible more faith. Jocelyn That’s the around the village and its hid- winding down the other slope across the United States, my “Don’t worry.” It was his way how, in the midst of some- Eikenburg situation my den network of unofficial of the mountain. We thought home country, but never at of encouraging me to have thing fearful, we can still find Contact the writer at Second husband, Jun, trails should have prepared us it would be a fast, straightfor- night. And yet there we were, faith. the strength within ourselves [email protected] Thoughts and I faced for this possibility. How many ward trip back, until the trail trapped on the side of a Faith is something I’ve to move on and to believe, Online years ago times had we followed a well- petered out and left us strand- mountain in near darkness struggled with in life, and even if it’s just through one when we decided to summit trodden dirt path, only to ed in the remnants of aban- with no established trail at all. being on that mountain was a tiny action at a time. Scan the code the mountain at the center of have it stop in a thicket of doned fields swallowed up by I felt scared, beyond just the test for me. It took all of my When we eventually spied to hear an audio his rural village in Zhejiang weedy grass or a maze of bam- layers of weeds and crawling fact that walking ahead meant resolve to lift my foot and the soft white glow of win- version Candid Bilingual: Titanic II camera: Faces 泰坦尼克2号 on facets 中语 号称全世界最豪华的游轮——泰坦尼克号于1912年 Visitors pose in front of 在北大西洋上撞击冰山沉没,千余人死亡。近日，复原泰 a kaleidoscope during 坦尼克号的计划又一次被提上日程。泰坦尼克号邮轮的升 the Asia Design Management Forum 级版泰坦尼克2号定于2022年首航，将完成泰坦尼克号一 and Art Design Media 个多世纪前没有完成的航行。下面，请跟双语君 Festival in Hangzhou, 一起看看这个宏大的计划吧！ Zhejiang province, on Nov 1. LONG WEI / FOR CHINA DAILY CNN reported that a replica 。” of the Titanic will embark on its maiden voyage in 2022. The Guardian commented: 有 “If the Titanic was the ship 制 that was meant to be unsin- 于2022。 able, Titanic II is the idea that seems to be unkillable.” Titanic II will follow the same 英《》 route from Southampton, “ England, to New York that 一‘永’ the famed Titanic set off on 2一 in 1912. The project was 永。” announced by Australian millionaire Clive Palmer. More than 100 years after 2重走 the Titanic’s first and only 1912 voyage, global interest in the doomed ship shows no sign 最终约。这 of abating. 由・ 。 在 This Day, That Year 也一一一 Palmer wrote in a statement, “The ship will follow the 这运舛邮 。 Editor’s note: This year trend, Tencent developed Mean- original journey, carrying passengers from Southamp- years marks the 40th anniversary WeChat, an instant messag- while, the Another Titanic replica is of China’s reform and ing app for mobile devices, internet ton to New York, but she will on also circumnavigate the being built in Sichuan prov- opening-up policy. which now has more than 1 giant contin- ince. In 2014, China billion users. ues to find globe, inspiring and enchanting people while announced a plan to build a On Nov 12, 1998, Tencent companies worth more than In 2004, Tencent Holdings ways to life-size replica of the was founded in Shenzhen, $500 billion. went public on the main grow inter- attracting unrivaled atten- tion in every port she visits.” doomed Titanic as part of a Guangdong province. After Tecent’s success dates to board of the Hong Kong stock nationally, tourism development in 20 years of development, it the country’s dramatic inter- exchange. acquiring a 在一中 Sichuan. has become China’s social net boom in the 1990s, when Besides messaging products, 12 percent “这重走 之 在一 media and entertainment the population of internet its Honor of Kings is the first stake in 制正在 giant. It operates the hugely users surged. Its first product Chinese mobile game to reach Snap, the parent company of man in China, with a net 最终 约。与也 造中。早在2014中 popular social media plat- was OICQ messenger, later more than 10 million daily Snapchat. Earlier this year, it worth of $31.9 billion, accord- 在造 form WeChat and the hit renamed QQ. active users outside China. bought a 5 percent stake in ing to the real time Forbes 展。在一 一以游 games Arena of Valor and In the 2000s, China’s inter- It owns Riot Games in Cali- Tesla. China Rich List. The richest 真。 Honor of Kings. It is also the net went through a transfor- fornia and Finland’s Super- Ma Huateng, chief execu- man in China is Jack Ma, 众瞩 之。” first Asian tech firm to join mation from desktop to cell. Tencent also has a major tive of Tencent, has been $434.9 billion, chairman of OceanGate, a company from the exclusive club of tech mobile. To keep up with the stake in Activision Blizzard. named the second-wealthiest Alibaba. Blue Star Line said the nine- the United States, is plan- deck ship will have 835 cab- ning diving excursions to ins and will be able to theTitanic wreck next year. The newspaper and beyond accommodate 2,435 pas- 洋之已 sengers. Passengers will be 于展 able to buy first-, second- 游。 and third-class tickets — as On our Sina Weibo On chinadaily.com.cn they could on the original. The eight-day journey sets 运这邮 off from Newfoundland, Shaxian snacks gain popularity in New York Forum: Resume of involved in stress responses and 9有835 Canada, and will transport A Chinese restaurant chain, Shaxian Delicacies, serving Shaxian 5-year-old goes viral in turn promote blood vessel 2435。 visitors in a submersible county cuisine, a style of food from Fujian province, opened its first For all you overachievers out inflammation, according to the 一样以 made of titanium and car- eatery in the United States last month. Located at 818 60th St. in there, you might want to ques- study presented at the ongoing 一、 bon fiber to the mighty ves- Brooklyn, New York, the restaurant presents epicureans overseas tion whether your sacrifices American Heart Association’s Sci- 。 sel’s final resting place, with traditional Chinese snacks, including peanut butter noodles have been worth it, because a entific Sessions. The study more than 3 kilometers and pork wontons. All the dishes were sold out within three hours kindergartner might have you revealed that people with the It will be outfitted exactly below the surface of the on the first day. “In my childhood, food stalls could be seen every- beaten. A resume of a 5-year-old highest levels of chronic noise like the original Titanic — Atlantic Ocean. where in my hometown in Fuzhou,” said the chain’s owner, Shao boy in Shanghai has 15 pages, exposure, such as highway and including the grand staircase 这游 Binfang, a 34-year-old Chinese-American born in the provincial giving an elaborate overview of airport noise, had an increased that played a memorable 游 capital. “But this is just a small step for the company as it goes his personal hobbies and extra- World: Solar-powered risk of cardiovascular events, role in James Cameron’s hit 坐一载有钛 global,” Shao added. curricular activities (hip-hop, wagon made of waste such as heart attacks and strokes. movie. 制 piano, soccer) as well as things A Dutch couple is preparing to 这装 洋。最终 Parents in Shanghai serve as matchmakers he’s excelled at (literature, histo- drive to the South Pole in a People: Paralyzed girl 与一一样。 洋 Middle-aged parents in Shanghai flocked to “Matchmaking Corner” ry, science, math, arts and 3D-printed buggy made from builds online career 这中也詹・ 。 in Luxun Park on Oct 31, to gather information for their adult sons sports).
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