![]() ![]() She stood no nonsense and soon had Gladys up cleaning floors, tidying rooms and readying for local visitors. The people of the village were less welcoming, calling her a “foreign devil” but Mrs Lawson was well used to this, having been in China for seventy years. It was to become The Inn of the Eight Happinesses based on eight virtues: Love, Virtue, Gentleness, Tolerance, Loyalty, Truth, Beauty, and Devotion. ![]() When she eventually got there, the old worn buildings of her new home welcomed her with open doors. When she arrived in Tsechow, the woman she was supposed to meet, Jeannie Lawson, wasn’t there so she had to travel to Yangcheng on a donkey, without knowing a word of Chinese! Even in the tiredness from her journey, she was determined to reach Mrs Lawson thinking, if Jesus could travel on a donkey to Jerusalem then she could travel to Yangcheng. I find this an amazing act of selflessness that shows how much God can do in us. ![]() She spent her life savings on a train to Tsechow, think of all the things she could have done with this money, but she chose to spend them on God’s work. Gladys was just a normal woman, a parlour maid in fact, and yet God chose her as a leader of some of his people and an ambassador for Christ. I have found great inspiration from her amazing story which has been told through several books and a movie called The Inn of the Sixth Happiness. Let me take you back in time and across the world to China, in the 1930’s where Gladys Aylward was sent by God to do the magnificent. ![]()
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