(Minghui.org) I have practiced Falun Dafa for more than 10 years. Dafa is so incredibly precious and extraordinary. It’s a great honor to be a Dafa practitioner in the Fa-rectification period. Thank you, Master Li, for your compassionate care! Thank you, fellow practitioners, for your help and feedback!
I have an older brother and a younger sister. My sister lives in the south. I was laid off when I was in my 40s. I now run a small inn to make a living. My father was hospitalized due to a severe illness, so I hired someone to run the inn while I took care of him until he passed away.
After my father’s passing, my mother was hospitalized about three times per year due to heart problems. I had been busy taking care of her by myself for several years. During that time, I asked my daughter to move back home and run the inn with me. She was about seven months pregnant. A caregiver asked my mother if she only had one daughter. My mother said her son had no time to take care of her and only I could do it. My mother later died from a heart attack.
My mother had a house with three bedrooms. She stipulated in her will that the house was for my brother, and her money was to be evenly distributed between my sister and me. I assured my mother that whatever she decided, I wouldn’t fight over it.
Master said,
“If something is yours, you will not lose it. If something is not yours, you will not have it even if you fight for it.” (Lecture Seven, Zhuan Falun)
I kept Master’s words in mind and was calm about everything. However, my husband didn’t agree because he often brought my mother to our inn in the morning in order to take care of her and took her back home at night. He thought it was unfair. My brother eventually agreed to give us 50,000 yuan, although the house was worth 380,000 yuan. My sister-in-law also took my mother’s watch, which was worth about 2000 yuan. I told my daughter that we would follow the course of nature and accept what was given to us.
If I didn’t practice cultivation, I may have run around with the attachment to fame and gain, fighting over this and that. It was Master who changed me and taught me to take fame and gain lightly and consider others first.
When COVID-19 spread all over the country in 2020, people in our area were in a panic. Only Dafa practitioners knew that Heaven was issuing a warning and eliminating bad people. During the peak of the pandemic, the whole city was locked down. The entrances to residential areas were guarded, and no one was allowed to come and go without permission.
I didn’t know what to do. I had just prepared more truth-clarification materials, but I couldn’t go out. About eight days later, the lockdown was lifted. That night, after I sent righteous thoughts, I rode my electric bike, carrying about 200 brochures, and went out to distribute them in high-density housing areas. While distributing the brochures, I recited Master’s Fa in my mind. I was also thinking: “Sentient beings, Master told me to save you. Take these brochures to read. It’s your only hope to understand the truth!” I returned home safely after 9 p.m.
I sent righteous thoughts at noon the next day and went back to the places where I had distributed the brochures, retrieving any that weren’t taken and going to new buildings.
Some residential areas hadn’t lifted the lockdown completely, and the entrances were still guarded. I prepared about 40 brochures and went to a residential area by bike. Two guards were at the entrance. So I pushed my bike and was about to pass by when one guard questioned what I was doing. I said I was delivering some goods to my aunt.
He let me in, and I started to distribute the brochures from the top floor of the building. When I got down to the third floor, I was met by a woman opening her door as I was about to leave a brochure in front of her home. I calmly gave her the brochure and said, “I would like to give you this. I wish your family peace and health.” She took the brochure and went back. I finished distributing all the brochures and returned home safely.
Master protects and takes care of practitioners at all times. We can only repay his compassionate salvation by studying the Fa more and doing the three things well.