(Clearwisdom.net)
I am nine years old. I thank our great and merciful Teacher for arranging for me to be born into a family where all members are Dafa practitioners. Under the guidance of my family, the influence of my environment, and due to my predestined relationship with Dafa, I was able to read Zhuan Falun thoroughly before I started school. Since then, in addition to studying the Fa with my Mom and Dad every day, I also study the Fa on weekends with practitioners who come to our home for the group study. Every time when I am among these practitioners, I feel even more like a Dafa practitioner.
My parents are very busy with their work. They spend most of their spare time doing Dafa-related projects. At the very beginning, I was not happy that Mom and Dad were so preoccupied with their commitments that they could rarely find the time to bring me out to play. After they learned how I felt, they started to search the Clearwisdom website for articles about cultivation experiences of young Dafa practitioners and read them to me. Gradually, I began to understand why my parents could not accompany me to play very often-- it's because they are busy saving sentient beings, just like all the other Dafa practitioners around the world are doing as well.
As time went by, I began to realize one thing: almost all Dafa practitioners I knew, including my parents, are doing some different Dafa-related projects. Some translate articles for the Dafa websites, some run the Truth-Compassion-Forbearance art exhibition, some go out to distribute truth-clarification fliers, some use e-mail and instant messages to clarify the truth, some fold the paper lotus flowers, and some prepare Dafa truth-clarification material.
Mom and Dad once told me, "Every Dafa practitioner is walking on his or her own path." For quite some time, this sentence had always lingered in my head. I thought: "Every Dafa practitioner is walking on their own path. I am also a Dafa practitioner, what is my path then? Though I'm still young, for sure there must be a road for me, too."
At the end of March of last year, I finally found my path after my "miraculous" participation in a concert! Two years ago, our school had a temporary music teacher who gave us a few violin lessons. However, the lessons were so few that I could not even play the basic musical notes. At the beginning of March in 2009, this temporary teacher unexpectedly gave my Mom a call and said that she wanted to invite me to play violin in a concert which was to be held at the end of the month and that we could decide which song I would play. I chose the song " Falun Dafa Is Good."
There were only four weeks left until the concert. Since the teacher had to guide many students that were taking part in the performance, she only gave me instructions on two occasions within these four weeks. On the day of the last rehearsal, the teacher was very satisfied with my performance of "Falun Dafa Is Good" and another Turkish piece that I played and chose me to perform a solo. However, when she learned that I had never participated in any violin training class and couldn't even recognize the musical notes, she was astonished. At that time, she realized that she had mistaken me for another kid when she invited me to perform at the concert. She sighed again and again: "This is incredible!" But I knew that this miracle was arranged by Teacher.
On the day of the concert, the theater was occupied to its maximum capacity of one thousand seats; even the aisles were filled with audience members. I was the youngest solo performer. When I played "Falun Dafa Is Good," there was complete silence in the theater. After I finished, I heard the warmest applause. When I went backstage, all the people there congratulated me and asked me for the name of the song. Several of my aunts (also practitioners) who came to watch the show with my parents told me excitedly: " Well done, Ayda! Tonight, you let so many people in the theater listen to the sound of 'Falun Dafa is Good.'" After I heard this, I was very happy.
Less than one week after the concert, I was invited to play solo in a celebration event held by a local community. The mayor and many journalists attended the gathering. I again played the song "Falun Dafa Is Good," and was even asked to play it a second time as an encore for the audience. That evening, two TV stations reported about the event on the local news, and "Falun Dafa is Good" that I played was broadcasted in its entirety. I could use the form of music to transmit the sound of "Falun Dafa Is Good" to the people-- this really made me very happy.
After these two activities, I made up my mind to play the violin well, so that I could transmit all the beautiful Dafa music to more people. I think that even if I could only play one song, I must play it with my best skills and bring the beauty of Dafa to people. As a young Dafa practitioner, I know I need to walk on my own path of cultivation, and on this path, I must do what I should do with the highest standard.
Thank you, compassionate Teacher, for all your help and the perfect arrangement. As a Dafa practitioner, I will walk my own path well and never let Teacher down.
