(Minghui.org) When a middle-aged woman ran into a Falun Dafa practitioner by chance, she was so excited that she cried, “I have been looking forward to meeting a Dafa practitioner for ten years!”
She told us her story.
Reading Zhuan Falun
In 2002, when the communist regime's propaganda against Falun Dafa peaked, she met her husband–a government official. He told her what Falun Dafa is all about and how the Chinese Communist Party deceived the public by framing the practice. Because of him, she got a chance to read Zhuan Falun.
After she read the book, she felt that she was very fortunate. She wanted to practice cultivation.
One day, her then-boyfriend (now husband) told her, “You know how much I can't stand the Communist Party and all the unsightly things they do. Just being a member–even if I don't do anything–is giving it energy to persecute kind people. So I decided to quit. However, the decision might be a dangerous one, and may cost my job or life. Do you still want to marry me?”
She replied, “Sure. You're a kind person. If I'm with you, I can learn to cultivate in Falun Dafa.”
They got married shortly afterwards.
Losing Connection to Dafa
Soon after, her husband's prediction came true. As a candidate for department chief, the fact that her husband quit the Party was seen as scandalous. Nobody understood him; everyone thought he was crazy. He lost his job.
To force him into giving up his beliefs, his father and cousin treated him as if she were in prison. They not only beat him brutally, but also put him under surveillance 24 hours a day.
His father and cousin had used the same tactics previously in order to force his mother into giving up her belief. However, it didn't work on her husband. So they sent him to a mental hospital, where he was forcibly injected with antipsychotic drugs.
As for his wife, the woman had expected to read Dafa books and practice cultivation with her husband. But she didn't even get a chance to learn the exercises, and the books were soon taken away from her. The pressure that her husband was suffering worried her, but she had no one to turn to. But no matter what others thought of her husband, she believed that he was sane and innocent.
Over the next eight years, her husband's family sent him from one mental hospital to another. Every time he returned home, he was always delirious due to the drugs he was forcibly administered.
The couple's income was taken by the husband's father and cousin and used to pay the husband's hospital fees. The economic and emotional stress on the wife was immense; she knew her husband was being mistreated, and she was lonely in his knowledge.
Reaching out for a sympathetic voice, she tried to find Minghui, where she knew that her husband had read Dafa articles before. She bought a computer, connected it to the Internet, and asked her husband to find the website for her.
But due to the drugs and mistreatment in the mental hospital, her husband was no longer himself. He refused to teach her, for fear that she would be persecuted as well, and got very upset with her.
She thought of moving to another place to escape this pressure, but her husband disagreed.
“The Communist Party is everywhere. It won't help,” he said.
A Dream Come True
She decided to leave by herself in search of other Dafa practitioners.
“I will definitely find Dafa and fellow practitioners! Just you wait!” she said to her husband.
She rented a house and opened a small business. In an effort to help other people understand the truth, she would write “Falun Dafa is good” on the money that came through her business. She spoke with other people sometimes, explaining why Dafa is good.
Year after year, she waited. It would go on like this for five years before she had the fortune to meet the practitioner mentioned at the beginning of the article.
And then she knew–she finally got what she's been waiting for! She felt that it was the best moment of her life. She could finally start practicing cultivation!
Her husband's abusive cousin and father-in-law died of throat cancer and heart disease, respectively. She believes that her husband will soon take up cultivation in Dafa once again.
