(Minghui.org) In 2004, my sister-in-law and I bought a tract of land on the main city street.
In 2009, we asked a construction crew to start building on the site. My father acted as the overseer to provide quality control.
When three stories had been completed, and we were ready to move on to the fourth floor, my 76-year-old father suddenly decided to go home. I thought it was because the responsibility of being the supervisor was getting to be too much for him.
So my brother-in-law and I took over the supervision of the construction work. Because we both held hospital jobs, we had to rotate our schedules to accomodate our work shifts and availability.
One day, it was my turn to be at the construction site. During the lunch break, I stayed on site, ate two cold buns, and spent the rest of the time studying the Falun Dafa teachings.
One of the female migrant workers came over and asked, "Lady Boss, I know you're a physician. I have a pain in my back that keeps me from sleeping at night. What do you recommend I should take?"
I answered, "You should first go to the hospital for a CT scan to see if you have a herniated disc, and then I can talk to you about what else you can do."
"Going to the hospital is out of my league," she sighed. "I have to work every day. And even if I could find out what my problem was, I still wouldn’t be able to stay home to recuperate, so I’d just be wasting money on a CT scan."
I thought of Dafa and said to her, "I’ll tell you a great way that will cost you nothing in time or money."
That piqued her interest and she asked, "What is that?"
So I taught her to say, "Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good."
I advised her to recite the nine precious words as frequently and as sincerely as she could.
She burst out laughing. "You’re kidding me!" she said incredulously.
I replied calmly, unperturbed, "It’s true. I'm not kidding you. You have heard of Falun Gong, right?"
"Yes, of course, on television… Hey, Lady Boss, aren’t you a doctor… are you one of those people?"
"What you hear on television are all trumped up lies to deceive the average person who doesn’t know the truth about Falun Gong.
"Just because I’m a doctor does not guarantee that I don’t get sick. The only thing is, when I do get sick, I know how to deal with it.
"I have practiced Falun Gong for 10 years. I used to have all kinds of health problems. After practicing Falun Gong for three months, I became healthy and haven’t gotten sick since.
"I'm 46 years old. You all see how I stand around all day under the hot sun at the construction site and only sit down for a short time during the lunch break at noon.
"Now that we're working on the seventh floor, and I have to be up there to make sure every job is done right. It’s an arduous job when the sun is beating down from above and the concrete is steaming up from below.
"Sometimes I’ll climb down seven flights of stairs to go get everybody a popsicle and climb up again, but I never feel tired.
"My sister-in-law was here last time. She has a business to manage so she basically contributes money to this project and hardly has time to show up. That time, she happened to be home for her father’s funeral so she dropped by.
"She was here for a little more than two hours before she complained she couldn’t take it anymore.
"She is 10 years younger than I and used to be in much better health. Now she realizes I have way surpassed her in physical prowess because I practice Falun Gong.
"My brother-in-law also told me that he was willing to pay for somebody to oversee the project, because it’s hard work and it's so hot.
"So, you see, Falun Gong is wonderful and beneficial. Why don’t you go home and give it a try. Even cancer patients have been cured by saying those phrases.”
She stood up and went to get pen and paper, saying, "You write down the words for me. I’ll go home and learn them and say them frequently.”
As we were talking, many workers had been gathering around and quietly listening.
I told them all, "I don’t need to write the words down for you. I’ll give each one of you a Dafa amulet. The two phrases are on it."
Everybody was happy to get one.
The next morning, as soon as I arrived, the migrant worker came over to me and said, "Lady Boss, what you told me yesterday really works!
"When I finished all my chores last night, I started learning and reciting the phrases, and, sure enough, I had no pain the whole night through!
"It’s never happened to me before! I have pain every night. I really didn’t expect such an amazingly wonderful thing to come my way. I finally had a good night’s sleep!
"If I hadn’t experienced this personally, even if I were threatened with death, I wouldn’t have believed it."
Those who happened to be nearby and heard what she said were curious to find out about this amazingly wonderful thing.
So we retold the whole story. They were surprised and asked if I could give them amulets, too. So I handed out another dozen.
That afternoon, another female laborer ran into me. She said, "Lady Boss, I heard from others that you have some amazing amulets that work miracles. I wonder if I could have one?”
"Of course.” I told her. “I'm sorry, I almost forgot about you. I’ll give you one now."
I took out an amulet and handed it to her.
Five days later, it was again my turn to be on duty. When I arrived at the site, the same woman came up and said to me with happiness written all over her face, "Lady Boss, your amulet is really a marvelous thing, let me tell you.
"Three days ago, about 4:30 in the afternoon, I suddenly felt very uneasy. I was puzzled. I kept wondering what was the matter with me. Then I thought perhaps it was because I went home for lunch and left my hard hat.
"Still, it was not the first time I'd forgotten my hard hat, and it was almost time to close down, so I didn’t think there'd be a problem.
"But my heart was still in a panic. I just couldn’t calm down. I kept feeling as if something was about to happen. So I took the matter up with my co-worker who works night shifts and lives at the site.
"He didn’t have a hard hat on either, but he lives at the site so his hard hat is always within reach.
"He thought what I was feeling might indeed be an omen, so he suggested I go get his hard hat and wear it for the rest of the day.
"About 20 minutes later, I was transferring a cartload of bricks onto the hoist, when I heard a loud boom that shook my head up a bit.
"Almost at once, everybody rushed over to see how I was. My head hurt, so I took off my borrowed hard hat. Others noticed a lump as big as an egg over my right ear, but there was no broken skin.
"Then they looked at the hard hat. There was a deep, cracked dent in the shape of a cross on it. Apparantly, a brick had fallen from the seventh floor above.
"What a narrow escape! If the brick had hit my head, even if it didn't kill me, I would have ended up a vegetable.
"Everybody was amazed at how lucky I was.
"I told them right away that it was the amulet you gave me that saved my life. It somehow alerted me about my absolute need to wear my hard hat.
"I didn't seem to have a problem, so I even refused a CT scan. I just spent 70 yuan on some anti-inflammatory ointment and reported to work two days later.
"Lady Boss, I’m lucky, you’re lucky, and the contractor is also lucky. If anything bad had happened, we would all be the worse for it. At another construction site, something fell from the second floor and hit a migrant worker on the head. It cost the bosses 10,000 yuan to settle!
"I might have been destined to run into this life-threatening incident, and I’m extremely grateful that Falun Dafa’s Master Li saved me.
"I didn’t ask for any compensation, but could you give me several more amulets so I can pass them out to my relatives so they too will have Master’s protection?"
We topped our building at ten stories. When the entire project was done, I was finally able to pay a visit to my parental home.
My mother said to me, "My dear daughter, you’re absolutely blessed. I am so happy and relieved that the building is completed and there were no major disasters. All this time, I have been so worried about you and your safety."
She went on to confess something she had kept from me all these long months, "I’ve never mentioned this to you before, but your father left the construction site not because of poor health but because he found out that one of our hens had laid an egg with only a yolk and no egg white. When that happens, it always means some sort of calamity will befall the household.”
So it was fear that had kept my father from the construction site!
All of a sudden, I also realized that Master had saved me from possible disaster. I’m extremely grateful for Master’s compassion and protection.