Heartfelt Stories From My Extended Family

(Minghui.org) I began practicing Falun Dafa in 1995, and am now 79 years old. My husband and I have a combined family. My husband’s son had a bad marriage, and divorced. At that time, our grandson, who was in his teens, was mandated to live with my daughter-in-law, and our son paid child support. But our son was unemployed, so he had no ability to make the payments.

So after the divorce, they often had conflicts over this issue. In order to alleviate the pressure, my husband and I helped our son with a portion of the child support every month. Our grandson was later admitted to high school, then college. During his years in college, we gave him 1,000 yuan a month for living expenses, and some pocket money during school breaks.

Before my son divorced, their family lived in the same building, and my grandson often came to my place to play. I showed him Hong Yin and told him what Master Li Hongzhi said about the principle of being a good person:

“...don’t even hit back when you’re attacked, or talk back when people insult you.” (Lecture Nine, Zhuan Falun)

After graduating from college, he worked in another city and earned over tens of thousands of yuan a month. He now has his own company.

Our grandson believes in Falun Dafa and has quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Youth League. Every time he came to visit, he would tell me about the hardship of starting one’s own business. I used the principles of Dafa to guide him, telling him how to be a good person, that everyone’s life is arranged by Gods, that the ups and downs in life are caused by one’s own karma, and that one should always think about others.

I told him that he should work hard, but let things take their own course. He was happy to accept what I told him and said he felt comfortable listening to me. He wanted to have more contact with me and hoped that I would have the opportunity to tell his fiancée about Dafa.

My former daughter-in-law also witnessed the changes in my body and mind from practicing Dafa, as well as the good deeds I’ve done for her and her son. She worked in another city, bought new apartments for her son and herself, and found a good husband.

My son remarried a few years later, and my new daughter-in-law started an herbal medicine business in Tibet. So my son followed her there. They wanted to buy a car and borrowed money from us. My husband and I supported them, and we didn’t ask them to pay the money back. We also gave them part of the money for decorating their house, totaling more than 70,000 yuan.

At first, I was not very calm about giving the money away, but through studying the Fa, I have improved my understanding, and realize that everything has a predestined relationship. Maybe I owed them in a past life, and Master arranged for me to repay the debt in this way.

We are quite satisfied with our current daughter-in-law. She is hardworking, loyal to her parents, and has a good relationship with my son. She has a daughter who is studying at a technical secondary school in my city, and she hoped we could take good care of her daughter. I told them both the truth about Dafa.

After understanding the truth, her daughter quit the CCP and the Youth League. My daughter-in-law has never been to school. I told her to sincerely recite the two auspicious phrases, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good!” She believes in the goodness of Dafa, and has also helped me to clarify the truth to the workers who helped renovate her house, and persuaded them to quit the CCP.

In the past few years, my son and daughter-in-law have continued doing business in Tibet. They come home to visit only during two months in the winter. My daughter-in-law took the initiative to provide her house for us to study the Fa together. The police once asked her, “Is anyone in your family practicing Falun Dafa?” She denied it and told us to be careful when studying the Fa.

My daughter-in-law suffered a stroke in June 2023, and was hospitalized because half of her body was paralyzed. I knew the pressure she had been under because of all of her difficulties. Her mother had just passed away, her father fell ill because of grief, her younger brother had depression, and her younger sister had breast cancer. They all lived in her house and needed her care. She also has a granddaughter who was attending school and needed to be picked up and dropped off.

The doctors had no confidence in her recovery, and she was discharged from the hospital a few days later. But when our son saw that she was seriously ill, he not only ignored her, but also wanted a divorce. My daughter-in-law didn’t know what to do. She said that she could only feel at ease when she recited the two auspicious phrases every day. I tried visiting my daughter-in-law one day and brought her Master’s two new articles, “How Humankind Came To Be” and “Why the Creator Seeks to Save All Life,” as well as the Minghui booklet “Survival in Despair,” but she was not at home. She was at the hospital for physical therapy and would come home in the afternoon. I told my daughter-in-law’s daughter to pass along some money and the articles, as well as an MP3 player with truth clarification content to her mother.

At that moment, my son came back, and I said to him, “I heard that you want to divorce?” He didn’t say a word. I continued, “Whether to divorce or not is your own business, I won’t interfere. Can you wait until she recovers and is able to take care of herself before talking about this? She’s in trouble and needs someone to take care of her. Isn’t it a bit immoral and unkind for you to leave her at this moment?” He agreed. My daughter-in-law’s daughter was also happy to hear this.

Before the last Chinese New Year holiday, my daughter-in-law came to pass along New Year’s greetings. She was walking normally without any side effects. She said her sister had returned to her own home, her brother was in the hospital, and only her father is at her home. Her daughter is back at work, and she is responsible for picking up her granddaughter, buying groceries, and cooking. My son is now driving for a living and has a decent income.

My daughter-in-law said that she recites “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good” every day. She also burns incense to Master and thanks him every time she comes to visit me. She said that Master saved her life and her family. The doctor told her, “You are so lucky! For a disease like yours, it is a miracle that only one out of ten thousand people survive.” They don’t know that this miracle was created by Falun Dafa. I hope every Chinese person can understand the truth and be protected by Dafa!

Thank you, Master, for the compassionate salvation!