(Minghui.org) Editor's note: Over the course of the 15-year persecution of Falun Dafa in China, the Chinese Communist Party has deceived many people with its lies and slander, causing them to have misunderstandings about and turning them against Falun Dafa. In this environment of persecution, it is a major breakthrough for a person in China to understand the true situation and openly declare his or her belief in the goodness of Dafa. Many people have received good returns upon siding with goodness and coming to recognize the evil nature of the communist regime. This is one such story.
I have a friend whose behavior is a bit odd. She usually keeps to herself and doesn't get involved in other peoples' lives or offer to help others. Her husband and child no longer live at home. If she has any kind of issue, she always contacts me.
Bike Accident
One afternoon my friend called me as I was getting ready to take my son to school. She asked me to bring money and meet her at a certain location. She sounded like something was wrong, so I asked her, “What's the matter?” She told me that while she was riding her bike to work, her hat fell in front of her eyes and she couldn't see while riding down a hill. She crashed and hurt her arm in the fall. I immediately left with my son and brought some money with me.
When I arrived, she was holding her injured arm, and her eyes were filled with tears. She was in so much pain that she was trembling. She asked me to take her bike home, and said that she would go to the hospital by herself. I told her that I could take my son to school later, so I could take her to the hospital.
I asked my son to take her bike home, and while I waited for him to return, I asked her to recite, “Falun Gong is good!” I told her that this would help alleviate her pain.
Reciting “Falun Gong is Good!”
My friend laughed at me and said, “That's ridiculous! How could that be of any help?” I said to her in a stern voice, “I asked you to recite, 'Falun Gong is good!' Please do it! Do you think I would deceive you?”
I told her a few stories of miracles that had happened when people recited, “Falun Gong is good!” My friend wasn't against Falun Gong, and knew that Falun Gong practitioners were good people, but her personality caused her to be a bit skeptical. She believed me based on my behavior and actions at the time. She knew that I was serious and said, “O.K. I'll recite it.” She repeatedly recited, “Falun Gong is good!”
Pain Disappears
After my son returned, we all went to the hospital together. My friend turned into a different person after she got into the car. She was talking and laughing, and it was obvious that she was no longer in pain. She was totally absorbed in our conversation. I certainly wasn't going to remind her of her injury.
The doctor at the hospital raised her arm and asked if it hurt. She said it did not. Then he stretched her arm behind her back and asked if that hurt. She said it didn't. No matter which way he stretched her arm, it didn't hurt.
At this point the look on her face indicated that she had just remembered something. She looked at me in astonishment and said in a loud voice, “That's right! I really don't have any pain. I really don't have any pain. It really works to recite, 'Falun Gong is good!'” I said, “Of course it works! I haven't been sick in all of the years that I've practiced Falun Gong. Isn't that so?”
The doctor dressed her wound and didn't charge her very much. She had been worrying about the treatment cost.
My friend was worried about her arm after she returned home, so she went to a different hospital and had an x-ray taken. She discovered that a small shard of bone had broken off. It is usually very painful when even a small piece of bone is injured. She was then even more convinced that reciting “Falun Dafa is good” was the reason that her pain disappeared.
Interested in Practicing Falun Gong
My friend became very interested in Falun Gong after her experience, and asked me how to practice. We read poems from Hong Yin III together, and then a section of Zhuan Falun . She also planned to encourage her husband and child to withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations when they returned home. She herself had never joined the CCP.
One day my friend told me that an older woman had offered her a CD of Shen Yun Performing Arts when she was riding her bike, but she refused to take it. Later, she traveled a long distance on her bike back and found the woman. She said to the woman, “I would like a copy.” I said, “Didn't I already give you a copy? Why do you want another one?” She said, “That was different.” I encouraged her because I knew that she had started practicing Falun Gong.
I was very happy for my friend because by believing in Falun Gong she had changed a lot.
