(Minghui.org) I started to practice Falun Dafa in 1997. Despite the persecution launched by the Chinese Communist Party in July 1999, my family has always been supportive.
Kind Husband
My husband is a taxi driver and is kind and honest. Although he doesn’t practice Falun Dafa, he has been very supportive, and often offers practitioners rides or helps them.
In October 1999, three months after the persecution of Falun Dafa started, I was detained. When the local police officer saw me in the detention center, he said, “Do you know that your husband has been detained?” “Why?” I was shocked to hear this. He responded, “Because of you!”
I later learned why my husband had been detained. In August 1999 a female practitioner visited me and we discussed going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa. After dinner, my husband drove her home. The practitioner was later arrested and told the police about my husband and I. The police came to my home, beat him and detained him. Two days later my husband was released because the police verified that he did not practice Falun Dafa.
Because my husband is kind and supportive, sometimes when other practitioners need help, they ask my husband without consulting me. He helped practitioners install satellite dishes to receive NTDTV (a New York-based TV station with uncensored news about China) and some other things. He usually doesn’t tell me about it, I only find out later from other practitioners.
When I was detained at a forced labor camp, my husband brought our daughter and son to see me. A guard told me in front of them, “If you promise that you will never go to Beijing to appeal, you can go home.” I refused. My husband did not say anything or pressure me, and left with our children.
A practitioner that my husband knew was tortured to the point of disability in a forced labor camp. After he was released, my husband took our children and went to see him. The practitioner was deeply touched, because at that time, people avoided him in order to not be implicated.
A practitioner was arrested because she distributed information about Falun Dafa. She escaped from custody but was forced to live away from home to hide from the police. She stayed in our home for more than 20 days. Most people would be afraid of being implicated and refuse to help her, but my husband was not.
My husband’s righteousness and kindness was rewarded. He used to have severe back pain and sometimes could not drive (due to the pain). He went to see traditional Chinese medicine doctors and took a lot of herbal medicines, but nothing helped. As a taxi driver, he had to sit for long hours. Gradually one of his buttock muscles atrophied. The affected muscles that had atrophied were healed after I began to practice Falun Dafa. His back pain was gone too. For more than 20 years, he has not been sick and is now very healthy.
My Son’s Crooked Pelvis Is Fine
My son is six feet tall. No one believes that he was born with a crooked pelvis. We didn’t treat it in time, resulting in one of his legs becoming longer than the other. When he was five, we took him to a doctor for an evaluation. The doctor said there was no cure and that as a result the child would be quite short when he grew up. Other doctors we consulted said the same thing.
My sister-in-law tried to stretch my son’s leg by force. When my son screamed in pain, I said, “How about you listen to Falun Dafa lectures? Master Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Dafa can help you.”
So we started listening to recordings of Master’s Fa lectures. The next morning, my son said, “I feel fine. Master helped me eliminate my karma.” I was surprised at his words because we didn’t know if he understood what karma meant. I checked his legs and both were the same length! Now he is a 6-foot tall handsome young man.
My Family Defends Falun Dafa
When I was detained in a forced labor camp, the guards tried to collect some slander or gossip about me. They knew that many practitioners’ families blame the practitioners instead of the persecution. When they come to my home my father-in-law told them, “What is wrong with Falun Dafa? Which law has my daughter-in-law broken? Falun Dafa is good and I will practice it too!”
I met a truck driver before the persecution of Falun Dafa began. His wife practiced for a short time and I also introduced Falun Dafa to him. After the persecution started, he came to my home and said,, “Give me your Falun Dafa books, I’ll keep them for you so that they will not be confiscated.” The persecution was so intense at that time that even my relatives were afraid to have these books in their homes.
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