Our Wedding Celebration

We were married on December 23, 2001. Later that evening we held a real celebration. A friend of my mother-in-law let us have her brand-new house for the festivities. Many guests came; half of them were relatives and the rest of them were fellow Falun Gong practitioners.

Everyone did their best to make this wedding a special occasion. Looking back, I was surprised how it all came together. Fellow practitioners had studied and practiced all the new music and songs that are currently appearing on Minghui.net [Chinese Falun Gong website] and sang to everybody. Following that, these practitioners demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises. That seemed to be the primary topic during our wedding celebration, but not because we chose to do it that way; rather because our guests were genuinely interested and asked many questions. Some even took a copy of the book along with them to read later.

Among them was a woman, another friend of my mother-in-law who at first did not want to attend, because, as she told us later, she suffered from internal bleeding. She had endured a chronic illness for a long time and has restrictions in her food intake; she cannot eat just anything. But she threw caution to the wind and attended anyway. After the wedding, she visited us at home and told us that she had been pain-free during the wedding celebration and had no trouble eating the rich pastry tortes. Then she unexpectedly blurted out that she would like to have a copy of “the book” in Farsi (an Iranian language). While my husband went downstairs to fetch the book, she told me, "I would really be pretty stupid not to believe what it says in the Falun Gong book.” With joy she took the book home.

We were happy for her, but I must admit that I was somewhat surprised. And yet, such is the power of Falun Dafa, which has the foundation of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance. These three words are not simply anything one casually speaks out – they are the characteristics of the universe and represent every creation in this wonderful cosmos. They apply not only to us living earth creatures but are equally fitting to and for those whom we cannot yet behold but who nevertheless exist. Is it a wonder, then, that these characteristics can heal a person, making it appear as a small miracle? I think these characteristics of the universe are not perplexing, because if they can heal a person’s illnesses, a small miracle, they are capable of accomplishing much greater things.

German practitioners in the United States

January 14, 2002