Hi, I am Helen Liu. I am from Taiwan. I became a Christian 20 years ago. Seven years before, I had Leukemia and received Bone Marrow Transplantation. I was cured of the disease, but my life quality has been affected greatly.

During my two-month stay at the hospital, I met a Christian doctor who was particularly kind. One day when I was feeling terrible for my belly pains, he happened to visit the ward. He saw a radio on my sick bed, he comforted me saying, “Don’t put your mind on pains. Listen to songs on your radio!” I felt he was a friend besides being my doctor.

On a sleepless night, I went out of the ward on the 12th floor to a window of the corridor, looking down at a garden below. Suddenly a nurse appeared who said to me, “Can’t sleep?” We had a brief conversation. Before she left, she said she would come back to see me again the next morning when her shift was over. And she did. Later on I found out she was also a Christian. I had not known her, a total stranger. Why were Christians so kind? I wondered.

After I was discharged from the hospital, at a railway station I came across a university friend who moved to the same city. We had not known each other’ s whereabouts after we graduated twenty years before. Being a devoted Christian, she led me to God.

I realized God has a plan for each one of us. His grace is amazing. He raises me up every day when I draw near to Him. Reading the Bible has been a great joy in the past twenty years. And I have experienced the sweetness of praying recently. Praise to the Lord! Thank you. Thank you.

Psalm 73:26
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. NIV

Indeed, my body is declining, yet God is the strength of my heart.