In a distant village surrounded by rolling hills and large fields, there lived a young boy named Lei. At the age of 15, Lei stood out with excellent study performance. His journey to this point, however, was full of challenges and struggles.
Lei was born in a happy family. His parents, hardworking farmers, grew crops from the land to support their family’s life. Lei grew up, surrounded by the love and care of his family, with his days filled with laughter and the simple joys of childhood. However, his life took a sudden turn when his parents decided to move to the city in search of greater opportunities to support their family. Therefore, Lei had to be left behind and taken care of by his grandparents. Although Lei was taken good care of, he felt lonely and sad without his parents around. The house was once filled with his parents’ voices, but now only he and his grandparents were at home. He missed his parents and the happy time he spent with them.
This emotional struggle began to affect Lei’s schoolwork. Once as a curious and eager student, Lei found himself losing interest in his studies. He even didn’t want to go to school from time to time and his grades began to fall greatly. Realizing the seriousness of the situation, his parents made a difficult decision to send Lei to a boarding (寄宿制) school, hoping it would provide him with a fresh start.
However, adjusting to the boarding school life was not easy for Lei. His shy nature made it difficult for him to connect with his classmates and he often felt like an outsider. The pressure and loneliness increased until one day Lei told his teacher about his feeling and thoughts. Concerned about Lei’s health, the teacher immediately reached out to his parents, expecting them to have a heart-to-heart conversation with their son. Taking the teacher’s advice to heart, Lei’s parents took on a long journey, traveling by train and bus for almost a day to reach him.
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Then Lei’s parents had a heart-to-heart conversation with Lei.
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“Rick, I’m sorry to say that your mom’s health is failing,” Doctor Carter said over the phone.
“What?” Rick panicked. “But my mom was okay until last week. How could it happen?”
“We had also thought she was improving, but her body is no longer responding to the treatment. In fact, I don’t think she has much time, so I have to inform you,” Mr. Carter said before hanging up.
Rick’s heart dropped to the ground. His mom was dying, and he had to get to her. Rick dropped everything and got into his car immediately.
To see his mom as soon as possible, Rick chose a shorter path through the freeway that would help him get there faster. Unfortunately, he completely ignored the fuel indicator—which implied that his car was about to run out of gas-until he was already on the highway with no one in sight. He managed to park the car by the side of the road.
Rick checked his phone for the nearest fuel station, and it was miles away. However, he noticed a convenience store nearby. It wasn’t a long walk, so he decided to ask for help there.
When he arrived there 15 minutes later, he saw two men exiting the store. He quickly went up to them. “Hey, man,” he said. “Could you spare me some of your gas? I’m on my way to see my mother. She’s sick, but my car ran out of gas.”
The two men exchanged a quick glance and said, “Sorry. We’re in a hurry and we can’t help your mom.”
Rick was at a loss. He entered the convenience store and asked several people for help, but it didn’t take them long to turn him down. He was anxious at this point, terrified that he would never see his mom again. He walked out of the store, feeling helpless.
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Suddenly, he noticed an elderly woman who dropped her purse on the ground when getting off her car.
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The elderly said hesitantly that she wanted to help but she had to see her doctor.
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A Son’s Love
Our church congregation in Toronto has a way of assisting those who have financial difficulties without making the recipient feel shame or guilt. Money is dropped into an offering box with only the name of the recipient on the envelope. The envelopes are then distributed to those members without them knowing the name of the giver.
There came a time when my husband and I were among those in need. We did not talk about our financial difficulty with anyone. The only reason our children knew was because we had to cut back on many things. Still, we hoped they were not aware of the extent of our need, nor of how much their father and I were suffering because of it. We did not want to burden them with a problem they could do nothing to solve.
Our situation wasn’t improving, and my husband and I knew that we would have to look for outside help. Just as we reached the point of despair, our church gave us a gift envelope that had been left in the offering box. We were overjoyed to receive a very substantial amount of money, enough to bring us through that desperate time. We couldn’t help but wonder who had given such a generous gift. We were extremely relieved and enormously grateful.
A year later, our seventeen-year-old son was applying for a student loan so he could attend university. It was then we discovered that his savings account was almost empty. His father and I were very disturbed by this. We had trusted him to put part of his wages from his part-time job into the bank towards his education. From the time he was nine years old he had been a paper carrier for The Toronto Star, and he had worked very hard for his small earnings.
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Anxious, I asked him repeatedly to tell me where the money had gone.
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Finally, in tears, and with great reluctance, my son told us the truth.
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We took in two dogs deserted in the country. We live at the intersection (相交) of country and city. Thousands of acres of woods and farmland are within walking distance, filled with ponds and streams. This area is rich with deer, wild turkey and many other creatures. It would be a doggy heaven.
Both of our dogs constantly long to run and will do so at any given opportunity. I have to keep them chained, even though my yard is fenced, so that I do not have to pay any fines for recovering them from the city pound (收容所). Overcoming the minor obstacle (障碍) of the fence has never been a real challenge for either of our dogs.
This morning I made the silly mistake of waiting until the last possible minute to put the dogs out. As I was walking the first one out, the second ran past me in a surprisingly skilful move and she was gone. I called for her to return, but she had travelling on her mind and although she stopped briefly to acknowledge hearing me, she chose to ignore my order and headed off for a day of play.
I went about my business but I said goodbye to the dog, telling it through mental telepathy (感应) that I would not save her out if the police put her away.
Anyway, when I picked my daughter up from school I just happened to mention that Cady might be missing once we got home. Now a sensible man would have stopped there, but it was my day to open my imagination so I added this stupid statement. If she has been taken in by the policemen, I will not be paying her fines this time. And because I am angry with her, I will not keep a disobedient (不听话) dog!
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Well I noticed that my caring daughter had her head turned away from me.
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My daughter claimed that I just didn’t understand her.
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There was an old, wise man who grew sicker by the day. However, his son was still young and had yet to reach his full potential. So the man decided to teach his son the ways of the world before death comes knocking.
One morning, the man handed his son a watch passed down for generations. The boy had never seen it before so he didn’t quite know what to make of it. “What am I supposed to do with this watch, father?” “I want you to take the watch to the jeweler (珠宝商). Show him the watch and ask him how much it’s worth. But don’t accept any offer. Instead, come back home with the watch.”
The boy did as his father had instructed, but only to be told it was only worth $100. He complained, “The jeweler said he was taking a gamble (赌注)on buying the watch and that he’d have a hard time finding a buyer. And if I’m being honest, I kind of agree with him. I don’t think this watch is anything special.” The father was nodding, seemingly in agreement with the jeweler’s assessment. “Okay,” the father said. “Now take the watch to the pawnshop (当铺). See how much you can get for the watch.”
In his mind, the boy disagreed. But he didn’t want to argue with his father so he did the job anyway. However, he still went home looking defeated. “Father, the best I got was $20. They told me that the watch had problems. There were scratches (刮痕) that even I didn’t notice after carrying it with me all day.” The father, yet again, nodded in agreement.
“So what do you want me to do? Should I go back to the jeweler? After all, he is willing to pay more money.” “No,” said the father. “I want you to go to the museum to talk to my friend. The lady will have a better idea of what this watch is really worth.”
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The son, getting annoyed by going once again, unwillingly agreed.
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Confused, “What do you mean by saying value and self-worth?” the son asked his father.
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Christmas was hanging around. Six-year-old David was thinking what presents he could get from Santa. He wanted slippers; he wanted a silk tie; he wanted some toys. And school starting soon, he also hoped to get something about schooling. In order to get Santa to know what he needed, he thought he would write a letter to Santa, which he believed would bring him those presents. He found a sheet and made a list of the items on it, and then bent down to post the letter up the chimney, waiting for the draught to take it up.
David got up very early on the Christmas morning. He searched his room carefully, but to his disappointment, he didn’t find the presents he hoped for. Hadn’t Santa received the letter? Was he too busy to send him the gifts? Although feeling a little upset, David was convinced that Santa would not forget him and he was bound to receive the items.
Many years had passed and 2015 came. In an old house of the Reading Town, a young builder, Lewis Shaw was removing the fireplace with his colleagues when he suddenly uncovered a small piece of paper, which was still in perfect condition even if it had turned yellow. He picked it up and unfolded it. It was a letter written to Santa. The touching hand-written note read: Dear Father Christmas, Please can you send me a drum, box of chalks, slippers, silk tie, pencil box, any little toys you have to spare.
Love,
David
It was then signed off with lots of kisses.
This was the very letter written by David and the house was where he had lived during his childhood!
The note struck a chord with Shaw—it told us how simple Christmas once was—and still should be. David didn’t ask for much, just the things he needed modestly. But children today, like his own son and daughter, were ungrateful and would email Santa, asking for expensive things and taking it for granted.
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Shaw decided to find out the author of the letter,
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A greater surprise was waiting for David.
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Our neighbor, Mrs. Moore is an old artist, who lives alone with her cat Taffy. Her husband passed away years ago and her children work in other cities. Mrs. Moore always wears a serious look but in fact she is a very nice neighbor. She does three things every day-petting Taffy, painting and baking, among which baking is the part I like. Whenever the mouth-watering smell gets over the fence, I could expect a paper bag containing delicious cookies to be passed over the fence and shared by my sister Jennifer and me. To return this favor, my dad would mow the lawn (修剪草坪) for Mrs. Moore and help repair the water pipes.
Last year, Dad put his idea of building a tree house for us in our back yard into action. Dad shot from the hip (干事利落) and got everything in place within two weeks. It was a yellow tree house with red roof, which made a great place. for Jennifer and me to get out of the sight of Mom and Dad to have fun and talk about our girlish matters. We couldn’t wait to get in only to find Taffy had taken occupation of it and messed up the inside. We ourselves were unwilling to talk about such a problem to our nice neighbor, but we had no other choice. Dad was the one we sent to Mrs. Moore’s house for a friendly talk about the issue.
After the talk, Dad took Mrs. Moore on an inspection of the tree house, at which she was extremely astonished, saying she had never expected Taffy could be so fascinated with it. She promised to take care of the problem but to our disappointment, the cat could still find ways to climb over the fence and get into the tree house. After a thousand apologies to us, Mrs. Moore gave the problem a careful consideration and came up to a big decision: In view of Taffy’s obsession (痴迷) with a tree house, why not build one specially for him?
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Mrs. Moore bought a ready-made one from an Internet store and had some workers fixed it up in her garden.
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Mrs. Moore racked her brains (绞尽脑汁) and worked out a plan to exchange our tree houses.
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