{"id":3369,"date":"2016-08-21T18:10:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T02:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/?p=3369"},"modified":"2016-08-23T22:07:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T06:07:32","slug":"yvonne-my-one-and-only-beloved-translation-afterthought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/p\/3369","title":{"rendered":"Yvonne\u2014My One and Only Beloved (Translation afterthought)"},"content":{"rendered":"

TRANSLATION AFTERTHOUGHT<\/p>\n

\"Agnes\"
\n<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

By: Agnes K Y Tai\"2007-12-30<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Rev Paul Lai and I have never met, yet the Lord gave me an invaluable opportunity to serve Him by helping in the translation of Chinese-English essays written about his late wife Mrs. Yvonne Lai.\u00a0 Rev Lai read my first piece of translation done for brother Larry Leung and asked if I could do two more, and it turned out to be quite a few over the past 6 months, for which I am grateful.<\/span><\/p>\n

Writers of all the essays praised Mrs.\u00a0 Lai for her sweet smile, gentleness, amicable demeanor, unwavering faith, generosity, great deeds (not to mention her wonderful French cooking) and especially in encouraging believers and supporting Rev Lai in his ministry, despite the hardships she suffered tremendously due to deteriorating health and a difficult family situation over the span of nearly four decades.\u00a0 A great number of lives were dramatically changed by her living testimony.\u00a0 It is amazing how she submitted to the Lord and was so blessed by being His marvelous vessel in gathering His beloved children in Canada and beyond.\u00a0 Romans 8:28, which Mrs.\u00a0 Lai kept on her lips is a scripture close to my heart as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

My work in investment and risk management often leads me to ask questions that others aren\u2019t bold enough to raise.\u00a0 The essays sound too perfect.\u00a0 Some questions that surfaced are :<\/span><\/p>\n

1. There had to be times when Mrs. Lai found it too much to bear; did she cry a lot?\u00a0 Were there weak moments?\u00a0 Were there moments she lost faith?\u00a0 Did she ask the Lord to forgive her for the temporary loss of faith or submissiveness?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

2. How did the Holy Spirit comfort and strengthen her day in and day out?\u00a0 How did she hear the Lord each day?\u00a0 What assured her of His presence through all the suffering?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Did Rev Lai and Mrs. Lai quarrel because they got frustrated about the trials and tribulations?\u00a0 How did they forgive each other and ask the Lord for forgiveness? How often?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I may never know the answers.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Indeed, there is no need to.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>The reality is that many came to Christ, many people are helped, many are empowered and many have their spirituality strengthened because Mrs. Lai was an angel on earth to them.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>She was a faithful and victorious servant of the Lord, all the while wearing the most beautiful attire \u2013– her tender sweet smile.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TRANSLATION AFTERTHOUGHT By: Agnes K Y Tai Rev Paul Lai and I have never met, yet the Lord gave me an invaluable opportunity to serve Him by helping in the translation of Chinese-English essays written about his late wife Mrs. Yvonne Lai.\u00a0 Rev Lai read my first piece of translation done for brother Larry Leung […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3480,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions\/3480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}