{"id":3394,"date":"2016-08-22T18:46:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T02:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/?p=3394"},"modified":"2016-08-22T19:09:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T03:09:13","slug":"3394","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/p\/3394","title":{"rendered":"GIVE THANKS IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES\/IN ALL THINGS GOD WORKS FOR THE GOOD (Yvonne\u2014My One and Only Beloved)"},"content":{"rendered":"

GIVE THANKS IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES\/IN ALL THINGS GOD WORKS FOR THE GOOD<\/strong><\/p>\n

By:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yvonne & Paul Lai\"2008-01-20<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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My youngest son (Peter) is a mentally-impaired child and was unable to speak much even by age 5 or 6.\u00a0 Apart from facing my own ailment, I had to personally teach him as well.\u00a0 I used picture flashcards to teach him word recognition and also taught him some English.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Whenever there was an incident involving my youngest, a verse would always surface in my heart: \u201cIn all things God works for the good of those who love Him.\u201d\u00a0 What we had received would not be counted as good news, yet I knew that God definitely had His pleasant will in it.\u00a0 Thanks to the Lord, He never failed to give me an answer every single time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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When our child was 17, I recall another incident.\u00a0 He really loved listening to Christmas songs and when he brought home from school a cassette that belonged to a classmate, we thought it was an exchange present.\u00a0 A while later the school went so far as to demand our son be removed from the school, and it was then we learned what had really happened.\u00a0 We could only accept the school\u2019s decision at the time.\u00a0 The Education Department however had a good number of meetings with us on this issue and as a result the Education Department made the decision to assign one teacher to accompany him in class and to specifically teach him only.\u00a0 Given that the Government was cutting the budget at all corners, to receive this preferential treatment was indeed a miracle.\u00a0 (Yvonne)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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We are to thank God for good times and bad times, fortune or misfortune, life or death.\u00a0 The Bible tells us to give thanks in all circumstances.\u00a0 Joseph learned this; he should have been disgruntled and complaining about all his mishaps but he did none of that.\u00a0 Conversely, he accepted all calmly and that response was exceptionally valuable.\u00a0 In the end God gave him abundant blessings and through him God bestowed grace upon millions of people as well, myself being one of them.\u00a0 Thanks to the Lord, I\u2019ve got to keep learning.\u00a0 Mrs. Lai was just like Joseph in that each time something horrific happened or when things weren\u2019t going smoothly, especially during Peter\u2019s early years when lots of things happened to him, no matter what had occurred the first line she would utter was:\u00a0 \u201cIn all things God works for the good of those who love Him.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The house we used to live in was not as big as the present one we are in.\u00a0 At the time, for a nice smaller house nearby, we offered over $510,000 but the owner was not willing to sell.\u00a0 As a result, I was a little sad and yet Mrs. Lai said we were to give thanks in all things even though the purchase was not going through, since everything works for the good and therefore God surely had something better prepared for us.\u00a0 Truly, three months later, the value of that old house of ours in Vancouver rose by over $100,000 which was totally unexpected.\u00a0 It turned out to be such a blessing that we did not manage to buy that first house we liked after all, because God wanted to give us something better; something that also originally was completely out of our reach.\u00a0 His blessing was multiplied to us in making a way for the purchase of our current home and for that we continuously proclaim our gratitude to Him.\u00a0 Indeed, I have to learn that kind of pure, simple faith that Mrs. Lai possessed.\u00a0 Romans 8:28: \u201cAnd we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who are the called according to His purpose.\u201d\u00a0 We are to trust and rely on the Lord steadfastly, believe firmly, and giving thanks in all things.\u00a0 (Paul)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GIVE THANKS IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES\/IN ALL THINGS GOD WORKS FOR THE GOOD By:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yvonne & Paul Lai Translator:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Agnes K Y Tai \u00a0 My youngest son (Peter) is a mentally-impaired child and was unable to speak much even by age 5 or 6.\u00a0 Apart from facing my own ailment, I had to personally teach him […]<\/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\/3394"}],"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=3394"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3404,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions\/3404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}