{"id":3505,"date":"2016-09-02T11:32:09","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T19:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/?p=3505"},"modified":"2016-09-02T15:58:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T23:58:24","slug":"hymns-and-the-two-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/p\/3505","title":{"rendered":"HYMNS AND THE TWO OF US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/thGOWJ0Z5E.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3507\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/thGOWJ0Z5E.jpg\" alt=\"thGOWJ0Z5E\" width=\"204\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/478878945_293.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2939\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/478878945_293-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"478878945_293\" width=\"230\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/478878945_293-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/478878945_293.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/>HYMNS AND THE TWO OF US<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By: Paul Lai<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Trainlated by John<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yvonne lived in a small town about an hour\u2019s drive from Paris while she was a student.\u00a0 Being the only Chinese person, she would feel lonely at times.\u00a0 She would then speak Chinese in front of a mirror.\u00a0 She loved to sing and sang gospel hymns every day.\u00a0 Soon she could memorize the music and the words of a lot of hymns.\u00a0 One day an elderly lady in her neighborhood heard her singing and came to see her.\u00a0 She was one of the very few Christians in town and she loved the Lord.\u00a0 From that moment on, the two of them became great friends.\u00a0 She would invite Yvonne every Thursday afternoon to have high tea with her and her husband. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Praise the Lord!\u00a0 The Word of God and the hymns became our support, particularly through the trials of sickness and pain.\u00a0 The hymns became our comfort.\u00a0 At times I would play the piano and Yvonne would sing.\u00a0 Other times we would sing together.\u00a0 We expressed our love to God through hymns.\u00a0 We sang loudly; we sang softly.\u00a0 We listened to hymns on tapes.\u00a0 These hymns drove away our loneliness, our despair and our worries.\u00a0 When we felt that our lives seemed to be totally burned out, the melodies and words of the hymns restored the spark and vitality back into our lives.\u00a0 The object of our praise was the only God, the Almighty, Holy, King and loving God.\u00a0 The Holy Spirit helped us, through these hymns, to get close to God, to be joyful and to grow spiritually.\u00a0 All worldly things, including the pain and tears, will disappear in eternity.\u00a0 Only the love of God and our love and praises to Him will never end! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong><strong>The Lord is my Song\u201d is a beautiful testimony of the poets.\u00a0 Let us proclaim: God is His songs; He is the source of inspiration; we get strength through hymns; and only God is our never ending and beautiful song of life!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYMNS AND THE TWO OF US By: Paul Lai Trainlated by John Yvonne lived in a small town about an hour\u2019s drive from Paris while she was a student.\u00a0 Being the only Chinese person, she would feel lonely at times.\u00a0 She would then speak Chinese in front of a mirror.\u00a0 She loved to sing and [&hellip;]<\/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\/3505"}],"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=3505"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3514,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505\/revisions\/3514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}