{"id":3572,"date":"2016-09-25T20:30:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T04:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/?p=3572"},"modified":"2016-09-25T20:33:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T04:33:50","slug":"my-love-for-yvonne-was-met-with-strong-opposition-from-her-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/p\/3572","title":{"rendered":"MY LOVE FOR YVONNE WAS MET WITH STRONG OPPOSITION FROM HER FATHER"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By:\u00a0 Rev. Paul Lai <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Translated By: Stephen Li <\/strong><\/p>\n

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I Love Yvonne: <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Yvonne\u2019s father was a church deacon.\u00a0 In the early days when the church was constructing its building, he volunteered as construction supervisor.\u00a0 As a deacon, he very much loved the Lord and loved people, and was an elderly man with spiritual depth.\u00a0 He was honest and frank, having lost his wife in middle age.\u00a0 For the sake of four young daughters, he insisted on not remarrying.\u00a0 I admired him a lot and got along with him very well.\u00a0 We often did visitation together, and I often went to his home and talked and shared about God\u2019s word. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Every time I visited him, I chose the chair facing the front door, so that when Yvonne returned home from school she would immediately see me.\u00a0 Every time she returned home, she always glanced at me with a smile.\u00a0 Her pure and silent smile plucked the strings of my heart.\u00a0 Sometimes I intentionally delayed my departure just to see her smile.\u00a0 The moment when our eyes met, it was so romantic!\u00a0 As time went on our love for one another grew, and the flame of love burned in our hearts.\u00a0 It was a pity that we did not have the opportunity to be together by ourselves.\u00a0 I could only silently love her in my heart, and dared not express it openly.\u00a0 Firstly, her father was strict. Secondly, girls in those days were reserved and conservative, unlike young people today.\u00a0 Lastly, she was still a student, and was also busy serving as a French tutor.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Once I waited until she finished tutoring and accompanied her on her way home.\u00a0 I invited her to dine at a restaurant serving Western food, but she refused, and would only accept a glass of 7-up, pointing out that I just graduated, had not found a job yet, and that I was not rich.\u00a0 We rarely had the opportunity to be together by ourselves, and did not have time to talk deeply.\u00a0 We could only chat a little, as she had to rush home, in order not to be reprimanded by her father for returning home late.\u00a0 I remember one night I waited until Yvonne finished her English night school and accompanied her on her way home.\u00a0 When we were close to her home, Yvonne suddenly realized that it was the time her father walked his beloved dog.\u00a0 We immediately took another route, or else we might be discovered by her father and be scolded.\u00a0 Every time we only had ten to twenty minutes of walking together.\u00a0 Even though it was not under romantic circumstances, we treasured that very much.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Chinese people in Cambodia in the sixties were quite conservative.\u00a0 If a male and female walked together, or if one rode on a bicycle with someone of the opposite gender, people would think they were lovers.\u00a0 People would gossip that they were dating and discussing marriage.\u00a0 Therefore, parents would not casually allow their children to date.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Met with Strong Opposition from Yvonne\u2019s Father: <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Over ten years ago, Yvonne and I went to Paris and visited some brothers and sisters whom we had grown up together with.\u00a0 One of the brothers said to me: \u201cMr. Low (Yvonne\u2019s father) was very strict, so no one dared to pursue his daughter.\u00a0 You had the courage and were not afraid of being scolded by him.\u00a0 Only you had this courage and perseverance, waiting for love to blossom over a long period of time.\u201d\u00a0 I immediately replied with humour:\u00a0 \u201cIf others had the courage to pursue her, then my pursuit might not have succeeded.\u00a0 It was because no one else had the courage to pursue her, while I had, so I was able to get her!\u201d\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

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In fact, her father had scolded me!\u00a0 As a result, I dared not visit her home for a long time.\u00a0 One day her father angrily said to me: \u201cMy daughter is focusing on her studies, and this is not the right time for romance.\u00a0 I have asked Yvonne about you.\u00a0 She said she has no intention of taking you.\u00a0 (This was because at that time Yvonne was very afraid of her father, and did not dare to admit.)\u00a0 Do not continue to\u00a0 unrequited love\u2019 in\u00a0 At that time I felt really bad and could only leave feeling dejected, not daring to step into her home again.\u00a0 This was especially so, because just before this incident of being severely rebuked by her father, two pastors had come from the Philippines to Cambodia on a tour, and I brought them to Yvonne\u2019s home as guests.\u00a0 The two pastors asked me to serve as their tour guide for them to see the palace.\u00a0 When Yvonne\u2019s elder sister heard that, she kept saying she wanted to come along.\u00a0 At that time Yvonne was at school.\u00a0 During the sightseeing tour, the two pastors asked me: \u201cIs she (Yvonne\u2019s sister) your girlfriend?\u201d\u00a0 Immediately I denied it and said: \u201cNo, it\u2019s her younger sister.\u201d\u00a0 Good grief – her sister also heard that and told her father after she returned home.\u00a0 After he learned about that, he was furious!\u00a0 He immediately tried to clarify with Yvonne, and mercilessly rebuked me, <\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 By:\u00a0 Rev. Paul Lai \u00a0 Translated By: Stephen Li \u00a0 I Love Yvonne: \u00a0 Yvonne\u2019s father was a church deacon.\u00a0 In the early days when the church was constructing its building, he volunteered as construction supervisor.\u00a0 As a deacon, he very much loved the Lord and loved people, and was an elderly man with […]<\/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\/3572"}],"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=3572"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3578,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions\/3578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}