“Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” a single she recorded when she was 13, is making chart history 65 years after its debut.
hours of TV performances
Brenda Lee debuted at the age of 5 and signed with a record label at the age of 12 to record the song “Dynamite” before earning the title of “Little Miss Dynamite” in 1957; It also made her one of the first pop stars to have an international reach. BTS’ 2020 debut English-language single also bears its name. When Brenda Lee was 13 years old, she sang “Rock ‘n’ Roll Christmas Tree”, an enduring Christmas song. Her performances span rock, pop, country, and gospel music. Assist News reports that she didn’t have much success in the United States in the late ’50s and early ’60s, so she moved to England and met the fledgling Beatles. When she toured West Germany, she also invited them to be the opening guests and introduced them to the record label they gave her. Dolly Parton was also promoted to the music industry by her.
The movie “Little Ghost Becomes Home” once again hyped up the famous song of the Red Christmas
The 90s Christmas movie “Home Alone” repeatedly played her famous song in the film, making it popular again at the time, but it wasn’t until Billboard changed the weighting calculation method in 2012 that songs that had already entered the charts in the past could still be counted as long as they were heavily streamed on music streaming platforms, which made Mariah Carey’s Christmas song “You Are My Most Wanted Christmas Present”, and finally rushed to the top of the charts 25 years after its release, and also allowed Grandma Brenda’s competing songs to follow closely.
The single “Rock ‘n’ Roll Christmas Tree” sold only 5,000 copies in its first year.
For the first time this year, Universal Music funded the music video for “Rock ‘n’ Roll Christmas Tree,” using recordings of Brenda when she was 13 years old, to commemorate the song’s 65th anniversary. Even persuaded the grandmother, who retired 23 years ago (2000), to participate in a special music program on the TV station, and the social media platform TikTok also vigorously promoted the song, and sure enough, this publicity worked.
He started singing at the age of 5, started raising a family at the age of 10, and danced with Elvis Presley at the age of 13
Brenda Mae Tarpley, whose real name is Brenda Mae Tarpley, was born on December 11, 1944, in Lithonia, GA. My childhood impression is that my parents have been looking for jobs and sleeping in the same bed with my older brother and sister. Because of her family’s poverty, her mother and sister often took her to a local candy store before she was 3 years old, and put her on the counter so that she could earn candy or coins by singing.
At the age of 5, Brenda Lee won a talent show at school, which led her to sing on local radio and television. Because her family could not afford a record player or radio, only the church allowed her to hear music, and she grew up in a Baptist church and immersed herself in gospel music. Her father died in a construction accident at the age of 8, and she became the breadwinner of the family from the age of 10, and at the age of 13, she met and danced with Elvis Presley at a concert. “At the time, all the churches said Elvis was the devil and burned his records, but I didn’t think so. The two became friends until Elvis died.
At just 145 centimeters tall, Brenda says she has many colleagues who have worked with her since she was 10 years old and later joined the younger ones, all of whom have worked very hard, and that she has a very die-hard fan base that has been with her since she first started singing. Now that “Rock ‘n’ Roll Christmas Tree” has won the award, she is happier for her fans than for herself, “Good songs don’t get out!” she said.
Regarding overcoming the “Mariah Carey barrier” and becoming the new Queen of Christmas, she said that she just wants to be a musician, she wants to have good songs, sing well, and if others take the first place, it is good for her, and she knows how to appreciate others.
“God has been kind to me and has prevented me from going the wrong way”
When asked if she has ever had a hard time as a religious woman in her career, and how she was able to stay in the industry for so long and be clean and self-loving after many of her show business friends died of drug overdoses? I’d be lying if I said I had never been exposed to or ever been tempted. But because God has been kind to me, He has given me enough wisdom to know which roads to take and which not to take, and I have known this for a long time. I was vulnerable in the early years, and I was very well isolated and protected during those years when I could have been in trouble, and I was surrounded by a lot of wonderful people who cared about me. When I’m older, those temptations won’t interest me anymore!”
“I always pray before concerts – I’m lucky to be energetic, fit and love to work,” she added. In fact, what I do on stage doesn’t count as work for me, it’s a blessing for me to be able to sing, and I’m grateful to the fans, they treat me so well. 」
In addition to production, work 11 months per year
From the 50s to the 70s of the 20th century, in addition to production, Brenda spent 11 months a year, either working or on the way to the studio. She was called “legendary” 16 years ago, when she modestly told the American evangelical magazine Christianity Today, “I don’t think it’s possible because I don’t see myself that way! I’m just a woman who is lucky enough to do what I want to do.” Many people shed a lot of tears and put in their life’s work for me to make my dream come true. So, if I’m a legend, then they’re also a legend, and they’re a part of it. 」
Brenda never worried that she would get out of luck. “It’s only natural that the popularity has dropped,” she said. We open the door to music for other singers, and then they become famous, and we grow old. You can’t maintain that scorching reputation forever, and I’ve always been there because of my fans. All I care about is the work on stage, I don’t care about anything else!”
“I retired not because I didn’t like the industry, but because I loved – you know what? I ran well and I won all the awards,” she said. Brenda Lee said that she later learned that there was a personal life outside of showbiz! In the past, she never recognized this properly, so she decided to slow down and have fun with her children and grandchildren. She used to be busy working every weekend, so she slowed down and chose to smell the roses.
Brenda met Ronnie Shacklett at a concert when she was 18 years old, and the two got married less than half a year later, they have two daughters, two granddaughters, and one grandson after 60 years of holding hands. As of 2023, her net worth is estimated to be about $20 million.
布蘭達.李本名是布蘭達.梅.塔普利(Brenda Mae Tarpley),1944年12 月11日出生於喬治亞州利松尼亞(Lithonia, GA)。童年印象就是父母一直在找工作,和哥哥、姊姊都睡同一張床。因為家貧,3歲前母親和姊姊經常帶她去當地的一家糖果店,把她放在櫃台上,讓她可以透過唱歌來賺取糖果或硬幣。
One day two years ago, I felt a bag on my chest while taking a shower, and I couldn’t help but think: Why did I suddenly grow a bag? If I look at the recent weight loss for no reason, will I get any bad disease? But then I thought: What kind of disease will I get at such a young age? Don’t scare me, I should be fine! But after two months, I lost 20 pounds compared to before, sometimes I suddenly stood up with black eyes, and it took a minute or two to see things, when I went out shopping or ran errands, I had to rest for an hour or two to recover my strength, and from time to time I had chest pain and some difficulty breathing, I couldn’t help but wonder: Did I have some disease?
Just in case, I went to the hospital for a check-up, and the doctor said, “The bag in my chest is a tumor, and it is very active, so you have to go to a specialized hospital for excision.” “I came to the cancer hospital again with trepidation. After doing a thorough examination, the doctor told me that I had breast cancer and that I had to be treated as soon as possible, otherwise, my life would be in danger when the cancer spread. He and other oncologists decided on a treatment plan and told me that if I started chemotherapy, my hair would fall out, my eyes would become inflamed, my mouth would have sores, and I would vomit. Listening to what the doctor said, my mind went blank and I couldn’t listen to anything, I sat down in my chair and fell into despair: I was only 24 years old when I got cancer, should I die at such a young age? Several of my husband’s relatives had cancer and died without being cured, and his aunt also died of breast cancer, should I die like this?
In desperation, I walked on the way home, looking at the crowds coming and going, listening to the laughter of adults and children in the park, my mood was full of melancholy, helplessness, and pain welled up in my heart, and tears flowed uncontrollably when I thought that I had cancer. When I got home, I prayed to God, “God, the diagnosis from the hospital seems to be the verdict of my death, and now I am scared and very sad. What should I do? Lead me and help me out of this desperate situation. During the prayer, I remembered God’s Word: “Almighty God is the Almighty Doctor!” To live in sickness is to be sick, to live in spirit is not to be sick, as long as you have a breath, God will not let you die.” “The fate of man is in the hands of God……” God’s words gave me great comfort and confidence, and at the same time moved me, I also understood that God is in charge of the fate of mankind and all things, and my life is in God’s hands, and without God’s permission, even if I have cancer, I will not die. With God as my back, I have nothing to worry about. I should give myself to God, submit to God’s sovereign arrangement, be at God’s mercy, and face cancer bravely. Thinking about this, my emotions gradually stabilized and became less painful.
Next, I prayed and leaned on God and received healing. But after I went home from chemotherapy for the first time, I was dizzy, had tinnitus, vomiting, and didn’t want to eat anything, and I didn’t have any strength. Thinking about the 21 times of chemotherapy, when this pain ended, my tears flowed out uncontrollably, and later, I didn’t eat for 4 days, my body was very uncomfortable, I wanted to give up the treatment in the pain, and I felt that it was better to die than so painful. When my roommate saw that I was uncomfortable, he took care of me, comforted me, and read God’s Word to me. I gained faith by praying to God and relying on God’s Word, and when I had faith in God, I recovered well. During a follow-up check-up in the hospital, I happened to meet a patient who had been undergoing chemotherapy with me, she was skinny, and weak, and talked to me with a cat, and she was constantly panting. I received treatment with her, but now I have gained 10 pounds, my blood value has also recovered, and my physical strength is also very good. At this time, I burst into tears, deeply touched by God’s love.
In March 2017, I browsed a Facebook message on my phone: A breast cancer patient was treated for 3 years, but eventually died due to ineffective treatment. Seeing what happened to her, I thought that I had been treated for months, could I be like her and die?
Not long after, when I went to the hospital for chemotherapy, the doctor said that they had made an appointment with the surgeon and the plastic surgeon to discuss my surgical plan and that I would have to remove all of my breasts so that I was ready for surgery. The doctor’s words made me suffer again: I have been afraid of pain since I was a child, and now I have to have a total resection, and it will hurt after the operation, will I die like the woman on Facebook? If I will die sooner or later, I will not have surgery. The doctor’s words kept echoing in my mind, I was in pain when I returned home, my physical discomfort after chemotherapy, the impact of my emotions, I couldn’t get up in bed for three days, except for eating, I lay in bed. When my husband saw that I was uncomfortable, he read a passage of God’s Word with me: “Some people like to reason and imagine, but where can the maximum scope of man’s imagination go? Can it go beyond this world? Can man’s reasoning and man’s imagination construct the truth and accuracy of God’s authority? Can man’s reasoning and man’s imagination construct the truth and accuracy of God’s authority? Can man’s reasoning and imagination be able to truly comprehend and obey God’s authority? Facts have proved that man’s reasoning and man’s imagination are only the product of man’s mind, and they are not of the slightest help or benefit to man’s understanding of God’s authority. Since we cannot know God’s authority by imagination, what is the only way to achieve true knowledge of God’s authority? Through eating and drinking God’s Word, through fellowship, and through the experience of God’s Word, we can gradually experience and gradually confirm that we can gradually understand, and we can know it step by step, and there is no other way to know God’s authority. Not letting you imagine it doesn’t mean you sitting still, or not letting you do nothing. Don’t use your brain to think and imagine, you don’t need to reason logically, you don’t use knowledge to analyze, you don’t rely on science, but through God’s Word, through the truth, through everything you come into contact with in life, to experience, verify, and confirm that the God you believe in is authoritative, to prove that He is in charge of your destiny, and His ability to confirm that He is the real God Himself, which is a way that everyone must go through to know God. For all that God is and that all that God is is not empty, but actual. ”
“We think and plan to do this because we don’t know the Almighty Lord of God,” said the husband. We are creatures, we are in control of our own destiny, we can’t even predict what will happen in the next second, how can we imagine something more long-lasting? Everyone’s fate and the length of life are God’s final say, and we can’t speculate and judge our future illness and outcome based on other cancer cases and scientific knowledge, because this is not at all consistent with the fact that God is in control. Therefore, we must learn to let go of our imagination, surrender ourselves completely to God, truly rely on God, and experience God’s sovereignty in the future treatment, so that it is in line with the truth and God’s heart!”
After listening to God’s Word and my husband’s fellowship, I realized that since I had cancer, I always reasoned by my imagination that I would die like my husband’s relatives who had cancer and Facebook patients, so I was always in pain and wanted to give up treatment and wait for death. I now understand that speculation and imagination cannot make me aware of the fact that God is sovereign, and cannot make me submit to God’s arrangement, but only keep me away from God and live in pain. What I will suffer today, what will become of my body, what the doctor says, and other people’s experiences are not mine, only God knows what I will face, and only God can control and control everything about me. What I should do is to have true faith in God, rely on God more in the process, and know God according to the facts He has done. I think of the same treatment I received for other cancer patients before, but after each chemotherapy treatment, I had fewer side effects and recovered faster than them, isn’t this all God-preserving? Thank God! Seeing God’s Word, I once again had the confidence to experience it, and I was willing to let go of my imagination and submit to God’s Lord.
After 3 months of chemotherapy, the doctor happily told me that the cancer was too small to be touched by hand, that I had the fastest and best recovery she had ever seen, and that after they discussed it, I would not need to have a total resection, just a small operation in the breast. At this time, I shed tears of emotion, I know that this is God’s love, it is God’s salvation! When I face cancer according to the requirements of mythology, I see God’s work, God has changed everything! Thank God, on the day of the operation, my husband and I prayed to God and relied on God, and the operation went smoothly. When I left the hospital, the doctor said happily, “You are really lucky, you are the person I have seen the fastest and best treatment in the past few years, the cancer has been removed, as long as you come back for regular check-ups in the future!” I happily said to him: “It was my God who saved me.” ”
God’s Word: “No matter what your background may be, no matter what your journey lies ahead, no one can escape the mercy and arrangement of God, and no one can control his destiny, because only that One, the Ruler of all things, can do such a work.” “It’s right that you follow God, God won’t lead you into the ditch, even if he hands you over to Satan, God will be responsible to the end, you have to have this faith, this is the attitude of the creature towards God, ‘God just gave me to Satan as a plaything, he is also God, I can’t change my heart to follow him, I can’t change my faith in him’, that’s right. ”
Yes, only God can control the destiny of man, and when we encounter any danger, only God can be our master, as long as we have true faith in God, we can overcome any difficulties in front of us. Looking back on this cancer experience, God led me step by step and rekindled my faith in fighting cancer: when I lost hope in life and lay in bed and gave up treatment, it was God’s Word that encouraged me and gave me the courage to face treatment, and when I endured the pain of treatment, God’s love sustained me and gave me strength. I was with me through the agony of cancer, and when I lost my way and imagined the outcome of my destiny, God did not give up on me because of my ignorance, but still opened and led me with God’s Word, strengthened my faith, and gave me support. After experiencing cancer, I felt God’s selfless love and favor for me, and I truly experienced that only God is my dependence, and only God can control everything I have. This experience is etched in my heart, and I sincerely give thanks and praise to God!
Now that I have recovered my health and can live a normal life, work normally, and do my part as much as I can in the church, I feel that every day is full and happy! I am glad that I have followed God and thank God for giving me a second life! I have made up my mind that I am willing to hand over my future life to God, submit to God’s arrangement, continue to experience God’s work, and testify to repay God’s love.
I’ve been believing in God for a few years, and I don’t know much about God because I don’t pursue the truth. When things come to them, they can do whatever they want, rarely rely on God, look up to God, have no status of God in their hearts, and even misunderstand and complain about God when they come to some hardships and trials. However, seeing God’s love and salvation for me, truly experiencing the power of God’s Word, and understanding God’s good intentions to save me, I have the confidence to believe in God’s path of truth.
Diagnosed with “menopause”, unacceptable
After giving birth, I didn’t recuperate, I fell into confinement disease, I got severe arthritis, the pain was unbearable, and I couldn’t cure it by seeking medical advice everywhere. One day in June 2012, I heard from a relative that there was an herb that could cure arthritis, so I immediately took that herb, but after 3 months, I didn’t have my period, I went to the hospital for a check-up, and the doctor said that I was not pregnant. I went to the pharmacy and bought menstrual medicine, but it didn’t work for more than a month. Then I went to the Chinese medicine hospital to prescribe Chinese medicine for more than a month, but it still didn’t work. The condition gradually worsened, my memory began to decline, I lost everything I wanted, I felt very swollen all over my body, sometimes my neck was swollen as if it was about to explode, I had no strength at all, I was not comfortable standing or sitting, so I had to sleep in bed and have no appetite for eating. At that time, I was in a bad mood every day, very irritable and depressed, my skin slowly became gray, and my face was wrinkled. Once, my relatives were surprised when they met me: “I haven’t seen you for a few days, why are you so old all of a sudden, and you look like you are forty or fifty years old?”
In the first month of 2013, I went to the Women’s and Children’s Hospital for a check-up, and the doctor diagnosed me with “menopause”. The doctor asked me, “What medicine have you taken?” I told him the truth, and the doctor said, “I have seen more than a dozen patients like you, all of whom have been sick by eating this herb, and some of them are younger than you, but I have prescribed her medicine for 6 months and has not been cured, this disease is not easy to cure!” When I heard the news, I was so frightened that my hands and feet became weak, and I walked in a trance, and I felt like the sky was about to fall, and my mind was blank. I’m only in my 30s, how can I get this disease? Can I be cured?
When I got home, I locked myself in my room, didn’t bother to talk to my family, couldn’t eat, and lay in bed all day with tears on my face, really unwilling to accept this reality. I kept thinking in my heart: Could it be that the equipment in that hospital was broken down and the examination was not accurate? I went to the People’s Hospital again to see a specialist, but the results of the examination were still the same, and I was completely desperate.
Helpless, I found support in God’s Word.
From then on, I lived in agony every day, and I washed my face with tears all day long, thinking: Why am I so unlucky? How could such a thing happen to me? Now that I am getting older than my mother-in-law, how can I go out to meet people in the future? I want to die. Then I suddenly thought of God, yes, why don’t I rely on God? Thinking of this, I felt as if I had grasped a life-saving straw, and I immediately came to God and prayed, “God! I am so miserable, I have only reached menopause in my 30s, how should I face life in the future?” O God, please save me. ”
Then I saw God’s Word: “Almighty God is the Almighty Doctor! To live in sickness is to be sick, to live in spirit is not to be sick, and as long as you have a breath, God will not let you die.” God’s Word is so sweet! Myths are the cure! Humiliate the devil and Satan! Touch the myth to rely on, God’s Word will save the heart quickly! There is no peace in all things. “When a person is sick or not, God’s will is in it, and when a person is sick, he does not understand God’s will, and he does not know how to carry it out, and he thinks that it is caused by his ignorance, but does he not know that God’s goodwill is in it? “God’s Word, with its authoritative power, has given me some faith and a lot of confidence in my heart. Reflecting on my performance during this time, although “menopause” is not a terminal disease, I have been tormented by it to the point that life is worse than death, my heart is negative and hopeless, and I even misunderstand and blame God, thinking that it is bad luck to have this disease. I always think that I got menopause because I took the wrong medicine, and I live in self-blame every day, but I don’t come to God to seek to touch God’s heart, resulting in depression every day, isn’t this foolish?
Then I saw a passage from God’s Words: “The myth of eating and drinking has worked, the spiritual life can be normal, no matter what the trials you encounter, or what circumstances come you, or when you are physically sick, or when your brothers and sisters are alienated from you, or when your family is in trouble, you can eat and drink normally, pray normally, and live the church life normally if you reach this point, it means that you are on the right track.” This passage gave me a way to practice, and I understood that no matter what happens, I should seek to understand God’s mind and maintain a normal relationship with God. Even if you are sick, you should not be subject to it, you should focus on living before God, do your duty, read God’s word when you should read God’s word, pray when you should pray, meet when you should meet, and I have to submit to God’s arrangement.
After understanding God’s heart, I felt strong in my heart, and I began to practice and enter, as long as there is something in the church that I need help to do, I will try to do what I can, and whenever I have time, I will read God’s Word and seek and pray to God for everything. Before I knew it, the feeling of exhaustion eased a lot, and I felt more energetic, and I thought to myself: it seems that my illness has been saved. Therefore, I am more active in doing my part.
God’s Word reveals that I am deeply remorseful in my dealings.
More than 20 days passed, and one day, I suddenly felt soreness and weakness all over my body, I was slumped in bed, and I unconsciously felt a little negative in my heart, thinking: During this time, I have actively my duty, and I have never shirked anything in the church, and I have felt better and better, and there is hope for seeing a better doctor, but why is it not working today? Do I have to find a big hospital to see, if there will always be a place that can cure my disease? But after thinking about it, the expert doctors in both hospitals said that this disease cannot be cured, and I have never heard of a famous doctor who can cure “menopause”. At this time, I completely lost faith in God, living in sickness, and the more I thought about it, the more desperate I became, especially when I looked at the withered grass outside the window that was swaying from side to side by the wind, and then looked at my old face, and suddenly felt so desolate and miserable. Helpless, I knelt on the bed and prayed to God: “God, when will my illness get better, I can’t go out and do my duty, God! ”
After praying, I saw God’s Word: “I have found that no matter what comes to me or what I treat, I always protect my interests, I care about my flesh, I always look for reasons and excuses for myself, and I have no truth at all, but I defend my flesh, plan for my future, ask God for grace, and think of any good.” Why do we demand too much from God? This proves that human nature is greedy, that there is no reason at all in front of God, and that everything man does, whether it is prayer, fellowship, or preaching, in short, what man seeks, what he wants, what he desires, what he desires, what he asks for from God, what he asks for from God, what he hopes to receive from God. If you believe in Him, if you believe in Him, if you believe in Him, then you will not dare to make demands on Him, and you will not be qualified to make demands on Him, whether it is unreasonable or reasonable.
If you have true faith, believing that He is God, you have no choice but to worship, only obedience. “God’s Word was like a sharp sword, which completely exposed the meanness in my heart. Looking back on the past 20 days, I have been actively engaged in church work, and I think I have been faithful and confident in God, and it is all because God can heal my illness as soon as possible and free me from the torment of illness. But when I saw that my illness was not getting better, I became discouraged and despaired, and even complained about misunderstandings and blamed God, and I was tired of doing my duty, because I did my duty to receive grace and be healed by God, and I was not willing to do my duty.
Isn’t my purpose just to make a deal with God? We are all created by God, and a breath of breath is also given by God, so how can I, a corrupt person, be qualified to ask God for terms and demands, isn’t this too irrational? The more I think about it, the more I feel that I believe in God and do not treat God as God, and I have no face to come to God. At this time, I realized that my previous views of believing in God were wrong, so I made up my mind in front of God: I am willing to turn back to God, I don’t want to ask God according to my will, no matter whether my illness will be cured in the end, I am willing to submit to God’s arrangement, and do my part as a creature to repay God’s love!
Submit to God’s mercy and miraculously appear, deeply loved by God.
Thank God for letting me understand God’s heart, and since then I have put this disease in God’s hands, often meeting with my brothers and sisters, and living the church life, my mood has improved, and my face has a smile, and it is no longer the worried face of the past. Sometimes I still worry about my illness, but I can immediately realize that this is Satan’s desire to make me blame God and resist God through my illness, I should not fall for Satan, I should risk my life to satisfy God. So, I kept my heart quiet in front of God, read God’s words to find out God’s heart, and prayed silently from my heart: “God, whether my illness is good or not is in your hands if you let my illness be cured, I will be cured, if this illness is not good for my life, I have no complaints, I am willing to obey, pursue the truth, change my satanic nature, and do my duty to satisfy you!” In this way, I sought again and again through prayer and defeated Satan’s thoughts through God’s Word. One day not long after, I unexpectedly found out that I had a period, and at this moment I cried with emotion and thanked God from the bottom of my heart. Seeing God’s all-powerful sovereignty and the authority and power of God’s Word, God said: “Almighty God is an all-powerful doctor! To live in illness is to be sick, and to live in the spirit is not to be sick”, “Myth is the cure! Humiliate the devil and Satan! Touch the myth to rely on, God’s Word is quick to save the heart! There is no peace in all things.” These words are too practical. Doctors say that menopause cannot be cured, but I just put into practice God’s Word, reversed my view of making a deal with God, and experienced God’s work with a heart of obedience to God, and then I was healed by God, from the doctor’s diagnosis of menopause to the recovery of the disease, in just over 20 days, I saw God’s wonderful deeds, God is so wise and so omnipotent! Although God’s environment does not fit my concept, it is the best. If I hadn’t taken the wrong medicine, I wouldn’t have come to God to pray to God and touch God’s heart, and I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to experience God’s work and experience the truth and reality of God’s Word!
In the following days, my face slowly became rosy, my memory was restored, my eyes were gone, and what was even more amazing was that the arthritis that I couldn’t see well everywhere was cured. Once on the street, a friend I hadn’t seen in a long time said, “Why are you younger than before, you look four or five years younger than before.” Once I met an acquaintance again, and he said, “Why are you so pale and so beautiful now?” I know very well in my heart that this is God’s care and protection and wonderful work.
Thank God! I have never experienced such a trial before, I believe that God is not at all, I do not pursue the truth, I have no faith in God, I just follow the crowd. But from this experience, I have come to know my own despicable heart of believing in God, and I have also seen God’s wonderful deeds so that I no longer follow the crowd of believing in God, I have also truly realized that believing in God should obey God and fear God! All glory be to God, amen!
As I drove home from the library in tears, I crashed into a car parked on the side of the road. At that time, I heard a sentence very clearly: “Can you control everything?” This sentence woke me up like a slap in the face. I used to think that there was nothing in this world that I couldn’t do, but now that my son is sick, I don’t even know the name of the disease. So what am I? The Bible says, “What is a man? God? Do you care about him?” When I saw this sentence before, I thought, I have two PhDs, how can I still say that people are what they are? But now, with the facts in front of me, what am I before God? At that time, the Bible passages that I read in middle school and the years of seeking truth from God all came to mind. I asked myself, “If Jesus Christ is the true God, why don’t I kneel before Him and commit my life to Him?”
I asked myself, who can help me? I know money doesn’t solve the problem, psychologists can’t help me, they will find problems, but they can’t solve such problems. Finally God solved my problems. He said, “Come to me, all those who labor and are heavily laden, and I will give you rest.” That night, I confessed my sins before God, and when I received Jesus Christ by faith, my life was reconnected with God, and He led me through this very difficult road. I knew that I could not raise this son on my own. That night, God shattered my ego.
When I knew the name of my son’s disease, I took him everywhere to see a doctor, but no doctor would take him. They told me not to waste money because there was no cure for this disease. At that time, I began Xi to learn to be a disciple of the Lord, and I prayed for everything, hoping to find a doctor for my son who could heal him. My husband was not a believer at that time, and he said, “That’s your God, and I don’t believe in him, how can I pray with you?” I said, “Don’t you want our son to get better?” So we both prayed about it every day and after three months, we found a Christian psychiatrist who was willing to pray for three days to see what God had to say. Three days later, the psychiatrist called and decided to treat my son, because he found that my son had an IQ of over 145, a very competitive personality, and was not yet six years old, and his temperament was not yet determined, so he decided to take him in.
Then he offered me three conditions:
1. Bring him here twice a week, once for $145, and the disease may drag on for twenty years without any progress, and you can’t say that I cheated you out of your money.
2. You are about to quit your job and not become a doctor because your son will finish his day’s homework in three minutes, and then go to someone else.
3. Talk therapy for my son, because he has been refusing to speak. The doctor said that you just need to teach your son to say “Mommy” every night. For these conditions, I asked the doctor to give me a night to pray.
I didn’t want to pray, I wanted to quarrel with God, I wanted to ask him, can I have both, I want my son, I want my career. I was so confused that I couldn’t pray, and I didn’t know what I was talking about, so I went to the Bible. I said to God, “Where is there now that a man will be fruitful and multiply?” When I prayed again, I was deeply moved in my heart, it turned out that this is God’s priority, God let me know that because my life comes from Him, he should be the first in my life at all times, the second is my family, and the third is my career. But my son’s medical care and Xi need money for everything, so I applied for a research job that could be done after my son fell asleep, so I got into the Xi habit of sleeping only four hours a day.
Every time I take my son to the psychiatrist, it feels like I’m going to send money because my son is like this every day. I’m an impatient person, God uses this to make me develop patience, every day after dinner, I want to grab my son’s chin so that his eyes can look at the shape of my mouth, and then teach him to call him “Mom”. Four years later, one day when I was taking him to see a psychiatrist, the doctor suddenly came out like a madman and said, “He said “NO.” On the way back with my son that day, I said to God, “God! You asked him to say such a difficult word that says NO requires nine nerves and muscles, please let him call me Mom tonight.”
I was very nervous all night, but at half past ten, when his tears fell, I stiffened my heart and refused to stop, I asked God to give me the power and fulfill his promise, and after ten fifty o’clock, he used all his strength to feed, and suddenly cried out: “Mom”, every time I talk about this testimony, I still can’t help but cry, because I have been waiting for this mother for ten years.
Today, my son has finished his junior year of college, has become a believer, can read the Bible by himself, and can write computer software. This is not the work of man. The thirteen medical doctors did not heal him, but when they saw my son healed, they all believed in the Lord. No one can heal my son except God. That night, when he opened his mouth to call “Daddy”, my husband’s joy was indescribable. He was usually very hard and refused to believe in the Lord, but that night he believed and accepted the Lord. At his baptism, he testified: “This God is not only in the pastor’s sermons, but also in the Bible, this God lives in our family of three, and I experience His faithfulness every day, how can I not believe Him?” God has saved our whole family, and His grace to us is innumerable.