God Sends Us an Angel

By "Melon Seed," Taoyuan, Formosa (Originally in Chinese)

On my recent trip to Bangladesh to distribute "Alternative Living" pamphlets with a group of Formosan initiates, my fellow work team members and I were assisted by Mr. Bian, a devout Christian and owner of a local building materials company. Besides meeting us at the airport and getting us settled in a hotel in a safe district containing foreign embassies, Mr. Bian also found time to help us handle other matters, including printing several thousand copies of the pamphlet in Bengali, renting cars, making airline reservations for local travel and buying prepaid local cell phone cards. He also asked his company's personnel manager to take care of us, and understanding the inconvenience of finding vegetarian food in Bangladesh, considerately allowed the initiates to use his home kitchen and rest on the second floor of his house. We were both amazed and touched while experiencing his arrangements as our uneasiness in the country vanished without a trace, and we were certain that this saintly person was an angel sent by God.

Moreover, all the initiates were delighted with their spacious, elegantly decorated hotel rooms, where we were greeted by a bouquet of fresh-cut flowers and a fruit basket on each of our dressing tables that Mr. Bian had especially requested for us.

On the third day of our trip, Mr. Bian personally prepared lunch and dinner for us, and surprisingly, his first attempt at vegetarian cooking produced delicious, aromatic and tempting dishes. Then, while leading us in a prayer before dinner, he said, "May God bless these people with a safe, successful journey in Bangladesh, and enable me to do my best to help them accomplish their task of serving the multitude." We were touched by his words, and some of the initiates even had tears in their eyes. Mr. Bian's generous spirit of sacrifice and service is worthy of emulation by everyone.