Xiaolian is a member of the church choir, taking piano and vocal lessons. When the vocal music class graduated, the teacher asked the students to record a graduation speech. On 8 August 2021, Xiaolian sat down at the piano, opened her heart and spoke. In her seven-minute graduation speech, Xiaolian thanked her teacher, teaching assistant, and class leaders for their dedication and spoke about the grace she experienced during her voice and piano lessons.
It was this video that made Xiaolian's experience known to a wider audience. Xiaolian was a serious cancer patient who was twice refused admission by a hospital. She was still undergoing chemotherapy when she started taking piano lessons and during her vocal studies, she was tested for the spread of her cancer. In the midst of her crisis, she prayed: "O God, you have kept me alive and I will come to praise you. Give me the time and opportunity to come and glorify you and bear witness of you." After the operation, she felt so strong and had so much energy that a patient in her ward teased her: "You are not here to be hospitalized, you are here to be healed."
When the video was submitted, the teacher and class leader were moved by her story. Xiaolian later found out that many of her fellow students were also ill. She felt enlightened: "No wonder I wanted to be a witness! Many people later added her to WeChat and she used her experience to encourage them to trust in God without wavering."
Since she was a child, Xiaolian had wanted to believe in a god that would protect her. At first, she did not want to be bullied by children at school; later, she was looking for a god to rely on. The first god she found was the Monkey King (Sun Wukong), who was feared by all the monsters in the “Journey to the West”. After growing up and joining the labor force, she worked in sales at the cosmetics counter in her hometown mall and heard about Jesus from a janitor in the mall. She went to a meeting place and began to believe in Jesus together with a group of ladies in their 70s and 80s. It was 1989, and the old ladies could not read or write much, so she taught and sang praises for them while growing in her faith.
Later, Xiaolian started a family, went to Beijing to start a business, and bought a house, but she cut contact with the church for more than ten years. In 2008, when her new house was renovated and she moved in, a church was located only one stop away from her home. She therefore again began attending meetings regularly. She gradually became involved by serving and volunteering at the church. "It was at the beginning of 2017 that I got sick and was still not relying on God, I was relying on myself. But my health deteriorated seriously and I was completely broken."
At the beginning of 2020, Xiaolian's illness got even worse, but for nearly two months, no hospital was willing to accept her. It was a tense time in the national fight against coronavirus and medical resources were scarce. Because she had terminal cancer and a malignant tumor, hospitals did not want to accept her. Haunting hospitals like in the “parable of the desperate widow”, Xiaolian finally found a hospital willing to admit her.
Soon, Xiaolian was released. She had become the last patient and the hospital was about to close. The Holy Spirit reminded her of the story of the widow in Luke 18 who pled with an unjust judge. God instructed her to ask for a doctor, and so she returned to a hospital.
The process of convincing the doctor was a battle of wills: "Director, please save me, I am only in my forties and have only just begun with my new life. My son is not yet married and I have not seen my grandchildren. I’m unwilling to leave."
“I cannot save you in this condition, so do not make it difficult for me."
"Director, I'm not asking you to save me, just stop the bleeding first." At that time, Xiaolian's tumor was so big and frightful that blood kept seeping through her clothes.
The director was sitting inside and she was sitting on the floor in the hall. Neither of them spoke. After about five minutes, the director said that he could only try to stop the bleeding and asked her if she was willing to take chemotherapy. She said “yes” and got her hospital admission slip.
After she was admitted to a new place, the whole hospital did much to save her and she was given infusions from morning to night. Weighing only a little over ninety pounds (41 kilos), Xiaolian's whole body was deformed and when she went for a scan, she was taken to be pregnant.
After surviving six rounds of chemotherapy, she was re-examined and the cancer had metastasized. The hospital said they would not take her back. Believing that God would get her through, Xiaolian searched for a hospital again for nearly two months.
At another hospital, a full body check-up was done for seven days. The doctor said it was risky, but she assured that she could handle it and would cooperate fully. She was allergic, and on the day she was hospitalized, a rash broke out all over her body. She prayed for herself and asked the sisters in the church to pray for her. The rash went away before she arrived at the operating table. "It was indeed amazing".
God's word was with her throughout the surgery. There were sisters from church who kept watch and prayed for her outside the hospital.
When she was hospitalized in the second hospital, Xiaolian was taking vocal lessons and needed to practice and hand in assignments. "I got up for that at once and told myself: ‘How can I have faith and strength without praise? Sometimes the words of the Bible do not make much sense, but doesn't strength come through praise?’"
Hence the scene at the beginning of the article in which Xiaolian recorded her testimony. After experiencing grace, how could she hide it? After sharing, she realized there were many people in the same situation as she. She had received grace first in order to be a comforter and helper to others.
People came to confide in her because they had edema, were nauseous, and could not eat because of chemotherapy. She used her own experience to exhort patients to trust in God and believe that His grace is sufficient. She had had a 40*60 tumor and the blood had been flowing so strongly that the nurses were afraid to change her dressing. She was hospitalized alone and so she had gone to the bathroom by herself to change the dressing, which spilled all over the floor. The nurse hired by the patient could not bear to watch and had helped her secretly. Another nurse in the ward, a pastor, helped take care of her for a week.
In October 2022, Xiaolian had her second check-up for the year, the last one being in January. For ten months, she had taken no medication and received no injections. The results were the most satisfactory in her five years of illness. The attending doctor was surprised to the point of disbelief! When she heard the good news, she told her brothers and sisters at church. "Without their prayers and God doing His work, how could there otherwise have been such good results?"
After being in the hospital frequently, patients who are hospitalized together communicate with each other on occasion afterward, and they basically all know each other. Patients envied her: "You are not here to be hospitalized, you are here on vacation." The nurse admitted: "When you came through the door, I really did not think you would leave alive." The director took his students to Xiaolian's ward every day for practical studies. She had become a case study for the oncology department.
"What should I do? I will hasten to preach about my God." But to preach the Gospel, the words must be appropriate. Throughout her years in hospitals, Xiaolian has seen all kinds of patients. There were those whose families worshipped idols, those whose mothers believed and they themselves did not believe. There were also those in high positions of authority who despised her, and she would respond with appropriate words.
Xiaolian experienced grace and witnessed God because she had an intimate relationship with Him. Her relationship with God could not have existed without her daily devotions. During her years of medical care, Xiaolian had never stopped her morning devotions.
When she was in the hospital for chemotherapy, she wore headphones and knew that God was with her even if she only heard one word. "Where does my strength come from? It comes from the word of God. God's word is power, is it not?" Empowered by God's word, she was able to comfort other patients and preach the Gospel to them even when she was in extreme distress and did not want to speak.
Xiaolian is a member of the church choir and takes piano and vocal lessons. What was meant to be a way to better serve God has in turn become strength in her fight against illness. Her studies have continued and she is now an advanced student. She has no problem playing and singing the usual songs. Xiaolian speaks with a loud, mid-range voice and has dark, thick hair - the result of her prayers to God. Her hair had fallen out during chemotherapy, but it has grown back and now there is more of it than ever before. prayers to God. Her hair had fallen out during chemotherapy, but now it has all grown back and there is more of it than before.
- Translated by Nonye Nancy
晓莲是教会的诗班成员，学习钢琴和声乐。声乐班毕业的时候，老师让学员录一段毕业感言。2021年8月8日，晓莲坐在钢琴边，，一气呵成，将心里话都说了出来。在这7分钟的毕业感言中，晓莲感谢老师、助教老师和班长的付出，讲述了自己在学习声乐课程以及之前的钢琴课程中经历的恩典。
也是这段视频让大家知道了晓莲的经历。晓莲是一名重症癌症患者，医院曾拒收两次。她学习钢琴的时候还在化疗中，后来学习声乐期间，又被检查出癌细胞扩散。危难之中，她和神祷告，“神啊，你存留我的性命，我要来赞美你。你给我预备时间和机会，让我能来荣耀你，见证你。”做完手术，她觉得力气十足，有使不完的劲儿，有同病房的病人调侃她，“你哪是来住院的，是来疗养的。”
视频提交上去，老师和班长为她的故事感动。后来她才发现，一起学习的学员有很多是患病的。她焕然大悟，怪不得我想做这个见证。后来很多人加了她微信，她用自己的经历鼓励他们不动摇地信靠神。
晓莲从小就想信一位神保护自己。最开始是希望在学校不受小朋友欺负，后来想给人生找一个依靠。她找到的第一个神是孙悟空，西游记里的妖怪都怕他。长大参加工作，在家乡的商场化妆品专柜做销售，从商场的清洁工姊妹那里听说了耶稣。去了聚会点，她和一群七八十岁的老太太开始信耶稣。那时候是1989年，老太太们识字不多，她教唱赞美，在那里成长了几年。
再后来，晓莲成了家、有了孩子，到北京创业、买了房子，却也十几年和教会断了联系。零八年新房装修好搬进去，教会离家只有一站地，这才又慢慢恢复了稳定的聚会。她逐渐参与服侍，做了教会义工。“就是2017年一开始得病那会，我也不依靠神，还是靠着自己。到后面身体实在不行，完全崩溃了。”
2020年年初，晓莲病情复发。近两个月都没有找到愿意接收的医院。彼时正是全国抗击新冠肺炎的紧张时期，医疗资源紧缺。她是癌症晚期，又是恶性肿瘤，很多医院都不收。最终，晓莲靠着“寡妇式的缠磨”找到了愿意收治的医院。
当时晓莲又被一家医院打发出来，她是最后一位病人，医院就要关门。圣灵让她想起路加福音18章寡妇求不义的官的故事，神指示她去求医生，她就折返回去。
说服医生的过程是一场意志的较量：
“主任，求你救我，我才四十多岁，我的新生活才刚开始，儿子还没娶媳妇，也没见着孙子，我不甘心。”
“你这种情况，我救不了，你不要为难我。”
“主任，我不求你救活我，先把血止住也行。”当时晓莲肿瘤大的吓人，血一直流，从衣服往外渗。
主任在里面坐着，她在大厅的地上坐着，两人都没有开口。
大概过了5分钟，主任说只能尽力把血止住，问她愿不愿意化疗。她忙说愿意，然后拿到了住院单。
住院之后，整个医院都在抢救她，输液从早输到晚。九十多斤的晓莲整个人都变形了，去做CT竟然被当成了孕妇。
熬过六次化疗后，再复查，癌细胞转移了。医院说什么都不收她了。晓莲相信神必让她度过难关，又重新寻找医院近两个月的时间。
在第二个医院，做了七天的全身检查。医生说很冒险，她说能承受，一定全力配合。她是过敏体质，住院那天突然全身起了疹子。她自己祷告，也请教会的姐妹们代祷。上手术台之前，疹子都下去了，“就是这么神奇”。
手术的过程中，神的话始终伴随着她。有教会的姐妹一直在医院外面为她守望祷告。
在第二家医院住院治疗的时候，晓莲正在学习声乐课程，需要跟着老师讲的练习、交作业。“从那时候我就一下起来了，不赞美哪有信心，哪有力量。有时候圣经上的话意思不明白，但你赞美的时候，力量不就来了吗？”
因此有了文章开头晓莲录下自己见证的那一幕。经历了恩典，如何能隐藏？分享后她才知道，有那么多和自己一样处境的人，原来自己先得到恩典为要成为别人的安慰者、帮助者。
有人因为化疗水肿、恶心、吃不下饭，来找她倾诉。她用自己的经历劝勉病友信靠神，神的恩典够用。她有个40*60的肿瘤，血一直流，护士都不敢给她换药。她一个人住院，自己去卫生间换药，药洒了一地。病友请的护工看不下去，偷偷帮助她。病房里另有一位护工是教会传道人，帮助照顾了她一个星期。
刚过去的这个十月，晓莲做了今年第二次复查，上一次检查还是一月份。整整十个月，她没有吃药，没有打针。检查结果却是生病五年来最满意的一次，连主治医生都惊讶到不敢相信！知道好消息，她第一时间告诉教会的弟兄姐妹。“没有他们的祷告，没有神做工，怎么会有这么好的结果？”
医院去的多了，一起住院的病友隔三岔五地交流，基本都认识。病友羡慕她：“你哪是来住院的，你是来旅游的。” 护士说：“当时你进这个门，真没想到你能出去。”主任带着他的学生每天去晓莲病房就地教学实践，她成了肿瘤科的教学案例。
“我怎么办，我赶紧传我的神呀。”不过传福音，话要说得合宜。这些年住院，晓莲见过各式各样的病人。有家里拜偶像的，有妈妈信仰 自己不信的，也有家里位高权重藐视她的，她都用合宜的话应答。
晓莲经历恩典、为神见证，都因为她和神有亲密的关系。和神关系的建立，离不开她日常坚持灵修。看病这几年，晓莲从未间断过早灵修。
在医院化疗的时候，她戴着耳机，哪怕只听进去一句，也知道有神同在。“我的力量从哪里来？就从神的话来的。神的话就是能力，是吧？”从神的话语里得到力量，她能在自己极度难受、不愿开口说话的时候劝慰别的病人，传福音给他们。
晓莲是教会的诗班成员，学习钢琴和声乐。本是为了更好地侍奉神，却反过来成了她在抗击病魔时的力量。她的学习还在继续，现在是高级班的学员。一般的歌曲，弹唱都没有问题。晓莲说起话来声音洪亮，中气十足，一头秀发乌黑浓密——这也是她向神祷告的结果。化疗时期头发掉光了，现在都长出来了，还比以前更多了。
https://www.gospeltimes.cn/article/index/id/65971
活着就是要感谢赞美、为主见证——一位抗癌姐妹的生命故事
Xiaolian is a member of the church choir, taking piano and vocal lessons. When the vocal music class graduated, the teacher asked the students to record a graduation speech. On 8 August 2021, Xiaolian sat down at the piano, opened her heart and spoke. In her seven-minute graduation speech, Xiaolian thanked her teacher, teaching assistant, and class leaders for their dedication and spoke about the grace she experienced during her voice and piano lessons.
It was this video that made Xiaolian's experience known to a wider audience. Xiaolian was a serious cancer patient who was twice refused admission by a hospital. She was still undergoing chemotherapy when she started taking piano lessons and during her vocal studies, she was tested for the spread of her cancer. In the midst of her crisis, she prayed: "O God, you have kept me alive and I will come to praise you. Give me the time and opportunity to come and glorify you and bear witness of you." After the operation, she felt so strong and had so much energy that a patient in her ward teased her: "You are not here to be hospitalized, you are here to be healed."
When the video was submitted, the teacher and class leader were moved by her story. Xiaolian later found out that many of her fellow students were also ill. She felt enlightened: "No wonder I wanted to be a witness! Many people later added her to WeChat and she used her experience to encourage them to trust in God without wavering."
Since she was a child, Xiaolian had wanted to believe in a god that would protect her. At first, she did not want to be bullied by children at school; later, she was looking for a god to rely on. The first god she found was the Monkey King (Sun Wukong), who was feared by all the monsters in the “Journey to the West”. After growing up and joining the labor force, she worked in sales at the cosmetics counter in her hometown mall and heard about Jesus from a janitor in the mall. She went to a meeting place and began to believe in Jesus together with a group of ladies in their 70s and 80s. It was 1989, and the old ladies could not read or write much, so she taught and sang praises for them while growing in her faith.
Later, Xiaolian started a family, went to Beijing to start a business, and bought a house, but she cut contact with the church for more than ten years. In 2008, when her new house was renovated and she moved in, a church was located only one stop away from her home. She therefore again began attending meetings regularly. She gradually became involved by serving and volunteering at the church. "It was at the beginning of 2017 that I got sick and was still not relying on God, I was relying on myself. But my health deteriorated seriously and I was completely broken."
At the beginning of 2020, Xiaolian's illness got even worse, but for nearly two months, no hospital was willing to accept her. It was a tense time in the national fight against coronavirus and medical resources were scarce. Because she had terminal cancer and a malignant tumor, hospitals did not want to accept her. Haunting hospitals like in the “parable of the desperate widow”, Xiaolian finally found a hospital willing to admit her.
Soon, Xiaolian was released. She had become the last patient and the hospital was about to close. The Holy Spirit reminded her of the story of the widow in Luke 18 who pled with an unjust judge. God instructed her to ask for a doctor, and so she returned to a hospital.
The process of convincing the doctor was a battle of wills: "Director, please save me, I am only in my forties and have only just begun with my new life. My son is not yet married and I have not seen my grandchildren. I’m unwilling to leave."
“I cannot save you in this condition, so do not make it difficult for me."
"Director, I'm not asking you to save me, just stop the bleeding first." At that time, Xiaolian's tumor was so big and frightful that blood kept seeping through her clothes.
The director was sitting inside and she was sitting on the floor in the hall. Neither of them spoke. After about five minutes, the director said that he could only try to stop the bleeding and asked her if she was willing to take chemotherapy. She said “yes” and got her hospital admission slip.
After she was admitted to a new place, the whole hospital did much to save her and she was given infusions from morning to night. Weighing only a little over ninety pounds (41 kilos), Xiaolian's whole body was deformed and when she went for a scan, she was taken to be pregnant.
After surviving six rounds of chemotherapy, she was re-examined and the cancer had metastasized. The hospital said they would not take her back. Believing that God would get her through, Xiaolian searched for a hospital again for nearly two months.
At another hospital, a full body check-up was done for seven days. The doctor said it was risky, but she assured that she could handle it and would cooperate fully. She was allergic, and on the day she was hospitalized, a rash broke out all over her body. She prayed for herself and asked the sisters in the church to pray for her. The rash went away before she arrived at the operating table. "It was indeed amazing".
God's word was with her throughout the surgery. There were sisters from church who kept watch and prayed for her outside the hospital.
When she was hospitalized in the second hospital, Xiaolian was taking vocal lessons and needed to practice and hand in assignments. "I got up for that at once and told myself: ‘How can I have faith and strength without praise? Sometimes the words of the Bible do not make much sense, but doesn't strength come through praise?’"
Hence the scene at the beginning of the article in which Xiaolian recorded her testimony. After experiencing grace, how could she hide it? After sharing, she realized there were many people in the same situation as she. She had received grace first in order to be a comforter and helper to others.
People came to confide in her because they had edema, were nauseous, and could not eat because of chemotherapy. She used her own experience to exhort patients to trust in God and believe that His grace is sufficient. She had had a 40*60 tumor and the blood had been flowing so strongly that the nurses were afraid to change her dressing. She was hospitalized alone and so she had gone to the bathroom by herself to change the dressing, which spilled all over the floor. The nurse hired by the patient could not bear to watch and had helped her secretly. Another nurse in the ward, a pastor, helped take care of her for a week.
In October 2022, Xiaolian had her second check-up for the year, the last one being in January. For ten months, she had taken no medication and received no injections. The results were the most satisfactory in her five years of illness. The attending doctor was surprised to the point of disbelief! When she heard the good news, she told her brothers and sisters at church. "Without their prayers and God doing His work, how could there otherwise have been such good results?"
After being in the hospital frequently, patients who are hospitalized together communicate with each other on occasion afterward, and they basically all know each other. Patients envied her: "You are not here to be hospitalized, you are here on vacation." The nurse admitted: "When you came through the door, I really did not think you would leave alive." The director took his students to Xiaolian's ward every day for practical studies. She had become a case study for the oncology department.
"What should I do? I will hasten to preach about my God." But to preach the Gospel, the words must be appropriate. Throughout her years in hospitals, Xiaolian has seen all kinds of patients. There were those whose families worshipped idols, those whose mothers believed and they themselves did not believe. There were also those in high positions of authority who despised her, and she would respond with appropriate words.
Xiaolian experienced grace and witnessed God because she had an intimate relationship with Him. Her relationship with God could not have existed without her daily devotions. During her years of medical care, Xiaolian had never stopped her morning devotions.
When she was in the hospital for chemotherapy, she wore headphones and knew that God was with her even if she only heard one word. "Where does my strength come from? It comes from the word of God. God's word is power, is it not?" Empowered by God's word, she was able to comfort other patients and preach the Gospel to them even when she was in extreme distress and did not want to speak.
Xiaolian is a member of the church choir and takes piano and vocal lessons. What was meant to be a way to better serve God has in turn become strength in her fight against illness. Her studies have continued and she is now an advanced student. She has no problem playing and singing the usual songs. Xiaolian speaks with a loud, mid-range voice and has dark, thick hair - the result of her prayers to God. Her hair had fallen out during chemotherapy, but it has grown back and now there is more of it than ever before. prayers to God. Her hair had fallen out during chemotherapy, but now it has all grown back and there is more of it than before.
- Translated by Nonye Nancy
Life-Saving Story of a Sister Fighting Cancer
