Seven Miracles in 2 weeks.

Peter Y. Woo, 1/20/2020

The following is what I wrote to bros. and sis of my Dad's church.  Haylock means "joy".  Like to share with you 

Dear Haylock B&S,  

Recently there were 5 miracles in one week. 

Miracle 1 and 2:  My beloved Y was having laryngitis.  Also relative S was in hospital.  We prayed and asked friends to pray. 

Soon I discovered God granted us right moments of contacting relative S's husband, who is often sleeping because he labored for hours with her wife at midnight in hospital, I knew God is at work.  2 days later S was released to go home.  Her husband did not want us to visit her at hospital, and when she was released she said the hospital is a messy place, "Glad that you did not visit there".  So I know God would help Y's laryngitis.  Indeed she was healed in a few days. 

      Then the third miracle happened.  I wanted to visit a good Chinese pastor John Hwang at Calvary Chapel, instead, we met a pastor (forgot to ask his name) who prayed for Gloria because we have searched the whole house and my car in vain for a pair of long pants.  Can you believe it: after about 30 minutes we found it is lying under a small green towel 18 by 12 inches, in my car's back seat.  We have had searched that place a few times, now we found it.  Can you believe it? an adult long pants under that small towel?  So God brought us joy, and we went back to Calv. Chapel to thank that pastor.  There were some 20 pastors there.  So that is third miracle. 

     Then 4th miracle: my cell phone refused to be charged. So I went to a cellphone company T-Mobile.  They said my cable was bad, and then "No, your plug of the cable in the cell phone was bad."  I had to buy a new cellphone.  Ai Ya, horrible. Cheapest: $140.   

Suddenly I had an idea from God:  "Go buy a second hand cellphone."  I remember a closeby cell phone shop.  I went there, the lady opened my cellphone in a smack of her hand, with a small screw driveron her other hand she poked it here and there.  After 2 minutes, she inserted my cable and it works!  I want to give her $5 USD (I am a steenjy Chinaman) for tea or coffee, her Boss refused.  Wow, God paid me instead the $140!  I was happy ever after.  

     God was teaching me something:  Don't try to make money.  Do a job for Me insted. I found out this morning I admire missionary Eric Yang of OMF, 25 years in Golden Triangle.  Back to San Jose to share his experience. he went back to his car, and Boom, he fell, and went to Heaven with no pain, no hospital.  Such a way to go, for a servant of God!.  

    I begin to print 愛的教育in English, as "Heart - - - - the Diary of a Schoolboy" by Amicis 阿米契斯, at $6.25 a copy, 200 pages, to encourage young parents from China to improve their English and to share with their kids how to appreciate love at school, between classmates.  Most of the Sunday school class are immigrants from Shanghai area.  They never, never heard of the book.  It was translated into Chinese by 夏丏尊，a contemporary writer same time with 巴金 and 魯迅 (Ba Jin and Loo Xuen) that you and I are familiar with back in junior high.  Next time I will introduce them Isobel Kuhn's "by Searching", 尋。- - - - 

     I forgot a 5th miracle: My car's left front has a big dent, about 12 inches diameter.  Some car hits me in some parking lot, and ran away, leaving some red paint on my car.  I went to my insurance company, they said, "First $1000 you pay.  Over that we pay".  Ah , I have not that income.  

       So I took it to my favorite Vietnamese repair shop.  I thought it will be several hundred dollars.  But they send the car to a next door crummy body repair shop, and the master spray it with steam, and suddenly, without pair of pliers or hammer, he put his hand (he lay on floor) to the dent's back and pushed out the dent in 3 minutes (or less).  Wow! 20 years ago when car fenders were made of metal, this is unheard of.  Then with a cloth, he wiped away the red paint.  This is unexpected.  Then he sprayed some more cleaning stuff, and the fender was restored, like new!   Some part of the front bumper got broken, he spent some 10 minutes pushing it back, and put some hand held "hair dryer" to weld it together, almost like new.  Then he charged me $40.  Wow, 20 years ago such a welding job will be hundreds of dollars, and you have to wear a mask with dark glasses.  He did everything without a single hammer or plier, and that is it: only $40.  I paid him an extra $5 for tea (I am a steenjee Chinese!).  Afterwards my wife went to a Vietnamese shop and bought 2 packs of sweet egg rolls or biscuit, took it back to him.  He and others were rejoicing.  We rejoiced more.  I cannot imagine these days when cars' outside shell is made of plastic, and can soften up by steam, etc. etc.  My concept of car repairs have to be relearned.  Hey, if you are in Orange County, I can recommend Frank's Garage to you.  Better still, learn some Vietnamese, we can witness how God answers prayer to them.  So I rejoiced very much last week.  God saved me hundreds of dollars. - - - - Peter Y. Woo,  the undeserved guy. 

Miracle 6.   1/20/2020 what a day, what a date! 

Today, miracle 6 happened.  In the morning we went to swim a few laps, in an indoor 25 yards pool.  Then we went home. 

But then we remember one thing we need to do:  A company  who claimed to be a Billing Department of company "UC", (Urgent Care Orange County, etc.) billed me $669 because we went to UC twice last July for clearing of our ears, (we are old folks now).  We, as most middle class Americans, at age 65 or more,  have Medicare, i.e., USA Government pays for 80 percent of our medical bills, (but not Chinese herbal medicine, of course). 

So these "urgent care" shops, does not mean you can go there if you have urgent ailment that needs care at midnight  They are  open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays only, and "urgent care" means you don't have to make an appointment, only go anytime and line up, like in Hong Kong.  They should have been called "appointment-less medical care" shops. 

I got the bill one month ago, I thought I should take it to USA's Medicare Department office to beg them pay it, rather than waiting "3 hours" on the phone to speak to a real person, etc. etc.  So I went back to the UC shop.  They went to the computer, and did not find the bill they sent us, but the amount was paid!  So they told me to go home, find the bill, make sure it is not fake.  I then went home, searched everywhere for the bill.   

Soon, I almost heard the voice of God, "Go look under the windshield, in front of the steering wheel where you place some maps".  So I went there. Oops, there is a yellow envelope, in which is the Bill, from UC Billing Dept!  Wow, God is at work.   

I took the Bill back to UC shop, this time there was a girl behind the main desk.  She looked at the computer, and said, "Indeed your $669 has been paid already."  This was miracle 6!.  Then how come they sent me the bill?  She said, "It was our company that made the mistake.  They sent you the bill by mistake!"  I thought this is America, everything goes computerized and perfect , and such mistakes do not exist.  Now they do, just like in China.   

  So I finally recognize it is indeed a Miracle from God.  For incidents like these do not happen once in a blue moon, in American companies. 

They said also the bill has been paid by the Medicare Dept.  I am indeed $669 richer.  God supplies all our needs, indeed. 

From now on I will rely on the ear cleaning solutions of Rite Aid or Chinese herb shops.  I don't like these $300+ each time visits to Urgent Care, even while I like their friendliness.   

        Miracle 7. Feb. 8th. I got a good mexican Christian laborer V who often helped me for fixing broken things, or help me with gardening work. Today after me spending some minutes in writing an email to help evangelising some friend who was King Edward Scholar in my class, for 3 years in HK Univ. Suddenly the doorbell rang. It was V. He came just for a friendly chat. I let him have 3 tangerines from my tree. He took four.! Later I asked him could he came twice a month to cut my grass. He said, after some thought, "Twice a month for $50" This is cheaper than my existing gardener, who is getting lazier and lazier. So I shall fire the gardener, and then employ V. God thus helped me to save $50 a month! Hallelujah. I said, "Thank You, Lord!"