The 82-year-old American pastor Lynn Love sold her villas, backyard mountain forests and pedestrian cars in Boston, exchanged all her household assets for cash for suitcases and embarked on a single flight to China.This trip had only one purpose: to fulfill the oath of "I will surely come back to you" when she was 13 years old in Shandong Chat City to her childhood companion, which she has remembered for 69 years.
It sounds like a movie plot, but it really happened. An 82-year-old American sold all his American belongings and came to China alone with money in his pocket, just for a promise with his childhood playmate 69 years ago.
Nowadays it is often said that "promises are not worth money", but she loves to prove with her whole life that some promises are more valuable than gold.
In 1930, when she went to chat with her missionary father in the city, she was still a little girl, climbing with Chinese children and fighting together, and friendship was pure as white water.
Later, the war forced her to return to the United States. When she parted, the sentence "I will definitely come back to you" might be a casual comfort for others, but she was engraved in her heart.
In the decades of safe days in the United States, she has not had a day without engaging with the old guy in Chatham City, such a "spacecraft of the Pacific", is not common people can insist on.
At the age of 75, she first returned to Chatting City to find friends, but unfortunately Zhou Lin Ji has died, so as to find old friend children and old acquaintances, this reunion made her "stay" more firm, 7 years later, 82 years old, she simply sold Boston's villa, mountain forest, car, and came with cash.
Think of it, 82-year-old should have been at home with a son-in-law, enjoying late years, but she dared to cross the ocean alone, this courage and persistence, all because of the heart that "can't eat the words".
When she arrived in Liumiao Village, yanggu county, Liaocheng, she didn't regard herself as a "foreign distinguished guest" at all. She added computers and built libraries to primary schools, fearing that the children would not have books to read; I took the doctor door-to-door to give free clinics to the elderly, fearing that it would be difficult for the villagers to see a doctor, and learned to speak Shandong dialect, followed the villagers to do farm work, and even the cost of food and clothing was the same as that of the villagers.
The villagers called her "Grandma Shepherd", which was not polite, but really regarded her as her own family. She changed her "promise" from "finding friends" to "living with these friends" with her actions.
After the death of Palin Love in 2013, even the bodies were donated to the local medical school, she was really "giving herself all" this land that took her life.
Later, the primary school in the village was renamed "Sino-US Friendship Primary School" and a monument was erected. This is not a simple memorial, but to let future generations remember that there is such an old American who spent his whole life writing a story about "commitment" and "love".
Now there is always a saying that "humanity is thin" and "interest is supreme", and the story of pastoral love hits the ears of these statements.
She let us understand that the real promise is never "on the one hand", but "the rest of the life to practice", the real emotion is never national boundaries, as long as the heart is engaged, further distance, for a long time, can not stop the footsteps of "home."
It sounds like a movie plot, but it really happened. An 82-year-old American sold all his American belongings and came to China alone with money in his pocket, just for a promise with his childhood playmate 69 years ago.
Nowadays it is often said that "promises are not worth money", but she loves to prove with her whole life that some promises are more valuable than gold.
In 1930, when she went to chat with her missionary father in the city, she was still a little girl, climbing with Chinese children and fighting together, and friendship was pure as white water.
Later, the war forced her to return to the United States. When she parted, the sentence "I will definitely come back to you" might be a casual comfort for others, but she was engraved in her heart.
In the decades of safe days in the United States, she has not had a day without engaging with the old guy in Chatham City, such a "spacecraft of the Pacific", is not common people can insist on.
At the age of 75, she first returned to Chatting City to find friends, but unfortunately Zhou Lin Ji has died, so as to find old friend children and old acquaintances, this reunion made her "stay" more firm, 7 years later, 82 years old, she simply sold Boston's villa, mountain forest, car, and came with cash.
Think of it, 82-year-old should have been at home with a son-in-law, enjoying late years, but she dared to cross the ocean alone, this courage and persistence, all because of the heart that "can't eat the words".
When she arrived in Liumiao Village, yanggu county, Liaocheng, she didn't regard herself as a "foreign distinguished guest" at all. She added computers and built libraries to primary schools, fearing that the children would not have books to read; I took the doctor door-to-door to give free clinics to the elderly, fearing that it would be difficult for the villagers to see a doctor, and learned to speak Shandong dialect, followed the villagers to do farm work, and even the cost of food and clothing was the same as that of the villagers.
The villagers called her "Grandma Shepherd", which was not polite, but really regarded her as her own family. She changed her "promise" from "finding friends" to "living with these friends" with her actions.
After the death of Palin Love in 2013, even the bodies were donated to the local medical school, she was really "giving herself all" this land that took her life.
Later, the primary school in the village was renamed "Sino-US Friendship Primary School" and a monument was erected. This is not a simple memorial, but to let future generations remember that there is such an old American who spent his whole life writing a story about "commitment" and "love".
Now there is always a saying that "humanity is thin" and "interest is supreme", and the story of pastoral love hits the ears of these statements.
She let us understand that the real promise is never "on the one hand", but "the rest of the life to practice", the real emotion is never national boundaries, as long as the heart is engaged, further distance, for a long time, can not stop the footsteps of "home."