A Swedish Girl's Wish: Making One Thousand Paper Lotus Flowers to Help End the Persecution (Photos)

By a Swedish practitioner

(Clearwisdom.net) Accompanied by her mother, twelve-year-old Elvelina attended the activities held by Nordic Falun Gong practitioners during the Easter holidays. She had a dream the night of March 26^th, 2005. She dreamt that if she could make one thousand paper lotus flowers, the persecution against Falun Gong practitioners in China would end. She told the dream to her friend, another girl of the same age, when she woke up in the morning. The two girls started folding paper lotus flowers right away.

Young Swedish practitioner, Elvelina

The lotus flowers they folded were unique. They were very vivid and had silver-edged petals, while others had golden buds. Every lotus flower was filled with the young girls' compassionate hope. They wanted to send these meticulously made lotus flowers to the people of the world and remind them that, "the world needs Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance."

After hearing about this touching story, a fellow Falun Gong practitioner told them, "Your dream represents a wonderful wish. The wish will come true when it's really strong." The practitioner continued, saying that she was born in North Korea and moved to Sweden after being adopted. Her mother in Korea would fold a paper crane whenever she missed her daughter, because she was once told that the wish to see her daughter again would come true if she could fold one thousand paper cranes. Her mother did fold one thousand paper cranes and saved them in a jar. Mother and daughter eventually met again thirty years later.

Elvelina's dream will not remain just a dream; it will become a wonderful reality in the future.

The two girls planned to continue making the lotus flowers after returning home. Along with their compassionate blessings, they will distribute the thousand lotus flowers to people during summer activities. Their idea inspired other children. Everyone was eager to offer help.

Each lotus flower carries the wonderful wish of children

The adult practitioners were deeply moved by the children. They promised that they would provide all kinds of colored paper so that the wonderful dream of the children could be realized as soon as possible.

Source : http://clearharmony.net/articles/200504/25814p.html

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/4/3/98749.html

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