Voting for Best Original Song, Destiny Music Awards 2011

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Sharing by Caline - Destiny @ Olive Vine (19 Nov 2011)

When I was about 11 years old and on one Sunday, my mum shared a testimony about our family in front of the entire church. I did not know she was going to share in this testimony and she never told me about it.

On that day, I found out that when she was carrying me, she and my dad had a huge fight. And out of anger, my dad said that "the child you’re carrying isn’t mine". So my mum wanted to abort me because for one, we were not financially stable enough to raise another child and secondly because of what my dad said, she was really hurt.

So what happened was that when she was lying on the operation table, the doctor asked her if she was sure that she wanted to abort the baby. She said that she couldn’t afford it if they have to do a C-section during labour, if it was a natural birth, she would be able to afford it.

So the doctor whom I think was God-sent, told her that even if she had to go through an operation, he would still charge her as a natural birth fee. That was what changed my mother’s mind and she gave birth to me.

By the way the doctor really kept his word.

I felt really confused when I heard this story. Because from the moment I was born till now, I am very attached to my father and he has always been there for me. When I was younger, I would wait for him to come home every night so that I could hold his hand or I wouldn’t be able to fall asleep. He’s the man who carried me in heavy rain to the doctor when I had high fever. He fell and hit his head because he was protecting me. I was hurt because the father who loves me so much said something like that before. I was upset that I almost couldn’t have been here and I had to find out about this in front of everyone.

But God is amazing. He gently reminded me of how my family is right now. Nobody loved me lesser and we are happy and complete.

I realize that my dad is not a perfect person, he makes mistakes and out of the three children in my family, he dotes on me the most.

My name 'Caline' means Heaven’s Grace. My family told me that they gave me this name because I was Heaven’s grace and I brought joy to the family. And when I thought about all these, I knew that all that mattered was how happy we are right now.

It is also through God’s work that our story was broadcast on television. It just so happened, there was a reporter working for “特写 Te Xie” on Channel 8 who heard our story and needed our kind of story for the next episode.

So we got on TV and we went through interviews, hoping to use our story to touch the lives of others. Two years later, our story caught the eye of another reporter who re-interviewed us and we appeared on Channel News Asia. This is really how amazing God is.

It makes me think that every thing happens for a reason. My story started when I was in my mother’s womb. 11 years later my story was shared to help people who are going through the same struggle my mother had experienced.

My story was used to help people who felt the same way as I did. And for all of that, I am very thankful. May all glory go to God.

.. Caline