My encounter with Fr. Ronald started in an English conversation class offered free to the medical college where I was employed as a research assistant to the library director. The year was 1984 when I had applied for the graduate school of several universities in the U.S.
I have never met anyone so warm and accepting with such genuine smiles and obvious happiness. I was completed drawn to him. My speaking ability improved dramatically. Now I understand it was because of the 'natural language' approach. But he's the one that changed my perception of the English-speaking people in the world - the old impressions I had gotten from the Hollywood films on the screen, the capitalists on the news, the colonists in history books ...
So when I received his obitury and a card full of pictures of his life activies from his brother in Nevada, I was shocked and all the memory rushed back to me. The last time I received his e-mail was in the summer of 2007. He said he would say a prayer for my upcoming surgery. Indeed, I was very, very scared at the time - because I thought I was going to die from the Breast cancer recurrence some time soon.
He had posted many interesting articles on
http://www.erenlai.com
'ren-lai' means 'human sound' as compared to 'tien-lai' which means heavenly sound. ['Lai' is also an ancient Chinese music instrument.]
When I found out about my brain tumor in 1990 - 6 years after I had known the so-called 'priest in a wheelchair', I was so grateful for God to have prepared me beforehand. Especially the time when I was in a wheelchair going through physical therapy, speech therapy, and occupational therapy (Fr. Bob's office is inside of the occupational therapy department of the General VA Hospital in Taipei.) Then more illnesses struck, just like his losing a leg after a car accident...
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