Mary Novoselski, a retired government employee, said that at one point in her life, she lost faith, and then came back to it. This is how she knows that faith “centers you. You can’t be human without it.”

Decades ago, while navigating a rough patch in her life, Novoselski started studying religions, mostly biblical, and solidified her faith in a divine Creator and her understanding that there is more than this single earthly life. In her six years of retirement, she says she has been doing a lot of reading and listening to podcasts.

After Novoselski read the article “How Humankind Came To Be” by Falun Gong founder Mr. Li Hongzhi, it was like a lightbulb turned on. She thought “this is basically going on in the world. This fits perfectly now.”

“It explains basically how everyone got where they got. This is why we’re in the position we’re in now,” she said. “He explains everything, why things are happening, and then at the very end it gives you the glimmer of hope, there is something better on the other side. This just isn’t it.”

“There’s going to be a lot of upheaval, there’s going to be problems. There’s going to be trials, there’s going to be tribulations. But there’s always something good. Always good trumps evil. It just might take time. I might not see it in my lifetime, but I just pray for the kids for the future. You can’t just look at your immediate self here,” she said. “You’ve got to look at what’s happening a hundred years down the road from now. The destruction and everything that’s been going on, it’s a cumulative thing. It didn’t just happen overnight.”

“I really feel the article itself is very uplifting,” Novoselski said.