The seat of Purity

If you have strong toe-nails of tiger that can attack someone,

then I have careful ears of rabbit that can listen to others.

If you have long legs of giraffe that can treat the higher places,

then I have short legs of sheep that can tread the lower places.

If you have fierce voice of lion that can daunt others,

then I have sweet voice of dove that can console others.

If you have glowing eyes of eagle that can find out feed everywhere,

then I have moderate eyes of deer that can make others intimate with each other.

If you have wise brain of fox that can compromise with others,

then I have obstinate heart of ox that will go straightforwardly.

We all are different,

but we equally share one thing,

That is tears.

If you may shed tears because your pet starves one meal in a day,

then you will shed tears for other starving people.

If you may shed tears because your child is sick,

then you will shed tears for other suffering children.

If you may shed tears because your sister is infringed on sexual privacy,

then you will shed tears for sexually exploited women.

If you may shed tears because your brother is exploited like slaves,

then you will shed tears for other exploited people.

You and I own the most precious thing than any other things in the world,

That is tears,

The tears for the starving, the suffering, the exploited!

Their pains deprive them of even tears.

But,

We have tears for them

which make you and I the one.

We have tears for them!

Pressing all my heart,

Converging my lumps of fire,

I was waiting for you.

Expecting the moment

when your vague trace was shown,

I was towering up,

As doing my best for the sake of my death.

The head was lightly toward the high sky.

The tail was separating the suppressive air

with all terrible speed as much as the darkness was scared.

As soon as I saw your foggy smile,

The flames in me burst up.

The delight in my heart echoed around.

However,

The suspension of the moment was not long,

My exhaustion, just like your vagueness

came down,

and scattered a number of small lights.

The sound of cheers being heard far away,

though I was falling down

without a sound, without a speech and without a strength.

People yelled out a cheer

toward the small lights.

The small lights

to be thrown again for you some day.

The Bed

As my head is leaning on it

and then my body is laid,

The hurted heart is asking a question

God!

why…?

Why in the world…?

As the ears contacting with it

is burying the internal voice more deeply in it,

they are attracted into the time of the rest.

The cotton-like plain

is covering up my eyes, and my ears,

and finally it is covering up my pains.

And it is interring my sound and my tears,

In the end it is interring the powerless flesh,

Just like God

who is going away without saying,

just as lending his breast to me furtively.

Until the weakpoint becomes glory

Have you ever heard of Dr. Kang Young Woo. He is the first doctor with visual impairment. He is known in the United States, and also known in Korea because of documentary containing his life, Moreover he is more famous in Korean Christianity. That is why he is the first man to gain a doctorate in the United States as a visually impaired person, and his dramatic life is a great lesson for many people.

Dr. Kang Yeong-woo was brought up by his widowed mother. When he was in junior high school, his eyes were injured by a soccer ball by accident. After the treatment for two years and two major operations had failed, he eventually became blind. To make matters worse, even his mother, who had a great expectation for her son, died in the shock of her son becoming blind. But that was not the end either. he barely lived with the help of his older sister working at the factory, but his older sister died because of overwork. The rest of his siblings were scattered and adopted. No one would be capable of this unimaginable disaster. At first, Dr. Kang Young-woo thought that this was a godly disaster. But he did not lose faith in the end. In 1968, he entered the department of education in Yonsei University after excruciating effort and graduated with a proxime accessit from the College of Liberal Arts in Yonsei University. Has God's good fortune ever started since then? After that, he met a beautiful spouse who could be said to be the best luck in his lifetime. The lady was a female college student who cared for the handicapped by volunteer work. Furthermore he went to America with her and entered the University of Pittsburgh and got a Master of Education, a Master of Psychology, and a Ph.D. in Education.

He then became the deputy minister for the White House and later he confessed that he could not have reached such a high position if his eyes were perfect and he could not have done such a great work to create an important legal system for the disabled in America and in the world if his eyes were perfect. His weakness changed his life and caused God's power to work. The Bible says that the power is made perfect in weakness. If Dr. Kang had not been blind, his two sons could not become ophthalmologist and legal counsel, and he would never have come to the Dictionary of American Educational Biography and Biographical Directory of the world's leading expert.

Question)What is my weak point? in other words, what is my disability? Have you ever had the experience to overcome this? Tell me about that experience. If not, tell me your weakness and tell me your solution to overcome it and the purpose of life you want to achieve through it.

Their eyes, nose and mouth

were the same with mine.

Their naked bodies

were leaner than mine.

But they had similar thing that I have now.

They were dying there.

They were killed.

The eyes opened enormously,

The deformed traces of violence,

The departed arms and legs,

And the sliced heads stored in trash,

They are

Neither scariness,

Nor vainness,

Nor fearness,

They were just Nothingness.

So much arrogant beings,

and so much precious beings

were nothingness.

The things which I have felt, seen and learned

I have conceived as the whole world

And must be kept and preserved,

They were killed,

as being trampled down ruthlessly.

Over the rubbishes of bodies,

the mind that was so much arrogant

was slaughtered.

The living existences of half soul

threw out

the heap of bodies carried on their shoulder

into the time,

as if either the death or the life burdened them.

An evil's pushing in,

And a wicked voice of the vicious stubbornness

is tattering the air with its blade,

just as it slices the raw fish and takes

Its aim is

to tear down

and to defeat into the lower part.

The fragility

and the cowardice

are your favorite objects.

However,

the hurts festered by your play

are taken

become diluted

and are absorbed

by the new immune power.

The another cheerfulness finally springs up.

I will swallow you up,

I will tread you down,

I will penetrate you,

After all,

I will stand up

wherever, whatever, whenever.

Rather than

I am melded down by pulpiness with taffy

and I become a feast for a moment as being imprisoned in the securing house under the warm sun,

You,

who should finally be killed in me,

forgotten in me,

are only my object.

Modern people in the 21st century are accustomed to the term relationship. I agree with the relationship, but the word, friendship is a bit unfamiliar to me. It means that the word, friendship has already become an old language. It has become an age when relations are needed more than friendship. We are creating a network with SNS. We want to get a lot of people's empathy by writing our daily lives with this network, and feel presence and satisfaction that I am there. However, this relationship seems sympathetic and you can feel presence, but it seems to be missing. That is 'emotion'. So it seems that true relationships are stronger in analog rather than digital methods. How can we get friends from a network of irrelevant Internet connections? The friendship we can get from sacrificing myself have to be talked in this age again.

Jesus says, "If a man forsakes his life for a friend, there is no greater love than this." And Jesus showed us a love that does not mind the death that plunges into the fire, And he has become our friend. In Christianity, therefore, we talk about sacrifice and dedication that loses one's life. In this respect, Christianity is radical. So if our thoughts are based on this Christian sacrificial love, we can hang out with anyone in the home, workplace, and church, And eat and drink with anyone, and share the pain together. There will be discomfort, pain and trouble. Nevertheless, we can be friends.

Now, we have to talk about being a true friend of somebody, just as Jesus became our friend.

Drawing a line

steeply

powerlessly

crisply,

Pressing a dot

straightly

powerfully

pointedly,

An eraser helps you to clear off your past.

A new being

cannot stand

appropriately

over the scar of the past.

So

the eraser eradicates even the new being.

At last,

setting his blade of endurance

on the scar over a scar,

the final choice that the truth draws

reveals the darkness and lightness over the wholeness.

But

it is not perfectness.

Because

your reality

is not there.

Have you ever heard the name of Andrew Carnegie? You have already known the America's Carnegie Hall, Carnegie Foundation, and so on. Like his reputation, he had mobilized many funds to invest in the promotion of arts, education, and academic research, and had returned his wealth to society.

He was one of the greatest charitable workers of his time, originally a great man of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. Since most of the steel was imported from England at that time, the US was always at a disadvantage in price. So when Carnegie built a steel company and made the United States a steel powerhouse, so he was called, "the king of steel". However, his reputation became more known after his retirement, and he paid a lot of money to foundations and universities and worked on social projects. This is why he is respected to this day. If you have accumulated wealth only for individuals, you would not have been respected. He has long been respected for his many good influences by investing and expanding his accumulated wealth for society.

Q) The accumulation of wealth has been recognized as bad since ancient times. In reality, rich people are involved with all kinds of bad irregularities. But there are some good people who return wealth to society and do charity work. What do you think about wealth accumulation and social return?

The one thing

that can make one know that the truth is truth

and can make littleness become largeness

is no commitment.

That is,

the freedom of air without weight

that can go wherever.

The one thing

that can make one know the truth is truth

and can make littleness become largeness

is the transparency of children.

That is,

the view

that can see what it is as it is.