Faith & Life

If You Can’t Stop Time, Enjoy It!

Whenever the end of the year comes, we hear people grumble, “I’m going to get another year older.” Everybody wants to live long, but doesn’t want to get old. It is not a pleasant thing to get old, because getting…

The Weft and Warp Threads

The overall image of someone or something is determined by the multiplication of all factors, not the sum of them. Even though they have earned high marks in many factors, if they get “0” points in one factor, they end…

We Get to Resemble Each Other

The Adopt Happiness Spore Project is a Gimhae City’s project to support private organizations to take care of certain places where many citizens come and go, such as roadsides, parks, and streams, and clean up those areas at least once…

Lee Jeong-hwa from Gimhae, Korea

Mother’s Happiness

On my way home, I got on the bus. The bus was crowded with students after class, office workers after work, and elderly people going home after their grocery shopping. Then I saw a kid eating toast while sitting among…

Koh Ji-hae from Namyangju, Korea

Spiritual GPS System

If you have a GPS system when you go to an unfamiliar place, you feel at ease. All you have to do is input the name of the place or the address into the GPS system. Then it guides you…

Shaking Seeds Off Sesame Plants with My Grandma

I went to my grandma’s during the harvest season. Usually I leave early for the next day’s work, but that day, I decided to help her shake seeds off sesame plants and leave later. As soon as I reached the…

Jeon Yeong-seon from Anyang, Korea

Make Your Family Fall Asleep Pleasantly

Finishing off your day, you prepare for the next day before going to bed; this time is very important because in order to wake up in a good mood in the morning, you need to fall asleep pleasantly. As it…

Exercise to Build Mind Muscles

I work as a physical therapist in the hospital. One day, I saw the old man whom I had been helping with exercise sit on a thump on the chair, putting up his entire weight. “Sir, do you know how…

Gwak Jin-yeong from Daejeon, Korea

One Act of Filial Piety

I grew up in a rich family thanks to my father who was a well-known tax accountant. Many people envied me for my capable father, but as for me, my father was the most difficult and hardest person to be…

Lee Hye-gyeong from Seoul, Korea

Stained Glasses

We did repair work on our church restroom. As we finished cutting the tiles, the restroom was filled with stone powder. I left the restroom after ventilating it. For some reason, however, stone powder was still floating around in the…

Oh Dae-yeop from Seoul, Korea

Victory Through Endurance and Unity

I watched a video entitled “Elementary Schools’ Tug-of-War That Moved the World.” It was a tug-of-war between two elementary schools in Kazakhstan. True to its title, the video was very touching. From the beginning of the tug-of-war, the blue team…

Hong Jeong-eun from Seongnam, Korea

Gigaseo(寄家書)

欲作家書說苦辛 恐敎愁殺白頭親 陰山積雪深千丈 却報今冬暖似春 When I send a letter home, I was going to mention my troubles, But I was worried that my gray-haired parents might become anxious, So although heavy snow has covered this shadowy mountain, I wrote that…

With Uncontrollable Happiness

The ultimate purpose of life is to meet God and return to the kingdom of heaven by receiving salvation through Him. To put it another way, our lives can be referred to as the process of preparing for the eternal…

Raju Purty from Kolkata, WB, India

Ornaments on the Fine Linen

Recently, I went to a wedding. The bride in a pure white dress was as beautiful as a princess in a movie. The wedding ceremony began, and the bride appeared after the entrance of the gallant groom. The ornaments on…

Kim Nam-su from Seoul, Korea

As Working for God

As the serving leadership is in the spotlight, there are increasing cases of combining the principles of business management and the teachings of the Bible. “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord”…

The Hand That Rules the World

“The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world!” William Ross Wallace, an American poet, emphasized the influence of mothers on their children, saying, “They say that man is mighty; he governs land and sea .…

The Existence of Mother

Recently, my mother signed an annuity insurance contract in my name. I was not yet in my 30s at that time, and I was not happy with it because I wouldn’t be able to receive annuity benefit payments until I…

Yun Du-nam from Mungyeong, Korea

My Privilege

My husband and I run a small restaurant in Yongin. At first, I was just an assistant for my husband who is a chef, but as time went by, I became more than an assistant. Working in the restaurant from…

Ju Yeong-mi from Yongin, Korea

Failure for Success

According to a survey conducted by the National Retail Federation in the U.S., 48% of salespersons immediately give up when they are refused after recommending their customers to buy something; 25% of them recommend twice, 15% three times before they…

Timely Words

It was when I helped organize an event for male adults in the church. As many helping hands were needed, I sent our Zion members a text message asking for help. Soon a brother sent a reply. “Thank you so…

Yeo In-won from Daejeon, Korea