Faith & Life
This helps believers who hope to become the fragrance of Christ live a right life of faith.
A Small Change, a Great Blessing
People say that the darkest hour of the day is right before sunrise. My life before meeting God was like that. While I was experiencing many things after having a baby, my self-esteem took a hit, and I felt depressed…
Han Dal-lim from Jeju, South Korea
A Teacher Who Opened the Heart of Henry Ford
Henry Ford (1863–1947) is the founder of Ford a global car manufacturer. He became a billionaire, but he began to suffer from many requests for donation. One day, he received a letter from a teacher of a small school in…
Home & Mother
On a day off, which I don’t usually have, I was busy doing all the house chores that had piled up and didn’t even notice my phone was ringing. I checked my phone later and found there was a missed…
Kim Hyang-sun from Uijeongbu, South Korea
To Reach the Essence
There was a young man whose dream was to become an artist since he was young. He left his hometown and went to a famous artist, begging him to teach him how to paint and expressing how he was willing…
With Parent’s Heart and Soldier’s Spirit
I was born in a poor farmer’s family as the youngest of eight children. Since my childhood, I was always worried about what to do to live without hunger. After much consideration, I decided to be a career soldier. I…
Park In-seob from Paju, South Korea
Sleeping Under a Dead Tree
This is a story about what happened when Professor Jared Diamond, a renowned American scholar, was staying in New Guinea when he was young. One day, he went into the deep forest with some natives, and stayed there for the…
Beautiful Preparations
When the winter is coming, animals bustle around to make preparations for the cold. Some store food in many places, or some eat a large portion and save it inside their bodies, and some prepare a place for hibernation. Then,…
Love Is Love When Expressed
Love takes the most important part of our life. It is not too much to say that love is the essence of life. However, love cannot be seen, smelled, or touched. Therefore, you cannot physically take your love out of…
Following Father’s Path
I am a newly appointed missionary to India; it’s been just three months since I came here. I thought I had many experiences in overseas missions, but since I came to India, I’ve often thought I am like a child…
Lee Se-min from Pune, MH, India
The Reason Why Food Tastes Better
In which of the following situations does food taste the best? ① When the customer and the cook cannot see each other ② When the customer can see the cook, but the cook cannot see the customer ③ When the…
I Am a Bad Daughter
When I was in elementary school, my father died, and my mom raised her son and three daughters alone. My mom used to go to Jagalchi Market early in the morning and buy a box of fish to sell it…
Choi Yeong-jin from Seoul, South Korea
Surpassing Survival Instinct
In the wild, various types of animals have fierce fights for survival according to the law of the jungle. Since ecosystem is maintained through the food chain, there is always a chance for herbivores to become food of the predators.…
Ecological Succession of the Forest
Climax community refers to a forest where the forest ecosystem sustains stability for a long time according to the climate, achieving harmony among trees, grass, birds, and insects. For a forest to turn into a climax community with high preservation…
Hearing
The shape of an ear begins to appear three weeks after conception, and the cochlea, which delivers sound to the inner ear, develops around week 16. The auditory nerves which connect the cochlea to the brain are completed by week…
Secret to Harvesting Good Fruit
I once watched the news that farmers were facing a serious labor shortage due to COVID-19. Since there are many farming areas in Sangju, the labor shortage is inescapable here, too. Hearing that an elderly couple, who had been growing…
Jin Sun-gyeong from Sangju, South Korea
Reply from a Great Man of Letters
French writer Romain Rolland (1866–1944) fell into deep anguish due to the uncertainty of the future and literary conflicts. Although he wanted to ask for advice, he didn’t have anyone he found suitable to ask. After much thought, he decided…
Enjoy Inconvenient Happiness!
There are many inventions around us that make our life convenient and enriching. If we use a finger without going shopping, we can get the items we want. We can communicate online without seeing each other face-to-face. But the convenient…
Without Losing a Single Soul
About a month after I moved to Syracuse, I needed to go to a hair salon, and so I looked for a Korean hair salon in my neighborhood on the Internet. Happily, there was one that opened a year before,…
Kim Hye-yeon from New Windsor, NY, U.S.
How to Calculate Love
“I know you’re having a hard time at work. Here is some money for you to treat yourself with something you want to eat. And don’t get sick.” The son who just saw off his mom found an envelope on…
Lost Memories
When I was a kid, I liked animated TV shows a lot. Whenever I came home after school, I was always excited to watch them, and whenever they ended, I felt so sad. I tried to figure out how to…
Hong Sun-tae from Gangneung, South Korea