Faith & Life

How to Negotiate for a Good Relationship

“Almost everything is negotiable.” This is a quote from Herb Cohen, an American negotiation expert. When it comes to a negotiation, most people would imagine an intense and close match for important issues such as an international negotiation and a…

Heavenly Family I Met in the Town of Hope

Mexico, where most of its land is mountainous, is dense with many villages along steep hills even in the middle of the mountains. Since its state religion is Catholicism, the majority of people believe it, and people never forget to…

Lee Su-bin from Puebla, Mexico

Between Patience and Excess

Good health is very important for a happy life. And exercise is essential for good health. However, too much exercise may hurt the body and the mind just like the case of athletes who were forced to retire in their…

Versatile Mom

“Mom, I will grow to be a mom.” “Why?” “You can hold toilet rolls with one hand and hold my hand with the other hand.” I don’t remember, but my mom told me that I said that when I was…

Lee Jeong-yeon from Bucheon, South Korea

The Power That Woke My Wife Up

Overnight, my beloved wife got in a vegetative state. She was assaulted by a passerby for no reason, and as she fell, she hit her head against the floor. When I rushed into the emergency room. the doctor said she…

Honeybees’ Overwintering

Honeybees are poikilotherms, so they are sensitive to temperature changes. If the body temperature of the bee falls below 10℃ (50℉), paralysis of the bees’ muscles can begin to take place. At a body temperature of 7.2℃ (45℉) the bees…

Between Easy and Right

The earliest British currency was mainly gold or silver coins. Gold and silver were valued in themselves, so when they were made into coins, they were well accepted. However, coins with impurities appeared over time. Even low-purity coins remained unchanged…

Speaking Each Word With Love

I was eagerly looking forward to doing volunteer services with senior students of ASEZ, the World Mission Society Church of God University Student Volunteer Group, before entering university; I had only come across their activities through videos and news articles…

Cheon Sae-eum from Donghae, South Korea

A Man with a Vivid Dream

In 1966, world-famous filmmaker Walt Disney passed away. Five years later, Disney World, which Disney was so looking forward to, opened in Florida, U.S., the largest amusement park in the world. It was four times the size of Disneyland opened…

Keep My Family Healthy!

“To the well man, every day is a feast” (Turkey), “A good wife and health are a man’s best wealth” (U.K.), “We realize the importance of health and youth after losing them” (Arab), “Anybody who thinks money is everything has…

Attitude toward Problems

“On a day of heavy rain, you see three people at the bus stop as you drive. One is an old man fighting for life, another is a doctor who saved your life in the past, and the other is…

A Second Chance

I still vividly remember the day I set my foot on the land of India for the first time with my parents when I was in the middle school. I was excited to fly in the plane for the first…

Lee Jun-geon from Chennai, TN, India

A Gold Medal for Doing the Best

Steven Bradbury entered men’s 1,000-meter short track speed skating at the Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympics. He barely passed the qualifier, repeating the same mistake of moving before the starting signal. In the quarter-finals, where only two out of…

Birthday Cake

When I was young, my family suffered financial difficulties. To make a living for seven children, my mother used to do hard work such as repairing walls, floors, and toilets. Since she could not afford to hire an employee, she…

Suzana Machado Botton from Porto Alegre, Brazil

A Flowering Desert

The Atacama Desert located in the north-west of Chile is the driest and the most barren region in the world. It is also well-known for its rough and rugged environment that resembles that of Mars—stony terrain, high sand hills, salt…

Faith Comes from Hearing the Message

“Do you attend church these days?” “Are you a minister?” This is what my acquaintances often tell me these days. When I hear them say that, I feel relieved, thinking, ‘I’m on the right track,’ because it means that my…

Han Chan-hyeon from Busan, South Korea

I Don’t Deserve Them

While a teacher was spending the latter years of his life in writing, his pupils visited him to pay their respect for the New Year. His whole family gathered in the house: his sons, daughters, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, and grandchildren, who…

Fine Wine and Oak Barrel

“How long do you think it will take to produce ten-year-old wine?” At this question, you are likely to answer, “Ten years.” Actually, however, it is not too much to say that it takes more than a hundred years. Freshly…

About What We See and Hear

A mother happened to see her child imitating a mourner. Being shocked, the mother moved from near a graveyard to a house next to a market. Then, her child started imitating a merchant. So the mother packed up their stuff…

Clothed with the Holy Spirit of the Feast of Tabernacles

A few years ago, I invited a boss of a publishing company whom my wife came to know because of her work, to the “Our Mother” Photo and Writing Exhibition. Telling us that he’d been aware about the Church of…

Lee Jeong-hyeon from Incheon, South Korea