Faith & Life

Helping Ginger Harvest

When it was still early in the morning, I went to Zion in a hurry because we planned to go to the city of Andong and help harvest gingers. Gingers are one of the essential ingredients of kimchi and are…

Choi Yun-hee from Daegu, South Korea

Intersection with No Traffic Lights

What would happen if traffic lights, signs, lanes, and curbs between streets and sidewalks were removed from an intersection where many cars and pedestrians pass through? Actually, such a place does exist. In the center of a small city, there…

The Reason My Syngonium Revived

A few years ago, I went to a plant nursery. I didn’t think I could do a good job of raising a plant, so I asked the florist to recommend a plant that would grow well even if I didn’t…

Jeong Eun-jeong from Seoul, South Korea

Keep Your Minds Clean

Just by cleaning your house once, you can’t keep it clean forever. As dust perpetually falls, there is always something new to clean. If you always want your house to stay clean and organized, you must clean it every day.…

Mother’s Love, the Turning Point of My Life

I was born in an unreligious family in Finland. While swinging on our yard in my childhood, I used to think there would be a time for me to die. I couldn’t bear the thought at all and was hard…

Petra iida Emilia Ruokojärvi from Helsinki, Finland

Love Is Touch

In an experiment with monkeys, researchers prevented a baby monkey from being touched. As a result, the baby monkey contracted a long drawn-out illness and died young. On the other hand, in observations of 10-week to 6-month old baby monkeys,…

If Your Child Is in Adolescence

A little kid cries like it’s the end of the world when he gets separated from his mom, but then smiles again when she comes back; he also believes whatever his mom tells him even though she’d cried wolf too…

Everybody Is a Winner

A picture of an elementary school sports day went viral in Korea. In the picture, there are five boys walking on the track, holding hands together. Everybody is smiling except one boy who is shorter than the other boys; this…

Self-Handicapping

The day before the exam, you try to cram all the information, but nothing gets into your brain and you don’t feel like studying. The easiest choice you can make in this situation is to go to sleep. Then, at…

Filial Piety Is…

Recently, my right wrist hurt. I thought it would be healed soon that I had no regard for it. But the pain worsened as days went by. I was just enduring pain, wearing a wrist brace and doing hot towel…

Jang Sun-hyang from Seoul, South Korea

A Warm Price

There was a man who sold waffles in a shabby alleyway. His calculation of the prices for the waffles was a bit odd: 300 won for one and 1,000 won for three. If one waffle costs 300 won, it should…

Sansevierias Revived through Care

I saw on TV a boy who was very good at growing plants. I was watching it without thinking, but then there was something that caught my attention. It was his attitude toward plants. The boy’s love for plants was…

Yu Seung-hui from Busan, South Korea

And Then

A poor student went to see a rich old lady in the village to borrow money for school expenses. “I want to study and become a lawyer.” “Yeah? And then, what are you going to do?” “I want to earn…

I’m Happy Because I Have…

My friend’s new cell phone, a pair of shoes on display in the department store, a house in a magazine, a car in a commercial . . . People want fame, prominent positions, or other things that they don’t have,…

Until One Soul Is Led

Before I met the truth, I tried many times to have faith in God but it didn’t come to me. I thought, ‘Having a religious belief doesn’t seem my thing. Would I meet God after death?’ Frustration came along with…

Maria Cleofe Cuchillo Gutierrez from Lima, Peru

Surpassing the Limits of Our Muscles

The muscles of an athlete are not built up in a day. In order to gain physical strength and improve their skills, they constantly have to train themselves. Only when they surpass the threshold of their muscle capacity can they…

Treat Your Family to Tea!

Tea is a favorite food loved both in the East and the West. To enjoy a deep taste of tea, you have to be careful in every step from preparing the tea water to steeping it in the cup. As…

Train Yourself to Be Godly

I was a quite aggressive man. I would be frustrated quickly if something didn’t go the way I had planned, or I would throw caution to the wind and go into everything if something was unsatisfactory. Many times, my aggressiveness…

Yu Wu-seung from Seoul, South Korea

Crisis Can Be an Opportunity

In Yosemite National Park located in California, U.S., there are giant trees which are about 262 feet [80 m] high and 16 feet [5 m] in diameter. These trees are giant sequoias known as the “President Tree.” Among the giant…

Coming Close to God

When I was in my first year of middle school, I learned the Bible deeply at Zion. Actually, I started to go to church with my family when I was a child, but that was my first time to study…

Lee Pyung-hwa from Seoul, South Korea