2013년 1월 24일 목요일

Life that never ends




In the morning, I read an article that really touched me.

An Australian woman delivered twins after 27 weeks. The daughter was born relatively healthy, but the son weighing 2.2lbs, was having difficulty in breathing.

Though the medical team quickly gave first aid, but the child lost its breath and died.

However, the mother and the father didn't give up and asked the doctor for a last chance.

She embraced her child and while touching the child’s cheek with hers, the mother breastfed. Two hours passed and something unbelievable happened.

The child, who was supposed to be dead, started moving its fingers.

Something happened that we can just express it as a miracle. When my son slightly held on my finger, at an instinct I knew that our relationship didn't end.”

The child’s breathe became normal and eventually became healthy. He is growing up healthily like normal children.

Mother’s burning love that revived a heart is truly amazing.

I give thanks to God the Mother who never gives up on us, running towards the way of death. 

2013년 1월 23일 수요일

Life exchanged with love

The name 'Mother' is most beautiful.




Nowadays, it is very difficult to hear good news through various press media. After a long while, I happen to hear a touching news.

It was a story about a Patuawa-Tuilave, a prominent Maori lawyer in New Zealand. 

After being pregnant, she was diagnosed with cancer. 

The doctor told her that she needed treatment to survive, in order to do so;she needed to give up the baby. 

Patuawa-Tuilave refused to get a treatment. 

She endured the painful ten months, as the cancer cells spread out to her whole body, and ultimately delivered her son on April. 

After two months of her delivery, she died with cancer. 

Her stepmother Jacqui said, “The two months that my daughter spent with her daughter was the most valuable and happiest moment.”



Patuawa-Tuilave gave up her life to save her child.



Not only Patuawa-Tuilave, but when all 'mothers' are in the crisis of choosing one person, the child or her own, mothers always make a resolution that her child must be the one to live. 



Meaning, for the child, the mother will readily give up her own life. 

Who would love something that they would devotedly give up their life?



I respect the name ‘mother,’ the name of the greatest love. 

And to our Heavenly Mother…



I beg for Your forgiveness and give thanks to You.



Thank You Mother.

Bitter coffee and sweet milk




A few days ago, I went to the library in my university.  I was a little sleepy so I wanted to take a rest for a while in a resting area.  When I got a cup of coffee from a vending machine and tried to sip it, I was so surprised it was too bitter.  It was not even black coffee. Normally, I love to drink milk coffee, for I like the sweet taste but on that particular day, the coffee was too bitter to finish.

I doubt if there’s something wrong with the vending machine so I was about to throw it away and at that moment, I could notice the ‘Milk’ button.  Then I remember the time when I took some milk with curiosity and regret getting it, because it was too much sweet.    So, I took some coffee immediately and started to mix with milk, holding both of them in two hands.  It looked like a science experiment or something.  When I thought it was mixed quite moderately.  I tasted it and found that it was just beautifully harmonized with bitter coffee and sweet milk.

And then I thought of the spiritual life in the truth.  I could realize that just like bitter coffee and sweet milk, even in the truth, many brothers and sisters are allowed around because we cannot complete the gospel work alone, even though everyone has his/her own individuality. If we try to do something ourselves, then we would definitely become useless existences who give bitter taste only to someone, just like bitter coffee.

However, if we are in harmony in God,even though we are too different with each personality, then I believe amazing miraculous work of God should be made, which one cannot do alone.  This must be what God really wants for us.

Coffee smells and tastes good when it is rotten.  In the same way, I pray we also could become shining jewelries of Heavenly Mother with beautiful harmony and unity.  Also, I would like to be the children of God who inscribe the fact deep in my heart that all those miracles were possible by the noble sacrifice of Heavenly Mother who gathered every one of us into Zion and changed and united us with Her love.

2013년 1월 18일 금요일

Even giving a share of her liver


Even giving a share of her liver

Trying to see the weather forecast, I turned on the TV.
Changing channels, I stopped; something caught my eyes.
The child seemed to be like a two year old and looked very sick.
The child was suffering genetic metabolic disorder.
As a result, the child had developmental disorder, since the he couldn't digest specific nutrients, and couldn't walk but crawl.
The child had to receive a liver transplant to be cured.
Holding her child, the mother just shed endless tears.
The mother decided to give her liver to her child.
The mother and the child were hospitalized together.
The child cried because of pain and fear.
Though the mother had to go through many examinations, she cried feeling sorry for her child instead of her pain.
The mother gave her child one third of her liver.
Right after the child woke up from anesthetic, he was looking for his mother.

Mother is a person that can only be described with limited words, that is, ‘love.’ She really has something that is so great.
It reminded me about Heavenly Mother who is always sorry thinking that is insufficient, even though She gives out all of Her flesh and blood.
My God the Mother, who is still praying for me...
I give thanks again and again...

2013년 1월 16일 수요일

Mom's message


Mom’s message

Why isn't she coming home yet? It’s so late!”

Repeating her words,she was in a dither.

It was all because of my younger sister who still hasn't come home in this late night.

She waits for her call and after a while, she finally grabs her cellphone.

My mom didn't really call her children unless it was something special.

But it was an exception for me and my sister.
It was even more of an exception, when I used to live apart from my family.

I received mom’s text messages every single day.

Though I had my cellphone like my alter ego, I couldn't really reply her messages all the time.

I just felt bad so I couldn't possibly delete her messages, so they just piled up.

Her messages were short and concise, and didn't contain any fancy modifiers or emoticons.However, out of others, they were the friendliest messages, and messages that I could really feel the warmth.

I love you darling.’

Cheer up pumpkin.’

Don’t hang around late at night and go home early.’

Are you eating well enough?’

Though I scrolled down and down the messages that I have received, the only difference was the date and time. They were nothing special, but just messages worrying about me.

It could be consider as ‘no big deal, they are just messages,’ but sending those messages, she would have been all anxious, pressing the buttons one by one, trying to send her true heart.

Like the palm of my hand, I can visualize about her thinking about her child all day long, and finally grabbing her cellphone since she couldn't possibly stand still.

In contrary, I am just busy thinking about myself.

However, in a mother’s mind, there is nothing about herself, but full of thoughts for her children.

What’s the use of me talking about Heavenly Mother’s love who gave up Herself for me, the one who was blinded by greed and arrogance?

I cannot repay even with my whole life, or even mimic Heavenly Mother’s love and concern. Receiving Her love and concern, I am the most happiest person in this world.

2012년 11월 15일 목요일

2012년 10월 9일 화요일

Mother's love-1

Through tihs story, I felt Mother's love. So, I want to share this.

Waiting as a Grown-up

When I was a fourth grader in elementary school, I asked my parents to buy me a bicycle.
In those days, my family had financial difficulties, so my parents said they would buy me one when they got 
money. But being immature, I pestered my parents.
One day, while I was on my way to my friends house, I saw a perfectly good bicycle standing without a lock.
“You can have that.”
From my friend’s advice, I joyfully got on the bike.
One day, a man came up to me and asked, “Where did you get this bike?”
The bicycle that I was riding turned out to be the bicycle of the man’s son.
I happened to go to the police station with the man, and my parents came.
Luckily, being a young child, I was forgiven. However I was so scared being at the police station and 
embarrassed being the center of peoples attention.
Getting out of the police station, my parents took me somewhere.
It was a bicycle shop. My parents bought me a secondhand bicycle.
Although I was young, I knew well that my family had financial difficulties. 
Nevertheless, they bought me a bicycle. I felt sorry but I was also happy.
I just cant forget what my mother said.
Im sorry that I couldnt buy you the things that you wanted.
I remember. Although I was the one who made a mistake, I could be forgiven because of my parents’ 
apology.
Being a son all grown, I think to myself.
Because of my parents love and sacrifice I could grow up as an upright person.
I realize that Mother sacrifices, bowing down on Her knees and praying until Her cartilage worn out, because 
of my sin.
Although She came to this earth because of Her childrens sins, shedding tears She prays, saying that 
everything happened because of Her insufficient love.
From heaven to this earth, She always wants to give love to Her children.
One day, I watched a video called ‘A Day of Mother.’
On screen, Mother only lives Herself for our lives.
Now I know why Mother had to live a life of sufferings, and why She didn’t have any time for Her own life.
In the old days, if I couldn’t have something that I wanted, I couldn’t bear. However, I am different now.
I know when Mother sits on the glorious throne, She will grant my wish. I can wait as much as I can.
I truly thank for Mother’s love and grace and for giving this sinner Her boundless love.