Title: Someone Who Can Be Loved
someone who knows how to be loved.
Philippians 4:8-9.
God has a will for us. It is to live happily ever after. In the words, "Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for us in Christ Jesus." can read.
Our wish is to live happily. People do their best to live a happy life. Of course, there are many people who are not happy even if they are lazy and do not make the effort they should be making for happiness. However, there are unexpectedly many people who are not happy even among those who have achieved their dreams by doing their best to achieve happiness. The most important and universal reason is a misunderstanding of what makes us happy.
We people do not know what unexpectedly makes us happy. For this reason, many people work hard to get up early in the morning and go to bed late at night for happiness, but not many people live happily ever after.
People think money will make us happy. Those who have experienced the pain and misery of poverty are convinced that they will be happy when they come out of poverty and become rich. Poverty can make us unhappy. But wealth cannot make us happy. Here is our problem.
We were very poor. Korea was once one of the poorest countries in the world. I was born at that time. The rich were those who had refrigerators, televisions, and telephones in their homes. We carried out the Saemaul Undong to get out of that excruciating poverty. The songs of the Saemaul Undong are still not forgotten even after several decades have passed. ‘Live well, live well. Let's live well once in a while. Let’s fix the thatched house, widen the village road, and live well once in a while.’
The Saemaul Undong was successful. We have finally entered a developed country. It is said that the national income finally broke through the $20,000 mark, and the national income after taking into account purchasing power and real life exceeded $30,000. The starting salaries that Korean college students receive after graduating are not much different from those of countries such as Japan and the United States. Korea has become the dream of developing and underdeveloped countries around the world. In 50 years, Korea has become a country with a 250-fold increase in national income.
Poverty was unhappiness, but getting out of poverty was not happiness. We are slowly realizing it now. We only now know that the rich are still unhappy. The same goes for those who are successful in the world and have a career in life. Success and advancement are not bad, but success and success in life do not guarantee happiness. For the sake of success and advancement, I put my present happiness on hold and struggled and tried to die, and when I finally succeeded, I found that I was not as happy as I thought I would.
I don't know if it's my bias, but most of the worldly successful and successful people were not happy. No, most people didn't know how to be happy. There were too many people who had little to do with happiness. Nevertheless, people are obsessed with earning money and becoming successful and successful. I don't agree with making money, success and advancement unconditionally downplaying and sinful. Because, as far as I know, that's not the biblical way of thinking. But I don't agree with living mindlessly and thinking that making money, being successful and being successful is everything in life.
I want to be happy. I want to live happily. When will people be happy? When was the happiest time in your life so far? It's not that difficult if you think about it. People are not happy when they have a lot of money. It's nice to live in a nice house and a nice car, but that doesn't mean you're happy. People are happy when they are loved. People are happy when they love and receive love from their loved ones. I think happiness is only then.
When I tried to marry my wife, there was strong opposition from both families. It was so dark that it seemed almost impossible to get through it and get married. Because of that, the hellish days continued. I didn't give up though. In the end, when we got married with the permission of both families, I unknowingly started writing a poem. The title was 'Love'.
Because of you, the tomorrow I dreamed of melts into today, today and tomorrow are one day for me.
Because of you, the tomorrow I dreamed of melts into today, and I live a day of God where a thousand years is like a day and a day is like a thousand years.
dream life. Life is a dream.
So even this day I dream of you.
I was very happy when I wrote a letter to my wife. While writing a letter, I ended up writing a poem entitled ‘Letter’.
Wash your hands thoroughly, sit down, and write each letter carefully.
A letter to a loved one I want the truth, I want to be beautiful
Written and crumpled, Written and crumpled
As I finish a letter written with my heart, stop writing one wrong letter
I just want to erase two lines and keep using it
Wash your hands again and write a letter from the beginning A letter to you.
My husband and I are now over 60. I want to become a husband who is loved by his wife until the day I die. Because if I lose it, even if I gain anything in the world, I will not be happy.
Thankfully, I am still in good health. I have diabetes for a long time, and since I was born, only half of one kidney was developed, so the doctor who always takes care of me is very worried about it. One of the most important things for me to stay healthy is to walk hard and exercise. As I get older and I can no longer walk like I do now, it will probably be difficult for me to stay healthy.
I hope it doesn't happen, but I imagine a time when I lose my health and can't live and work on my own strength and will. Now that I am financially stable, I can be of strength to my children, but one day I will lose that as well. Just imagine what it would be like to be an old man who, from a worldly point of view, was shabby and helpless.
Will my children still love me? I often wonder, can I respect you? I want to be loved and respected by my children and grandchildren at that time. Just as people are happy when they are healthy and strong, but when they lose it, they die or become unhappy.
Through today's text, God tells us to be worthy of love and commendable in whatever we do. You don't know how important it is to be loved and praised to the end. My wish is to become such a person.
Being rich is not commended. Being successful in the world does not mean being loved. Rather, there are many people in the world who give up praise and love and become successful and successful in return. There are too many people in the world who have succeeded, but have been reviled and made a career out of it, but are not loved and are lonely. I don't want to live like that.
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