From Pastor Se Hee…

            May is the month that we observe the Festival of the Christian Home.  On this day we celebrate our individual families and our Christian families.  In recent years great concern has been raised about the instability of family life in modern society.  This is a great concern because even as many families are becoming unstable, we need to have more strong families for the foundation of a healthy society.  The family will always be a place where new generations are born and reared, and thus the nurturing ground for the preservation of society’s values.   In fact, the family unit is so much the life-blood of society that instability in the individual family will directly result in the undermining of society’s health.   Thus a healthy family is not just a luxury, but rather it is the life and death of the whole society.  

Mothers play a very important role in the family and in our society.  Without our mothers there would be no nurturing ground for our society’s children or for the creation of stable healthy families.   Therefore, in honor of Mother’s Day I would like to pay tribute to all mothers for their great love and dedication. 

I share the following story with you:“She is my mother, said the young man, but I call her my baby.  Old people are much like babies, and we ought to love them, for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.

I have an idea that life evens up things. When I was young and helpless she took care of me; now I take care of her.  I am paying my debt. 

She never left me alone when I as an infant.  Now I do not leave her alone.  She was patient with me then; now I am patient with her.  She fed me; now I feed her.  I clothe and keep her.  She sacrificed her young life for me; and I am glad of every chance I have to sacrifice for her.  She loved me when I was ignored, awkward, needing constant care, and all because I was hers, born of her body and part of her soul.  Now every feebleness and trait of childishness in her endears her to me, for no other reason except that she is my mother.  By so much as she is a tax on my time, attention, and money, I love her.

She shall not triumph over me in the day of judgment; for my tenderness shall equal hers.  She watched me until I grew up; I shall watch with her until she steps into heaven.”

Happy Mother’s Day to all,

Pastor Se Hee Han