I Am Also Committing Myself to Practicing a Love That Makes Everything Visible to My Three Children “Then Jesus answered and said to them, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but only what He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, the Son also does in like manner. For the Father loves the Son and shows Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, so that you may marvel. For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom He wishes’” (John 5:19–21). (1) I do not want to meditate on the entire passage of John 5:19–29, whose subject is “The Authority of the Son” (as titled in the New Korean Revised Version), all at once. Instead, I would like to divide it into several parts. Today, I want to meditate only on the first section, verses 19–21. When I read ...
A jealous eye “And from that time on Saul kept a jealous eye on David” (1 Samuel 18:9). When I think about “jealousy”, I remember the Korean drama “Jealousy” that was broadcast on MBC in June-July 1992. The drama includes actor Soo Jong Choi and actress Jin Sil Choi and it was about young people's fresh and heartfelt love stories. It is said to have been recognized as the epitome of the melodrama that the era demands by containing the pain, waiting, and beauty to realize mature love (Internet). I still remember dimly a part of the lyrics of the drama's title song “Jealousy”: ‘Who are you looking at even though I'm standing here right here … I don't want much. I just you’re your eyes of love. Even if I try to convey my heart, your eyes are saying diff...