- Although he was someone everyone criticized, at the same time he was the son of a mother who held his hand and cried until the end.
In the mother's cries, 'Even if the whole world criticizes you, you are my child.
It contained the unspoken words, 'I will not abandon you!'

- As the weather gets colder, our luggage naturally increases.
'Clothes' are like that.
The more you wear it, the thicker it gets, and the heavier it gets.
But no one considers these to be 'burdens'.
That's because they protect me from the cold.
It's definitely heavy, but rather than ignoring it, I try to wear it more.
Isn't this what Jesus meant when he said, "My yoke is light, my burden is light"? The commandment to "love" is like that.
At first glance, it may seem like a heavy burden, but the commandment to “love” is the power that protects me from this world full of evil and suffering and from my still-present sinfulness, and it is the power that brings me victory from this world that forces countless false commandments.
So it is clear that it is not a burden, but the essence that gives us rest and life.
And I will try to love even though it hurts and is heavy, because I believe that is what keeps me alive.

- I misunderstood for a while.
The word 'love', which seems to embrace something, and the word 'justice', which seems to exclude something, seemed to be contradictory.
But in reality, love and justice are like two sides of a coin that exist together.
Only justice based on love is true justice, and only when justice is realized is the authenticity of love guaranteed.

- Just as there is an indescribable mystery in the union of a man and a woman, the 'connection' between humans is truly a mystery.
It is not something that can be achieved by human effort.
Of course, you can experience it temporarily through the mysterious tool called hormones, but it is just a connection that will soon disappear.
The mystery that leads us to Adam and Eve before they ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is expressed only through ‘love.’

- Humans clearly have two ears.
Isn't this the Creator's intention to tell us not only to listen to our own voices, but also to those of our neighbors? It seems to be his intention to at least listen with one ear and not let his story, which should be connected to mine, go out the other.
Paul Tillich said:
“The first duty of love is to listen.”

- I heard that somewhere.
“Atheists are those who refuse to see the image of God in others.” If so, Christians can be said to be those who somehow try to see the image of God remaining in their neighbors.
People are beautiful when you keep looking at them like that.
And only when you see it that way will you want to love it.
Seeing someone as a living person comes before the act of loving them.

Why on earth do humans so desperately crave this mortal love, a love that can never be fully fulfilled? Christianity answers, "Because God is love."
The transcendent oneness of the three divine beings is called the 'Trinity' in theological terms, and 'love' in everyday expression.
That is the way of existence of the being called 'God'.


- Even as adults, we continue to fall.
So I keep getting hurt.
So even though we are adults, we still need mystery.
We too need someone who will run to us and hug us first, someone who will breathe on us first.
It's not that there are no hospitals, it's that there are no people.
That's human.
Albert Schweitzer's words come across poignantly.
“Even though there are so many people around us, we are dying of loneliness.”

- Love is the essence of human beings.
That love makes us fully human.
Love enables us to live in this world filled with evil and suffering.
And that love takes us to the kingdom of God.

- My father, who is approaching 7th grade, is having a bit of fun these days.
Whenever he sees our children, he tries to buy them something.
He was a miser to me, whether by choice or not, so I wonder how he can act like that.
Perhaps you want to do for your children's children what you couldn't do for them when they were growing up because you had nothing to do.

- To live a better life, you need to understand your own ‘body’.
And it takes practice to hone this.
The price of ignoring this is a life of lethargy.
Likewise, love is the minimum we need to live as human beings.
And every human being is born with the potential to love.
But as is always the case with potential, if you don't work hard to develop it, it will remain buried until the very end.
I hope it will be developed and become ours.
That love wants to save us in this time of emotional pandemic.

---From the text