"Perfect actions in this world leave no body behind."

Today is my "End-Dependence" Day July 4th 2008

Korean See-Saw

Explanation: See-saw jumping and swinging are the two sports most favored among the women of Korea.

Credit: Susan

It Begins In Light

(There is a saying here in Korea which is pretty sweet. Translated it says that the Korean men down in the south are most handsome and the Korean girls up north are very pretty. In Korean it's very short and sounds like "Nam-nam buk-yoh. So here is a light for a beautiful marriage between South and North Korea.)

English Lessons

from the days when

Meaning was Conveyed Gracefully

November 30
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise Him for the help of His countenance.--PS. xlii. 5.

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed.--2 COR. iv. 8.

Oh, my soul, why art thou vexed?
Let things go e'en as they will;
Though to thee they seem perplexed,
Yet His order they fulfil.

A. H. FRANCKE.

The vexation, restlessness, and impatience which small trials cause, arise wholly from our ignorance and want of self-control. We may be thwarted and troubled, it is true, but these things put us into a condition for exercising patience and meek submission, and the self-abnegation wherein alone the fulness of God is to be found.

DE RENTY.

Every day deny yourself some satisfaction;--bearing all the inconveniences of life (for the love of God), cold, hunger, restless nights, ill health, unwelcome news, the faults of servants, contempt, ingratitude of friends, malice of enemies, calumnies, our own failings, lowness of spirits, the struggle in overcoming our corruptions;--bearing all these with patience and resignation to the will of God. Do all this as unto God, with the greatest privacy.

THOMAS WILSON.