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The hillside of Kumho-dong was
my hiding and resting place. There I could
see the Han River flow quietly. Many years
had passedwhile I was living a hard life with
a sick body and wounded heart and my family
was totally destroyed.
One day, my seventy-year-old mother unepectedly
visited me. She looked vacantly at me lying
in my sickbed, and then she suddenly started
to weep bitterly beating the floor with her
fists.
"You should die, die! Death is a real
fifial duty for you."
Mother's wailing hurt me and tore my heart
into pieces taking away my last hope for
life. Strange but when I mad up my mind
to die, wiping away the tears flowing down
my face, the eager desire to live suddenly
welled up in my heart.
A famous herb doctor even said that it was
a miracle that I was still alive! My body
was like a department store with all kinds
of disease.
But I started to struggle to live.
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| To live, I'd drink even
the liquid of feces! |
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Modern medical science was
not able to heal me, so I used all sorts of
folk remedies. I ate whatever was said to
be good for my health. I even changed my name
and invited a sorceress to perform an exorcism.
But to make things worse, I got the rheumatic
arthritis and I had to hide myself.
In this terrible situation, I heard that the
liquid of feces was good for recovering my
health.
Although its stench was unbearable, I drank
it earnestly. But it was all in vain and my
condition got so worse that others had to
help me urinate and defecate.
I didn't know about God's providence and tried
many things in human way, only to see no hopeful
result for the future.
My wife frequently ran away from home and
my beloved mother wished I would die.
Nobody can imagine how sorrowful and painful
it was!
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| Oh! How can this be
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One day in April of 1974 when
I had wandered in the valley of death for
seven years, my second elder sister who lived
in the countryside came and asked me to guide
her to a place called Hyun-Shin-Ae's Altar.
I could'nt say no to her and I went there
by holding my sister's arms and using my stick.
When I got to the place, I was so surprised.
There were so many people praying loudly.
They looked out of their minds to me. I thought
I had to get out of that place before I also
became crazy. But I was even more surprised
to see my sister, who was a quiet person by
nature, lifted up an dshook her hands while
praying.
As people kept coming in and my sister didn't
seem to care about me while she was praying,
I didn't know what to do. So I just knelt
down and closed my eyes as othres did.
At the very moment, my body suddenly became
hot and it oozed sweat.
Since that day, miraculous things began to
happen.
I hadn't been able to hear any sound because
my eardrums were split. But I could hear people
talk. I had eaten only a few spoonfuls of
rice before. but I had a sudden urge to eat
food and could eat up at once a bowl of steamed
rice with some meat. The pus in my ears and
the joints and the lumps were gone. The skin
disease disappeared!
"How can this happen? How could these
miracles happen overnight?"
Being unable
to tell whether it was a dream or reality,
my wife and I wept for joy as we saw
that seven years of pain were past away.
Recalling what had happened the day
before at Hyun-Shin-Ae's Altar, I knelt
down before God and prayed to him.
"Oh, God! Thank you! You are really
alive! You healed all my diseases!"
I give thanks infintely to God who healed
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