Tuesday, 27 June 2006

• My family and I immigrated to the states exactly 30 years ago yesterday.  No, we didn't come on a boat nor did we go through Ellis Island.  But I do remember sitting in a plane surrounded by people who were speaking a language I couldn't understand and wondering where we were going.  I also remember looking at a map of Korea and asking my parents where America was.  Haha... little did I realize that the U.S. was like 100 times bigger than Korea.  And when my uncle came to the airport to pick us up and I saw him driving a car, in my naivete I thought, "Oh, my uncle is a taxi driver in America!" 

  I sometimes wonder what would have happened had my parents decided not to take the risk and remain in Korea instead.  Would I have gone to college?  Would I have been as shy and taciturn as I was while growing up?  Would I have met Jesus and become Christian, as most of my relatives in Korea are not?  My mother even used to go to Buddhist temples to pray.  I don't believe in coincidences; I believe that it was in God's sovereign plan and wisdom that my family came to the states so that we may know Him and be saved.

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