Dance with Broken Language: Poems for Spiritual Seeker
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Young Jun Kim
Young Jun Kim was born in Seoul Korea in 1958, the after five years of truce in Korean War. His experience of childhood was so poor as the other Korean at those times and this experience became the author’s background colors to understand humanity. Those school days of author’s elementary, middle and high were tremendous memories, unique experience, and he was just a simple and normal student. However his experience at the Korean Army was a great opportunity to understand about reality and diversity to form his world view. Those stories may be published in a future. When he was a college student, he studied the major on architecture. But his hinge point to be a minister was from his Divine calling at his junior days. Even he knows his way to go, due to Divine calling, he studied more at a graduate school with a major urban design. When the author felt to study more in America, he came to small town of Deep South, Erskine Theological Seminary, which located in Due West of South Carolina. n this school, he learned a lot of treasured things like the relationship with professors and friends, tradition, pietism, southern culture a little and theology. At the last, the author finished his degrees with M. div, MATS, MATS, and Doctor of Ministry. Now, the author involves several vocational works; teaching as an associate professor at Georgia Christian University, ministering as a senior pastor at Atlanta Saints Presbyterian Church, a columnist of Korean South East News and Atlanta daily News, and a hospice chaplain at MeSun. Even the author feels a shame to do such a many vocational works to compare his ability, but the author often says God wants to his profit from him, due to God’s investment to him. This book is an expression of lost mind as a stranger, spiritual thirsty, and eschatological hope. When the author tries to write a poetry book, it made the author feel guilty, because he didn’t much know about language, especially English. So he would like to say himself as a folly and naïve stranger. The author wrote two Korean books, An Essayistic Spiritual Journal of a naïve Stranger (2008) and Overlook with Church (2007). People call him as a rich man, because he has four children (Lee-Lye, EeSl, Isaac, Isaiah) and his lovingly wife Mee Sook Kim. And now the author remains walking in His foot prints.
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Dance with Broken Language - Young Jun Kim
Table of Contents
Preface
A Moment of Humiliation
No Man’s Land
A Cup of Coffee
Tranquil Highway
A Present of First Snow
Under the Cultural Tolerance
Next Generation
When a Daughter Doesn’t Come Home
Trap
Sandwich
One Shoe
When I Can’t Sleep
Dance with Death
Death
Reality and Illusion
Clouds, Nobody Knows
Love Is Like a River
A Stranger Somewhere in the Deep South
River
Presence of God
Life Is Accidental
Where Is God?
I Shall Not Want
Dandelions in My Yard
Bread
Endless Crying of Waves
When an Old Song Is Repeating
Breeze
To Be or Not to Be
A Portrait
A Feather
Whispering
A Song at the Café
Memories
Tear
To Be a Stranger
Unexpected Happenings
The Yard, My Old Lover
A Shower of a Summer Day
Toward 55
To Be Like an American
Divine Time
Homesickness
Faith
Back and Forth
Cumming, Where I Live
Alone in the church
Splendid America
Critical Days
A Night I Cannot Sleep
Mosquito Coil
A Long, Long Time Ago
If I Meet Young Myself
Isaac, Inner Dynamic Guy
Into the Fire
To Be a Soulless Man
Cerements
I Saw My Friend Dressed in Cerements
Tower of Babel
An Alien
To Talk with People Who Are Passing Away
When a Person Has a Question about Death
No Hope
To Be a Father
Salvation Is Secret
When I Feel No Answer to My Prayer
Wind and Life
Journey and a Stranger
A Pebble Stone
Two Glasses Leaf
To Be a Fool
Language
Heavenly Languages
Stranger and Gypsy
Taste of Winter
Some, Yes, Some
Fathering
Theology and Me
A Battle with Money
A Samaritan Woman
The Proverbs Saying
A Coffee or a Cup of Coffee?
Doggies
My Educating Is
Catching Birds
Old Books in My Basement
Who Are Southerners?
When I Saw My Son’s Football Game
Saying Hello!
Let It Be Me
The Café Vincent
Time Is So Fast
Inerasable Memories to a Man
When I Raised My Children
A Most Pleasant Moment
A Time to Cry
After I Have Sinned
To See Is to Believe?
At the Rainy Day
Guilty Feeling
Epilogue
Preface
Writing poems makes me feel arrogant enough; writing them without the knowledge of language makes me feel guilty. But I wanted to record traces of my life to give my children, as a father, and my wife, as a husband. To send thoughts to a stranger’s mind is a kind of vocational job, I think. Some poems send an empty mind, and some poems are expressed with spiritual thirst. Some poems are sending a hidden, divine being—my Lord—and some send struggles about my immigrant ministry. And also I tried to send my emptiness as a wandering stranger who is seeking a spiritual answer from inner voices.
I hope and pray my small foot traces will offer someone a chance to see my Lord, and I want to meet some reader through my poems in the future.
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