Why should I be thankful?

In my recent trip to Korea Joshua Tice and I visited pastor Son Yangwon's memorial museum at Yeosu, South Korea, which is located at the southern tip of Korea.

Pastor Son was a short man. His real life size piture is shown in between me and Joshua.

During the Rebellion in Yeosu and Sunchun just before the Korean war, two high school sons of Pastor Yangwon Son were shot to death by their communist friend. At the funeral service, the tearful pastor gave thanks for two things: first, that their going to heaven was better than going to America where he wanted to send them to study; second, for the opportunity of glory to give his sons as offerings of martyrdom. If we look for things to give thanks for in our lives, we can find a lot, and if we look for things to complain about, we can also see a great number of things.

He later forgave the killer and adopted him as his son.

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