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    Dance with Broken Language: Poems for Spiritual Seeker
    Dance with Broken Language: Poems for Spiritual Seeker
    Dance with Broken Language: Poems for Spiritual Seeker
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    Dance with Broken Language: Poems for Spiritual Seeker

    By Young Jun Kim

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    Young Jun Kim tries to reflect his portrait in the poems about God, man, stranger, nature, and spiritual journey.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateApr 11, 2011
    ISBN9781426963247
    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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      Book preview

      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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