A Prayer Kept in the Heart 마음의 기도
A Prayer Kept in the Heart The phone rang. It was my eldest sister. Under the name of a simple greeting, longing was calling. "You've been quiet lately," she said. With a smile, I replied, "Why don't we go together to a place with beautiful mountains and clear flowing waters?" She answered, "You have faith, and yet you say such things?" I smiled again. "Isn't that what family love is?" Though she is not our mother, she has always embraced her younger siblings with the heart of an eldest sister. So I playfully asked her to buy us something delicious. After all, that is how we meet more often, how we see each other's faces, how we share our stories and know that we are still walking through life together. Family members live far away. News of growing grandchildren often arrives through photographs alone. Seeing one another face to face becomes more precious with every passing year. Conversations may ...