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About TaeHun Yoon 윤 태헌 尹 太憲

Poet, Retired Pastor of the United Methodist Church

“Spring of Rocky Hill”

Bright morning on the hill.Light on the branches.The buds hesitatebetween sleep and speech. Yet the heartdoes not quiet. Somewherebeyond this fieldthe old argument continues—war repeating itselfwith tired certainty. Many reasons have been spoken.None have made it just. Still the earth … Continue reading

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Beginning the Parsonage Letters

There is a place where my heart often lingers.It is not a place where an empty chair waits for me, nor where familiar faces greet me.It is simply my own place—my sanctuary. One day I discovered that a bud, which … Continue reading

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목사관 서신을 시작하며

제 마음이 종종 머무는 곳이 있습니다. 그곳엔 저를 기다려 주는 빈 의자가 있는 곳도 아니요, 안면이 있는 사람들이 맞아주는 곳도 아닙니다. 다만 그곳은 저만의 장소이며 성소입니다. 어느 날, 수년을 기다리던 껍질을 헤치고 새순이 따스한 햇볕아래 돋아나고 있음을 발견하였습니다. 그것은 경이로운 … Continue reading

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Old Age — Like Falling Leaves

As autumn passes and I find myself wanting to say that the mountains and fields seem to be burning away, I was given the opportunity to visit, with the elderly members of our church, the birthplace of President Roosevelt in … Continue reading

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Mountain Ballad Again (III)

Conscience is a fire underground.No law can smother it. Beneath this Smoky Mountain clay—two feet, no more—a mountain waits. Easter draws near,not with trumpetsbut with a gathering weight. Passion will press through the soil.Stone will loosen its hold.What was hiddenwill … Continue reading

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Mountain Ballad Again (II)

Once, in another forest,I walked beside the quiet pondwith Henry David Thoreau—learning how little a life requires,how pine and waterwrite their patient lessons. Once, beneath a wider sky,I listened with Wilhelm Reichfor the hidden pulsemoving between breath and cloud—body and … Continue reading

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Mountain Ballad Again (I)

Between the wires,where current hums without thought,a paulownia once stood—too near the careful reach of power. It fell. The stump was burned.Fire entered the heartwood,left a hollow—a dark mouth in the earthbreathing smokelong after the flame was gone. Years went … Continue reading

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말씀묵상의 보물을 찾아

현대인들은 하루에도 수 십만가지의 생각과 공상 속에 사로잡혀 살 때가 많습니다. 밤에 잠자리에 들어 가면 이리뒤척 저리뒤척하면서 삶의 모든 짐들을 끌어안고 씨름하다 보면, 아침에 일어나서도 머리가 무겁고 개운치 않으며 짜증만이 날 때가 있습니다. 과연 우리는 이곳에서 경제적으로 성공 할 수 … Continue reading

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Finding the Treasure of Scripture Meditation

Modern people often live trapped in hundreds of thousands of thoughts and imaginations each day. When we lie down at night, tossing and turning while wrestling with the burdens of life, we sometimes wake up with a heavy head, unrested, … Continue reading

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노년기 – 낙엽이 지듯이

가을을 보내면서 산야가 타들어 간다고 표현하고픈 요즈음에, 교회의 연세 드신 어른들과 함께 엎스테이트의 포킵시에 있는 루즈벨트 대통령의 생가와, 철도사업으로 성공한 갑부 밴더빌트 맨션(Vanderbilt Mansion)을 방문 할 수 있는 기회를 갖게되었습니다. 한여름 내내 벼르고 별러서 잡은 날이었는데, 그날 마침 가을비가 아침부터 … Continue reading

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