Good day Emmanuel blog folks!

Clark here with another weekly post. This week has been very hard in a lot of ways but also very life giving. On Sunday January 13^th my dad told my siblings and I that our grandpa had passed away and that the funeral would be on Friday. My grandpa lived a very full life and I was so happy to have known him. He and my grandma visited us often and always said the same words upon leaving, “Study hard, respect your teachers, go to medical school.” Sorry about the last one grandpa.

When I remember Grandpa Rhee I remember those words. When I was in school or working to pay for school I would remember those words and they would help me. I miss him and hearing those words.

At the funeral service we read from the Bible and prayed together but the most moving part for me was when my Aunt Stacy sang How Great Thou Art in Korean.

After the funeral was over I overheard one of my aunts talking about my grandpa and when he first came to America. He was 24 years old and had three hundred dollars. He worked as a dishwasher all over the east coast and in Mississippi. He was contacted by the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California and asked to work there teaching Korean. My father was born in Monterey as well as myself and most of my siblings.

Today I remember my grandpa, John Y. Rhee and the life he lived. Today I remember my grandpa who would make me stop playing to tell me to study hard, respect my teachers and to go to medical school.

Clark Rhee

Facility Manager Intern

When through the woods and forest glades I wander

and hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees

when I look down from lofty mountain grandeur

and hear the brook, and feel he gentle breeze.

Then sings my soul, my Saviour God to Thee

How great Thou art, how great Thou art!