๊ทธ๋ฆฐ๋žœ๋“œ์—ฐํ•ฉ๊ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ตํšŒGreenland UMCGREENLAND UNITED METHODISTGREENLAND, NEW HAMPSHIRE
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๋™ํ–‰Walking Together ยท 2025๋…„ 11์›” 18์ผNov 18, 2025

๐Ÿ ๊ฐ€์„๋™ํ–‰Autumn Journey #33 "๋Œ€์ฒญ์†Œ"

๐Ÿ ๊ฐ€์„๋™ํ–‰ #33 "๋Œ€์ฒญ์†Œ"

๊ทธ๋ฆฐ๋žœ๋“œ๊ตํšŒ์— ์™€์„œ ๋†€๋ผ๋ฉฐ ๊ฐ๋™๋ฐ›์•˜๋˜ ๋‚ ๋“ค๊ณผ ์ผ๋“ค์ด ๋งŽ์ด ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ ์ค‘์˜ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” <๊ตํšŒ๋Œ€์ฒญ์†Œ>์˜ ๋‚ ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ตํšŒ๋Œ€์ฒญ์†Œํ•˜๋Š” ์ฃผ์ผ์— ํ‰์†Œ์— ๋ณด์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋˜ ์ฒญ๋…„๋“ค์„ ๋งŒ๋‚ฌ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ถ€์ž„ํ›„ ์ฃผ์ผ์—๋Š” ๋ชป๋ณด๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๊ตํšŒ๋Œ€์ฒญ์†Œ์˜ ์ฃผ์ผ์— ์ฒ˜์Œ ๋งŒ๋‚œ ์ฒญ๋…„๋„ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณดํ†ต ์ฒญ๋…„๋“ค์€ ์ฃผ์ผ์— ์ž˜ ๋‚˜์˜ค๋‹ค๊ฐ€๋„ ์ฒญ์†Œํ•˜๋Š” ๋‚ ์ด๋ฉด ๊ตํšŒ์— ์•ˆ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๋Š”๊ฒŒ ์ •์ƒ(?)์ธ๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ๋žœ๋“œ์—์„œ๋Š” ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ๊ตํšŒ๋Œ€์ฒญ์†Œํ•˜๋Š” ๋‚ ์— ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด์„œ ์ง€๊ธˆ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์ ์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์„ ๋ฐ›์€ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ๋กœ ์ œ ๋งˆ์Œ์— ์ฐพ์•„์˜จ ์ƒ๊ฐ์€ "๊ทธ๋ฆฐ๋žœ๋“œ๊ตํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด ๊ตํšŒ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ์ฐ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ๋žœ๋“œ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์ด๊ตฌ๋‚˜" ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ตํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์ง„์งœ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ๋Œ€์ฒญ์†Œ์˜ ๋‚  ์˜ค๊ธฐ ์‰ฝ์ง€ ์•Š์„๊ฑฐ๋ผ๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ๋Š” "ํ•˜๋‚˜๋‹˜์„ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ์žˆ๊ตฌ๋‚˜" ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•ด๋„ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋‹˜์„ ๊ฒฝ์™ธํ•˜๊ณ  ์กด๊ท€ํžˆ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ์—†์ด๋Š” ๊ตํšŒ๋ฅผ ์ฒญ์†Œ๋ผ๋Ÿฌ ์˜ค์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„๋ฌดํŠผ, ์ด์ œ 1๋…„๋„ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ„ ๊ทธ ๋‚ ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ์ง€๊ธˆ๋„ ์ƒ์ƒํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ œ ๋งˆ์Œ์— ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด ์ ์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์„ ๋ฐ›์€ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋ฆฐ๋žœ๋“œ ๋Œ€์ฒญ์†Œ์˜ ๋‚ ์„ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•ด๋ณด๋ฉด ๊ฐ ์ž๊ฐ€ ๊ตํšŒ์˜ ๊ตฌ์„๊ตฌ์„์„ ๊นจ๋—ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‹ฆ๋˜ ๋ชจ์Šต๋“ค์ด ๊ธฐ์–ต๋‚ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ˆ„๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋””๋ฅผ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์•ผํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„๋„ ๊ฐ ์ž๊ฐ€ ๊ตฌ์„๊ตฌ์„์„ ์•Œ์•„์„œ ์ฐพ์•„๋‹ค๋‹ˆ๋ฉฐ ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ์ฒญ์†Œํ•˜๋˜ ๋ชจ์Šต์ด ๊ธฐ์–ต๋‚ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ๋‚จ์„ฑ๋“ค์€ ๊ตํšŒ๋ฐ– ์ •์› ๊ตฌ์„๊ตฌ์„์— ์žˆ๋Š” ์žก์ดˆ๋“ค์„ ์ž๋ฅด๊ณ  ์ œ๊ฑฐํ•˜๋Š” ๋ชจ์Šต๋“ค์ด ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ธฐ์–ต์ด ๋‚ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ •๋ง ์˜ค๋žœ ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋™์•ˆ ๊ตํšŒ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•ด์˜จ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๊ณ ์„œ๋Š” ๋ณด๊ธฐ ํž˜๋“  ๊ด‘๊ฒฝ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

<๋Œ€์ฒญ์†Œ>๋ž€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ผ์„ ๋ฉˆ์ถ”๊ณ  ์ „์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฒญ์†Œ๋งŒ ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠน๋ณ„ํžˆ '๋Œ€'์ฒญ์†Œ๋ž€ ํ‰์†Œ์—๋Š” ์†๊ธธ์ด ๋‹ฟ์ง€ ์•Š๋˜ ๊ณณ์˜ ์ˆจ์€ ๋จผ์ง€์™€ ๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ ์Œ“์—ฌ์žˆ๋Š” ๋”๋Ÿฌ์šด ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์„ ๊นจ๋—ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ฒญ์†Œํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€๊ตฌ๋‚˜ ์ฑ…์ƒ์•„๋ž˜๋‚˜ ๋’ค์ชฝ์— ์Œ“์—ฌ ์žˆ๋˜ ๋จผ์ง€์™€ ์“ฐ๋ ˆ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ฑฐํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๋Œ€์ฒญ์†Œ๋Š” ํž˜๋„ ์จ์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ท€์ฐฎ์Œ๊ณผ ๋”๋Ÿฌ์›€์„ ์ง๋ฉดํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ์–ด๋ ค์›€์ด ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ํฐ ๋ง˜ ๋จน๊ณ  ์ž‘์ •ํ•˜๊ณ  ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์™œ๋ƒํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ˆˆ์— ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ์“ฐ๋ ˆ๊ธฐ๋“ค๋งŒ ์น˜์šฐ๋Š”๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ฑ…์ƒ๋„ ์˜ฎ๊ธฐ๊ณ  ์žฅ์‹์žฅ๋„ ์˜ฎ๊ฒจ์„œ ์ˆจ์–ด์žˆ๋Š” ์“ฐ๋ ˆ๊ธฐ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ‰์†Œ์— ์†๊ธธ์ด ๋‹ฟ์น˜์•Š๋˜ ๊ณณ์„ ๊ฑธ๋ ˆ๋กœ ๊ตฌ์„๊ตฌ์„ ๋‹ฆ๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค.

<๋ฌต์ƒ>๋„ <์˜ํ˜ผ๋Œ€์ฒญ์†Œ>ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ์„ ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋‹˜์˜ ๋ง์”€์„ ์ฝ๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ์กฐ๊ธˆ์”ฉ ์กฐ๊ธˆ์”ฉ ๋” ํˆฌ์žํ•˜์—ฌ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋‹˜์˜ ๋ง์”€์„ ์ •์งํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€๋ฉดํ•˜์—ฌ ์ฝ์„ ๋•Œ๋ฉด ๋‚˜์˜ ์†์‚ฌ๋žŒใ…์ด ๋ณด์ด๊ณ , ๊ตฌ์„ ๊ตฌ์„ ์ˆจ๊ฒจ์ ธ ์žˆ๋˜ ์†๋งˆ์Œ์„ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋ฉด ๋•Œ๋กœ๋Š” ๊ฐ์ถ”์–ด์กŒ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค๊ณผ ๊นจ๋—ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋˜ ์†๋งˆ์Œ๋“ค์„ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌ๋˜์–ด์ง€๋Š” ๋”๋Ÿฌ์›€๋“ค์„ ์ œ๊ฑฐํ•˜๋‹ค๋ณด๋ฉด ์–ด๋А์ƒˆ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์†์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ๊นจ๋—ํ•ด์ง€๊ณ  ๋”๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ๋ณด์‹œ๊ธฐ์— ๊ฑฐ๋ฃฉํ•ด์ ธ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ <2025 ๊ฐ€์„๋™ํ–‰>์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ๋žœ๋”์Šค๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ <์˜ํ˜ผ ๋Œ€์ฒญ์†Œ> ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์ด ๋˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์†Œ๋งํ•ด๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!

โ€œ์–ด๋‘์šด ๋ฐ์— ๋น›์ด ๋น„์น˜๋ผ ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์…จ๋˜ ๊ทธ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์˜ˆ์ˆ˜ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋„์˜ ์–ผ๊ตด์— ์žˆ๋Š” ํ•˜๋‚˜๋‹˜์˜ ์˜๊ด‘์„ ์•„๋Š” ๋น›์„ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋งˆ์Œ์— ๋น„์ถ”์…จ๋А๋‹ˆ๋ผโ€ (๊ณ ๋ฆฐ๋„ํ›„์„œ 4:6)

โ€œ๊ทธ ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ์— ๊ณ„์‹œ๋Š” ์—ฌํ˜ธ์™€๋Š” ์˜๋กœ์šฐ์‚ฌ ๋ถˆ์˜๋ฅผ ํ–‰ํ•˜์ง€ ์•„๋‹ˆํ•˜์‹œ๊ณ  ์•„์นจ๋งˆ๋‹ค ๋น ์ง์—†์ด ์ž๊ธฐ์˜ ๊ณต์˜๋ฅผ ๋น„์ถ”์‹œ๊ฑฐ๋Š˜ ๋ถˆ์˜ํ•œ ์ž๋Š” ์ˆ˜์น˜๋ฅผ ์•Œ์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋Š”๋„๋‹คโ€(์Šค๋ฐ”๋ƒ 3:5)

โ€œ์ด ์„ธ์ƒ์ด๋‚˜ ์„ธ์ƒ์— ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์„ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ง๋ผ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋“ ์ง€ ์„ธ์ƒ์„ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜๋ฉด ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ด ๊ทธ ์•ˆ์— ์žˆ์ง€ ์•„๋‹ˆํ•˜๋‹ˆ ์ด๋Š” ์„ธ์ƒ์— ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์ด ์œก์‹ ์˜ ์ •์š•๊ณผ ์•ˆ๋ชฉ์˜ ์ •์š•๊ณผ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ์ž๋ž‘์ด๋‹ˆ ๋‹ค ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€๊ป˜๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์˜จ ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ์š” ์„ธ์ƒ์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์˜จ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ ์ด ์„ธ์ƒ๋„, ๊ทธ ์ •์š•๋„ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋˜ ์˜ค์ง ํ•˜๋‚˜๋‹˜์˜ ๋œป์„ ํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” ์ž๋Š” ์˜์›ํžˆ ๊ฑฐํ•˜๋А๋‹ˆ๋ผโ€ (์š”ํ•œ์ผ์„œ 2:15-17)

2025๋…„ ๊ฐ€์„์„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ฑท๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”

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๐Ÿ Autumn Journey #33 โ€œDeep Cleaningโ€

One of the moments that impressed me most after coming to Greenland Church was our Church Deep Cleaning Day. I met young adults I had never seen on a regular Sunday. In fact, there were some I met for the very first timeโ€”not during worship, but on the day we cleaned the church. Normally, young adults disappear when itโ€™s cleaning day. But in Greenland, the exact opposite happened. The memory remains vivid because it was genuinely shockingโ€”in a good way.

Two thoughts came to my heart that day. First, โ€œThese are true Greenland family members who see this church as their own.โ€ No one shows up for deep cleaning unless they truly feel, โ€œThis is my church.โ€

Second, โ€œThey must genuinely love God.โ€ Even if we feel like family, we still donโ€™t show up to clean Godโ€™s house unless there is a reverent, honoring love for the Lord. The fact that they came spoke volumes about their hearts.

As I look back, I still remember each person wiping corners of the churchโ€”no instructions needed. Everyone simply walked around, found a spot, and cleaned it with care. I remember the men outside trimming weeds and clearing hidden corners around the garden. These are scenes you can only witness in a church loved deeply over a long time.

Deep cleaning means stopping everything else and giving ourselves fully to the work of cleaning. And โ€œdeepโ€ cleaning means dealing with what we usually leave untouchedโ€”dust in hidden corners, dirt behind furniture, things we didnโ€™t know had piled up. Itโ€™s inconvenient, tiring, and sometimes unpleasant. Thatโ€™s why deep cleaning requires intention, a decisive heart, and a willingness to face what we normally overlook.

Recently, I realized that meditation is very much like deep cleaning of the soul. Meditation begins simply with reading Godโ€™s Word. But when we give Godโ€™s Word a little more timeโ€”when we face it with honestyโ€”our inner person becomes visible. Hidden corners of the heart emerge. Things we avoided, ignored, or covered up rise to the surface. And as we let the Spirit cleanse what is uncovered, our souls become clear again, and eventually holy before the Lord.

My hope is that this 2025 Autumn Journey becomes a season of soul-deep-cleaning for all Greenlandersโ€”a time when God gently reveals what is hidden and restores purity within us.

โ€œFor God, who said, โ€˜Let light shine out of darkness,โ€™ made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of Godโ€™s glory displayed in the face of Christ.โ€ โ€” 2 Corinthians 4:6

โ€œThe Lord within her is righteous; He does no wrong. Morning by morning He dispenses His justice, and every new day He does not fail, yet the unrighteous know no shame.โ€ โ€” Zephaniah 3:5

โ€œDo not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in them. For everything in the worldโ€”the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of lifeโ€”comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.โ€ โ€” 1 John 2:15โ€“17

Walking together through the autumn of 2025,

Rev. Gil Lee

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