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๋™ํ–‰Walking Together ยท 2025๋…„ 11์›” 14์ผNov 14, 2025

๐Ÿ๊ฐ€์„๋™ํ–‰Autumn Journey - Day 30. New Shoes

๐Ÿ ๊ฐ€์„๋™ํ–‰ #30 ์ƒˆ๊ตฌ๋‘

์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ํ•œ ์ฃผ๊ฐ€ ๋๋‚˜๋Š” '๊ธˆ์š”์ผ'์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์„๋™ํ–‰๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์— ๋ฐ›์€ ์„ ๋ฌผ์ค‘์˜ ํ•˜๋‚˜๊ฐ€ '๊ธˆ์š”์ผ์ด ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•ด์ง„ ๊ฒƒ'์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ช‡ ์ฃผ ์ „๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๊ธˆ์š”์ผ์ด ๋˜๋ฉด ๊ธฐ์–ต๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ถ„์ด ์ƒ๊ฒผ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ช‡ ์ฃผ ์ „ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๊ธˆ์š”์ผ ์˜ค์ „ 6์‹œ์— <๊ฐ€์„๋™ํ–‰ํŽธ์ง€>๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋‚ด์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๋‘ ๊ธˆ์š”์ผ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ์€ '์‹ค์ˆ˜๋กœ' ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ๋žœ๋“œ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค ์ด๋ฉ”์ผ์ฃผ์†Œ๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๊ณ , ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ์€ '์ฃผ๋ณด์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ฐœ์†กํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธˆ์š”์ƒˆ๋ฒฝํŽธ์ง€'์™€ '๊ฐ€์„๋™ํ–‰ํŽธ์ง€'์˜ ๋‚ด์šฉ์ด ๋น„์Šทํ•  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์„œ '์ผ๋ถ€๋Ÿฌ' ๋ฐœ์†กํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์‹ค์ˆ˜๋˜ ๊ณ ์˜๋˜ ๊ธˆ์š”์ผ์— ์ด๋ฉ”์ผ์ด ๋ฐœ์†ก๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์„ ๋•Œ๋งˆ๋‹ค "์˜ค๋Š˜ ๊ฐ€์„๋™ํ–‰ํŽธ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ณด๋‚ด์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ์ด๋ฉ”์ผ์„ ๋ณด๋‚ด์‹  ๋ถ„์ด ๊ณ„์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๊ณ ์˜๋กœ ๋ณด๋‚ด์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์ฃผ ๊ธˆ์š”์ผ์—๋Š” "๋ชฉ์‚ฌ๋‹˜, ์นœ์ ˆํ•œ ๋ง์”€ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ด๋ฏธ ๊ทธ ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ชฉ์‚ฌ๋‹˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์— ์ƒˆ๊ฒจ ๋‘์…จ๊ธฐ์—, ์ €๋Š” ๋‹จ์ง€ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ํ˜•์‹์œผ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ์ €์—๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๋‚ด ๋‹ฌ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ ธ์„ ๋ฟ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค." ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•˜์‹œ๊ณ , ์ง€๋‚œ ์ฃผ์—๋Š” "๋ชฉ์‚ฌ๋‹˜์˜ ๋‹ท์ƒˆ ๋™์•ˆ์˜ ๊ฒฉ๋ ค์˜ ๋ง์”€์„ ๋“ฃ์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด ์ œ ํ•œ ์ฃผ๋Š” ์™„์„ฑ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค." ๋ผ๋Š” ๋ฉ”์„ธ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋‚ด์ฃผ์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ฉ”์„ธ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋“ฃ๊ณ  ํฐ ์œ„๋กœ์™€ ๊ฒฉ๋ ค๋ฅผ ์–ป์—ˆ๊ณ , ์–ด๋А์ƒˆ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆˆ ๋„ค ๋ฒˆ์งธ ๊ธˆ์š”์ผ์ด ๋˜์–ด๊ฐ€๋‹ˆ ๊ทธ๋ถ„์ด ์ž๋™์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐ๋‚˜๋„ค์š”~ ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ์–ด๋–ค ๋ฉ”์„ธ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋‚ด์‹ค๊นŒ? ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ด์ง€๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š” ใ…Žใ…Žใ…Ž (์ค€๋น„๋˜์…จ๋‚˜์š”? ใ…Žใ…Žใ…Ž)


์˜ค๋Š˜์€ <์ƒˆ๊ตฌ๋‘>์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๋ ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


โ€˜์ƒˆ๊ตฌ๋‘โ€™๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์„œ ์ฒซ ํ•˜๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ์‹ ๊ณ  ๋‹ค๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ๋ฐœ ๋’ค๊ฟˆ์น˜์— ๋ฌผ์ง‘์ด ์žกํ˜€์„œ ํ•œ๋™์•ˆ ์•„ํ””์„ ์ฐธ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๊ฑธ์–ด๋‹ค๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ค ๋ฌผ์ง‘์ด ํ„ฐ์ง€๋ฉด ๋ฐด๋“œ๋ฅผ ๋‹จ๋‹จํžˆ ๋ถ™์ด๊ณ  ๋‹ค๋…€์•ผ ๊ทธ๋‚˜๋งˆ ๋œ ์•„ํ”•๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๋™์•ˆ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๋ณด๋ฉด ์ƒˆ๊ตฌ๋‘๊ฐ€ ์ต์ˆ™ํ•ด์ ธ ๋›ฐ์–ด๋„ ์•„ํ”„์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋ฐœ์— ์ต์ˆ™ํ•ด์ง€๋ฉด ๊ตฌ๋‘๋ฅผ ์‚ด ๋•Œ ๋ณด์•˜๋˜ ๋””์ž์ธ๋„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋” ์ด์˜๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ตฌ๋‘๋ฅผ ์‹ ์€ ๋‚ด ๋ชจ์Šต๋„ ์ด๋ป๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ตฌ๋‘๋ž‘ ์ž˜ ์–ด์šธ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์˜ท์„ ์ž…์œผ๋ฉด ๊ตฌ๋‘๋ฅผ ์ •๋ง ์ž˜ ์ƒ€๋‹ค๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฟŒ๋“ฏํ•ด์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์ œ์„œ์•ผ ์ง„์งœ ๋‚ด๊ตฌ๋‘๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์‚ถ์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด ์ฒ˜์Œ์—๋Š” ์–ด์ƒ‰ํ•˜๊ณ , ๋ถˆํŽธํ•˜๊ณ , ๋•Œ๋กœ๋Š” ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๊ณ  ๊ท€์ฐฎ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๊ฐ์ •๋…ธ๋™์„ ํ•˜๊ณ ๋‚˜๋ฉด ์–ด๋А์ƒˆ ์ต์ˆ™ํ•ด์ ธ ๋‚ด ์‚ถ์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์–ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. <๊ฐ€์„๋™ํ–‰>๋„ ์ด์ œ ๋”ฑ! 10์ผ ๋‚จ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ๋‹ค์Œ ์ฃผ๋ฉด ์ˆซ์ž๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๊พธ๋กœ ์นด์šดํŠธ ๋‹ค์šด์„ ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„๋งˆ๋„??? ๋งค์ผ <๊ฐ€์„๋™ํ–‰ํŽธ์ง€>๋ฅผ ์ฝ์œผ์…จ๋˜ ๋ถ„๋“ค์€ ์ œ ํŽธ์ง€๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์šฐ์‹ค์ง€๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค~ ใ…Žใ…Ž ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ๋ณด๋‚ด์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค~ ใ…Žใ…Ž


์™œ๋ƒํ•˜๋ฉด <๊ฐ€์„๋™ํ–‰>์˜ ๋ชฉ์ ์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ๋žœ๋”์Šค๊ฐ€ <๋ง์”€๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋‹˜๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋™ํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ถ>์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ธ๋ก€์š”ํ•œ์ด ์˜ˆ์ˆ˜๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์˜ค์‹ค ๊ธธ์„ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜์‹  ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ (์š”1:23), ์ž์ „์ €๋ฅผ ํ˜ผ์ž ํƒˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋’ค์—์„œ ์žก์•„์ฃผ๋˜ ์†์„ ์Šฌ์ฉ ์Šฌ์ฉ ๋†“๋˜ ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€์˜ ์†์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ, ์ถฉ์„ฑ๋œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ๊ฐ€๋ฅด์น  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋””๋ชจ๋ฐ๋ฅผ ์–‘์œกํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋ฐ”์šธ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ (๋”คํ›„2:2), ์ œ์ž๋“ค์˜ ๋ฐœ์„ ์”ป๊ฒจ์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉฐ '๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋„ˆํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ณธ์„ ๋ณด์˜€์œผ๋‹ˆ ๋„ˆํฌ๋„ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ผ'๊ณ  ๋ณธ์„ ๋ณด์ด์…จ๋˜ ์˜ˆ์ˆ˜๋‹˜์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ (์š”13:14-15), ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์„œ ๋ชจ๋“  ์กฑ์†์œผ๋กœ ์ œ์ž๋ฅผ ์‚ผ์œผ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•˜์…จ๋˜ ์˜ˆ์ˆ˜๋‹˜์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ (๋งˆ28:19-20) 40์ผ๊ฐ„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


์ด๋ฅด๋˜ ๋‚˜๋Š” ์„ ์ง€์ž ์ด์‚ฌ์•ผ์˜ ๋ง๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์ด ์ฃผ์˜ ๊ธธ์„ ๊ณง๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ด‘์•ผ์—์„œ ์™ธ์น˜๋Š” ์ž์˜ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋กœ๋ผ ํ•˜๋‹ˆ๋ผ (์š”ํ•œ๋ณต์Œ 1:23)


๋˜ ๋„ค๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์€ ์ฆ์ธ ์•ž์—์„œ ๋‚ด๊ฒŒ ๋“ค์€ ๋ฐ”๋ฅผ ์ถฉ์„ฑ๋œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋ถ€ํƒํ•˜๋ผ ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ๊ฐ€๋ฅด์น  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฆฌ๋ผ (๋””๋ชจ๋ฐํ›„์„œ 2:2)

๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ์™€ ๋˜๋Š” ์„ ์ƒ์ด ๋˜์–ด ๋„ˆํฌ ๋ฐœ์„ ์”ป์—ˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ ๋„ˆํฌ๋„ ์„œ๋กœ ๋ฐœ์„ ์”ป์–ด ์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์˜ณ์œผ๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋„ˆํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ํ–‰ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์ด ๋„ˆํฌ๋„ ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ ค ํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ณธ์„ ๋ณด์˜€๋…ธ๋ผ (์š”ํ•œ๋ณต์Œ 13:14-15)

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋ฏ€๋กœ ๋„ˆํฌ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์„œ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ฏผ์กฑ์„ ์ œ์ž๋กœ ์‚ผ์•„ ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€์™€ ์•„๋“ค๊ณผ ์„ฑ๋ น์˜ ์ด๋ฆ„์œผ๋กœ ์„ธ๋ก€๋ฅผ ๋ฒ ํ’€๊ณ  ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋„ˆํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ถ„๋ถ€ํ•œ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ฐ€๋ฅด์ณ ์ง€ํ‚ค๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ผ ๋ณผ์ง€์–ด๋‹ค ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์„ธ์ƒ ๋๋‚ ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋„ˆํฌ์™€ ํ•ญ์ƒ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฆฌ๋ผ ํ•˜์‹œ๋‹ˆ๋ผ (๋งˆํƒœ๋ณต์Œ 28:19-20)


์ด์ œ ๋‚จ์€ 10์ผ๊ฐ„์˜ ๋™ํ–‰์€ ๋”์šฑ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ์—ฌํ–‰์ด ๋˜๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์™œ๋ƒํ•˜๋ฉด ๋‹ค์Œ ์ฃผ์™€ ๋‹ค๋‹ค์Œ์ฃผ์—๋Š” ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ง„์งœ ์ง‘ํšŒ์ธ๋„์ฐจ ์ง„์งœ ์—ฌํ–‰์„ ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”. ใ…Žใ…Ž ๋‹ค์Œ ์ฃผ์—๋Š” ํ† ๋ก ํ† ์—์„œ ์—ด๋ฆฌ๋Š” <์ฒญ์ฝ”(์ฒญ๋…„์ฝ”์Šคํƒ€)>์— ๊ฐ•์‚ฌ๋กœ ์„ฌ๊ธฐ๊ฒŒ ๋˜๊ตฌ์š”. ๊ทธ ๋‹ค์Œ ์ฃผ์—๋Š” ์‹œ์นด๊ณ ์—์„œ ์—ด๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ฒญ๋…„์ˆ˜๋ จํšŒ <2030 ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค>์— ๊ฐ•์‚ฌ๋กœ ์„ฌ๊ธฐ๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ <๊ฐ€์„๋™ํ–‰>์€ ๋ณ€ํ•จ์—†์ด ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๊ตฌ์š”. ์ฃผ์ผ์—๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ๋žœ๋”์Šค์™€ ์ฃผ์ผ์˜ˆ๋ฐฐ๋ฅผ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋‹ˆ ์ฃผ์ผ์˜ˆ๋ฐฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‚ฌ๋ชจํ•˜๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ๋žœ๋“œ๋กœ ์˜ค์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


์˜ค๋Š˜๋„ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ง์ฃผ๋ณ€์ด ์—†์–ด ๋˜ ์—„์ฒญ ๊ธด ๊ธ€์ด ๋˜์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ '์—ฌ๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€' '๋๊นŒ์ง€' ์ฝ์–ด์ฃผ์‹  ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜๋งŒ(?) ์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค~~~ ์˜ค๋Š˜๋„ ๋ง์”€๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋‹˜๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ฆ๊ฒ๊ณ  ํ–‰๋ณตํ•œ ๋™ํ–‰์˜ ํ•˜๋ฃจ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์†Œ๋งํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ธฐ๋„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค~ ์ƒฌ๋กฌ~

์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ํŠน๋ณ„ํžˆ ๋…ธ๋ž˜ ํ•œ ๊ณก ๋“ค์–ด๋ณด์‹œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”? <ํ•˜๋ฃจ>๋ผ๋Š” ์ฐฌ์–‘์ธ๋ฐ์š”. ์ด ์ฐฌ์–‘๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ฃผ์‹  ์˜ค๋Š˜ ํ•˜๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ์ฆ๊ฒ๊ฒŒ ์ง€๋‚ด์‹œ๊ธธ ์†Œ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค~ ํ•œ๊ธ€์ฐฌ์•ผ์ด์–ด์„œ ๊ฐ€์‚ฌ๋Š” ์˜์–ด๋กœ๋งŒ ๊ณต์œ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค~

<์ฐฌ์–‘> "ํ•˜๋ฃจ"


2025๋…„ ๊ฐ€์„์„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ฑท๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ด๊ธธํ‘œ๋“œ๋ฆผ

<๊ฐ€์„๋™ํ–‰> ๋‚˜๋ˆ” ๋งํฌ

๊ฐ€์„๋™ํ–‰ ๋ฌต์ƒ๋‚˜๋ˆ”

๊ฐ€์„๋™ํ–‰ ํŽ˜์ด์ง€ ๋ฐ”๋กœ๊ฐ€๊ธฐ

2026 ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ๋žœ๋”์Šค ๋น„์ „ํŠธ๋ฆฝ

๋“ฑ๋ก๋งํฌ (1์ฐจ ๋งˆ๊ฐ: 2025๋…„ 11์›” 30์ผ)

๐Ÿ Autumn Journey #30 New Shoes

Special Fridays!!!

Today is Fridayโ€”the day that closes our week. An unexpected gift during this Autumn Journey has been this: Fridays have become special. A few weeks ago, something changed. On two separate Fridays, the Autumn Journey email did not go outโ€”one time due to an honest mistake, and another time intentionally, because the Friday Dawn Letter already carried a similar message.


Each time the email didnโ€™t arrive, one person sent me an email saying, โ€œPastor, I did not receive todayโ€™s Autumn Journey letter. Could you please send it again?โ€ย 

And then, on the week I intentionally skipped the letter, that person replied, โ€œPastor, thank you for your kind note. But the message was already written on your heart by God. I simply asked that it be delivered to me in digital form.โ€ย 

Last week I received another message: โ€œPastor, my week is not incomplete until I hear your five days of uplifting messages.โ€ - (What wonderful, encouraging, and warm words!!!)ย 

Those words lifted my spirit in such a tender way. And now that this is the fourth Friday weโ€™ve had this little rhythm, I naturally think of that person again. Iโ€™m already wondering: What message will he send today? ๐Ÿ˜Š

The Story of New Shoes

Thereโ€™s something unforgettable about the first day I wear a pair of new shoes. Blisters form on the back of my heel, but I keep walking anyway. When the blister breaks, I patch it with a bandage and continue moving. After several daysโ€”without even noticing when it happensโ€”the new shoes begin to fit my feet. I can even run without pain.


And suddenly, the shoes start looking beautiful again, just as they did in the store. I feel good in them. I even start choosing outfits that match them. Only then do the shoes feel like they truly belong to me.

Iโ€™ve realized that my life often works the same way. Whenever I step into new rhythms and disciplines, they feel awkward, inconvenient, or exhausting at first. But when I keep walkingโ€”despite the discomfortโ€”those rhythms slowly become part of who I am.

Now weโ€™re just 10 days away from finishing our Autumn Journey. Next week, we begin counting backwards. Some of you might even miss these daily letters. ๐Ÿ˜„ But I wonโ€™t continue them, because the purpose of this journey has always been simple and clear: I wanted to help our Greenlanders walk with God, with Scripture, and with joy.


Just as John the Baptist prepared the way for Christ (John 1:23),

just as a father lets go of the bicycle so his child can ride alone,

just as Paul trained Timothy to teach faithful people (2 Tim 2:2),

just as Jesus washed His disciplesโ€™ feet and said, โ€œDo as I have done for you,โ€ (John 13:14-15)

and just as He commanded us to make disciples of all nations (Matthew 28:19-20) โ€”

these 40 days have been my way of helping you learn to walk with God on your own feet.

John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet, "I am the voice of one calling in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way for the Lord.'" (John 1:23, NIV)

And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others. (2 Timothy 2:2, NIV)

Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another's feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. (John 13:14-15, NIV)

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." (Matthew 28:19-20, NIV)

The Last 10 Days

My hope is that the remaining ten days will become an even richer journey. Next week and the week after, Iโ€™ll be travelingโ€”serving as a speaker at Cheong-KO (KOSTA Young Adult Conference) in Toronto, and the following week at the 2030 Conference in Chicago.


But the Autumn Journey will continue as usual. And on Sundays, Iโ€™ll be right here with our Greenland family to worship. Please come with expectation and longing for Godโ€™s presence.


This letter has become long againโ€”my apologies. But for those who stayed with me โ€œuntil the end,โ€ thank you. Truly. May today be filled with joy as you walk with Scripture, and walk with God. Shalom.


Before you goโ€”would you listen to one song today? Itโ€™s called โ€œHaru (One Day)โ€ by HisWill. Since the song is in Korean, Iโ€™m sharing only the English lyrics below. Have a Terrific Day in Christ!!!ย 

๐ŸŽต One Day (English Lyric Version)

Verse 1ย 

Youโ€™ve given me another day,ย 
A gift I didnโ€™t earn.ย 
Familiar yet so new again,ย 
Another chance to learn.

With a quiet stirring in my heart,ย 
I take my step to start.ย 
Wondering what this day will bring,ย 
What grace will fill my part.

Pre-Chorusย 
It may be just an ordinary day,ย 
Or a surprise day where dreams find their way.

Chorusย 
But every step I takeย 
On the path of love You pave,ย 
Turns into joy for me,ย 
A story that You gave.

Verse 2ย 
Looking back I see how farย 
Your faithful hand has led.ย 
I may not know where this road goes,ย 
Or whatโ€™s a mile ahead.

Yet walking here beside my Lord,ย 
I trust the road You choose.ย 
And at the end of this long way,ย 
I know I will not lose.

Final Chorusย 
For every step I takeย 
On this road with You today,ย 
Will blossom joy in meย 
And guide my heart Your way.

Walking with You here,ย 
I feel Your mercy stayโ€”ย 
And when this journey ends,ย 
I know Iโ€™ll smile that day.

*You can listen to the song by clicking belowย 

ย Haru (One Day) by His Will



Walking together through the autumn of 2025,

Rev. Gil Lee

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