A Gift

Have you seen this video yet of Sung-Bong Choi from Korea?

He is an amazing singer–a boy, a boy abandoned, a boy who was on his own at age 5 after being abused at an orphanage, a boy who was forced to sleep in rest rooms and public stairs while selling gum to get by, a boy who was sold into labor. He is an amazing singer. I do not understand what he is singing — but I know it is beautiful.

I am so thankful that God gave him this amazing gift–something beautiful in a desolate place. He told the judges something like “Rather than say I enjoy singing, I like singing because it was the first thing I liked after living that day-fly life.”

Grace. A gift of beauty in ugliness, of feeling when he probably had stopped feeling altogether, of relationship with others in brokenness. That’s our God.

I’m the 4,498th person to “like” his Facebook page. But, I’m wishing I could just sit with him and encourage him in person instead.