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Her childhood was far from easy. It was her gentle mother who offered refuge, taking her to the church at night. She remembers drifting to sleep and then waking to see her mother praying so earnestly — the church becoming not just a building, but a safe haven, a place where she could breathe and feel safe.
Back then, she didn’t think of it as “religion.” For her, it was simply a place of calm. Even now, churches remain symbols of peace. When traveling, she always finds herself drawn to them. Beyond the beauty of old art and history, she feels the invisible weight of countless prayers layered over time — something that makes a church feel alive, inspiring in ways words can’t capture.
She often reminds herself of Thoreau’s words: “Here or nowhere is our heaven.” While stepping into a church may bring calm and lift the spirit toward dreams of a perfect world, she believes the greater challenge is to be truly present in the here and now. She asks herself: Am I making this place worth being in? Am I putting things off or blaming others? For her, there is a special irony in carrying those words inside a sacred space.
At the center of her personal heaven was always Nana, her cat and companion for 20 years. Wherever Nana was — in the US, Germany, or Korea — felt like home. He lived only in the moment, asking for nothing more than presence and love, teaching her silently what it means to be fully here.
Later came Nana Junior, a kitten with stunning mismatched eyes, whom she brought home after Nana passed, longing to fill the void. His life was heartbreakingly short — only four years, cut short by a heart condition — yet his presence left a mark just as deep. Both Nana and Nana Junior are gone now, but their memory remains, woven into her story of home, faith, and peace.
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