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Pray for Michael
Date: Friday, April 1, 2011
Time: 9:10 AM x
Title: Pray for Michael… Written on 2011.4.1 at 03:13 AM Hello this is Super Junior Donghae. I’m currently working hard with schedules in Taiwan. Working hard with the members for album promotions, as well as filming a brilliant challenge with Siwon...working hard for drama activities. At 12:30am today after daily Bible study with the members ended, Siwon and I were on our way back to our room when we saw a Chinese man drinking alone. So when we asked him why he was drinking alone...he said he was just diagnosed with laryngeal cancer. Then we had a conversation for about an hour and a half. On April 3rd the doctor will let him know whether he can survive or not by receiving surgery. As a result he said he is too sad, strained, exhausted and afraid. Siwonie and I told him to stop drinking, to put down the cigarette he was holding in his hand, and we prayed together. Michael does not know God and that trying to pray was useless. He said that since he’s dying already he will spend his days drinking and smoking. But Siwon and I told him to come to church along with us to have good thoughts only and throw away the bad ones through praying. Michael said such sweet words, good thoughts... Anyone could tell such stories. Although he was very thankful, he said that Siwon and I were not him and would not know how he felt either, and that we were not in his position so we could never understand. This is why I told him about the story of my late father. My father was diagnosed with cancer too. For 3 years while he was getting treatment my father too found God and wanted to become God’s son. (He was really a Christian.) Here’s where I lied... I said he’s still living healthily... And that (Michael) should pray and stop drinking and smoking. Michael’s eyes were filled with so much fear and he was in a state where he didn’t even have much strength. So I wanted to give Michael hope, and truly wished Michael would be healthy in the future and that we could become friends who could have meals together, hence I thought of going ahead with the white lie that could give him hope. Michael is one who achieved really a lot and who also received recognition for having worked very hard. He kept telling us to go back and rest but Siwon and I didn't go and kept holding a conversation. With us looking at him, after all Michael threw his drink and also the cigarette away. Michael was so thankful to us for telling him such a good story and delivering a message that gave him hope and he told us he will carry on through praying and having good thoughts. As expected his steps were heavy... he said his wife was at home and that he was too late so we told him to come to our house to sleep. Michael said it's okay and that he was too happy because he met such two good friends and Super Junior and he told us that he will invite us for dinner and to express his thanks. I think that if we had passed him, just said hello and gone by perhaps Michael would've had worse thoughts and he'd be thinking more negatively than before. The saying that even crossing paths is fate...is obviously true. We are proud to be God's sons who can give someone hope and courage. Although everyone lives their own life if we look in front, and behind us a bit more at ease and stretch out our hands we could be able to really pass down big help and happiness. Just because you do not know someone do not pass them by but greet each other with a smile instead and if they don't say hello first, go yourself first and if you greet them with a smile the other party will probably like it and I think you could even become two good friends. I'd like to ask you to pray together. For Michael ...April 3rd is the day he receives the results. I beg you to please pray for Michael to be healthy and for light, not darkness, to be able to shine on his path. Also because this entry is in Korean ...I don't speak English...I'm not fluent in Chinese either. If amidst those who see this entry there are people able to translate it please translate this writing so that one becomes ten and ten becomes a hundred and so many more people will see this entry and pray for Michael for at least 30 seconds even. I think that success, money, and things alike are not important. I think importance lies within other things... Today too I am thankful to God who forged me and once again made me feel. And I'd like to say thank you to Siwon who makes time to guide the members and allow them come closer to God day by day. Good Night Michael... Original Source. 이동해미니홈피 Translated by. Euodsie and Gaia at SJ-WORLD.NET - i had an emotional tweet spam after i read a rough translation elsewhere while waiting for Geuodia's translations. - while waiting for translations, i read a rough one of elsewhere, and you have no idea how touched i am. -if it were anyone of us, we'd have been avoiding that guy by the roadside, we'd judge him for drinking, we probably put a distance away from him -we definitely wouldnt stop, concern ourselves with him, talk to him. -lets say we do, we're nice enough to. but sometimes even after saying "ill be praying for you" we go home, and at that time of the night, -first thing we do, after a long schedule (which you and me probably dont have) we head straight to bed. we'll put off praying till the next day, probably would forget it when we wake up. -i feel like this is a slap to my face. I have all the time in the world to show concern for at least one more person, i have nothing that -would be stopping me from helping another person, i have no important work, i dont have an image to worry over. these guys do. and yet they accomplish so much more than i ever would -just reading rough translations and that got me off, after reading full accurate translations...idk @donghae861015, super junior.. definitely God-sent - i know people will judge me for this. That i'd turn blind eye and ears if it were anyone else and not donghae. For once i would have to agree with you. But you know, maybe this is God's way of waking christian fans of Super Junior? Maybe it's even his way of keeping us in line? Because as fans we look up to them, as fans we do want to do things to please them, charity etc. maybe in a roundabout way, we are also doing this that will please God. Dont say we see them as an idol, that we're crazy and worshipping them. But that they are our brothers in christ, our youth leaders, we look up to and follow. Dont judge them for being popular idols, dont forsake them, they are your brothers in christ too. Please put aside just 30secs of your time to pray for this unknown michael, that God may show mercy on him, that God will save him, both physically and spiritually. ♥ x
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