Amazing Grace through Depression - Chai, Hi-Dong
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In 1953, a 16-year-old boy, a son of a Christian minister who was kidnapped by the North Korean Communists in the Korean War, came to America, where highways were reportedly paved with 'gold' and money trees grew in abundance. To his great disappointment, he found no money trees. Without a penny from home, he had to work hard and educate himself through school. The first few years, he washed dishes, dug ditches, mixed cement, painted walls, cleaned the restrooms, cleaned the classrooms,... To save money for school, he ate two raw eggs for breakfast and three pieces of Wonder bread with peanut…mehr

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In 1953, a 16-year-old boy, a son of a Christian minister who was kidnapped by the North Korean Communists in the Korean War, came to America, where highways were reportedly paved with 'gold' and money trees grew in abundance. To his great disappointment, he found no money trees. Without a penny from home, he had to work hard and educate himself through school. The first few years, he washed dishes, dug ditches, mixed cement, painted walls, cleaned the restrooms, cleaned the classrooms,... To save money for school, he ate two raw eggs for breakfast and three pieces of Wonder bread with peanut butter and grape jelly in between. Sometimes he felt so lonely in his room that he ate sitting in front of a vanity mirror to keep company with the person he saw in the mirror. But he persisted, received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, established himself as an authority in his field with 52 inventions, 40 publications, and a textbook. But he thought he was a failure because he did not invent an earthshaking device. In 1989, he fell into a major depression. The depression took him to the brink of no return, but the fear of eternal Hell-fire prevented him from crossing the bridge. He decided to seek a therapist's help. Then in 1990, in the therapist's office, he experienced God's Amazing Grace, the inner peace and freedom that he had never thought possible to experience in his life. This inner peace and freedom are still with him to this day. And he decided to share his story with the world.
Autorenporträt
A native of Seoul, Korea, Hi-Dong Chai was educated in the United States. He received a PhD in electrical engineering. As an engineer, he worked nineteen years with IBM and fifteen years as a professor of electrical engineering at San Jose State University. He was recognized as a leading authority of magnetic actuator design. He published extensively in the field of magnetic aspects of electromechanical devices, including a book, Electromechanical Motion Devices, Prentice Hall. He is a holder and co-holder of fifty-two inventions that were either published in the IBM Invention Disclosure Bulletin or filed for U.S. patents. With all his professional accomplishments, he did not forget his life's journey through Korea as the last son of a Christian minister. He did not forget his father in prison under Japan's rule. He did not forget his fifteen-year-old brother, volunteering to join the Japanese military in the hope of having his father released from prison, coming home after World War II, and dying from his injury. He did not forget his father who was taken away by the communists during the Korean War, never to return. He did not forget his mother whose life had been shattered by the wars, but who led her last son with love and wisdom. After retiring in 2002, he decided to spend his remaining years sharing his life stories with the world. My Truest Hope was published in the August 2012 issue of Guideposts magazine. My Truest Hope won the award for Writers talk Challenge for Memoir by South Bay Branch of California Writers Club in February 2013. Also, Blossoms and Bayonets co-authored with Jana McBurney-Lin was e-published in October 2012, and the print version was published in 2013. Sustained by Love Thru the Wars is a formally edited version of Shattered by the Wars, a self-published memoir published by Inspiring Voices of Guideposts magazine in 2013. Also in 2022, Austin Macauley Publisher in New York published his Poems: Story from my Heart.