I wasn\u2019t raised in a Christian home, so I didn\u2019t grow up hearing about the God I now call Father. To me, God was just an abstract concept or idea, and church was mostly a place where Korean families got together to gossip about college acceptances and share strategies on conquering the SAT.<\/p>\n
My parents never told me about the God who says \u201cI will never leave you nor forsake you,\u201d\u009d but, like many children, I certainly knew what it meant to be forsaken.<\/p>\n
At the age of 9, my father left our family and wouldn\u2019t return (besides an annual visit or two) for the next twenty years. His absence became the new normal, and I came to idolize the idea of the \u201cpicture-perfect\u201d\u009d family.<\/p>\n
But all of that changed when one day I saw Jesus…<\/p>\n