“Do not worry! I am here now,” I said one day in my prayer morning devotion. I was talking to my ancestors, telling them that I will do what it takes to free and liberate them. And my husband’s ancestors as well! We are here now.

One warm summer day my son’s wish was to visit the tombs of his ancestors as he was visiting me in France for three days. That day he was inspired and reverent.

One of his friends from Ireland healed himself by working with his ancestors and working out his own life and diseases coming from ancestral dysfunction.

The filial heart of honoring one’s ancestors goes beyond repairing the debt of gratitude to one’s own parent. it is also the root of ethics of human existence, revering the source of all life.

In Korea it is said that filial devotion protects one’s parents, one’s family, and one’s neighbors, becoming the driving force for overcoming national crisis. It is the spirit that, beginning with the family, sustains the society and nation.