Get Inspired

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, "He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust." ~ Psalm 91:1-2

Search

Additional pages

Find me on...

Posts I like

More liked posts
Link
 View high resolution
As we honor the birthday of perhaps the greatest President in our history - Abraham Lincoln, I vividly remember Abe Lincoln being one of father’s favorite American heroes as well. He read countless books and watched many videos on the life of our 16th President. Dad also had the honor of meeting two presidents of the Republic of Korea, including Chun Doo-Hwan (pictured) and Lee Myung-Bak. Both presidents presented him with the nation’s highest civilian award and medal of honor for his service to the country, contributions to the sport of Tae Kwon Do and his work with the Korean community in the United States and abroad. My father also received South Korea’s second highest civilian award from President Park Chung-Hee and was friends with his daughter and incoming President - Park Geun-Hee. He was close friends with the husband of Park Chung-Hee’s cousin and often stayed over his family home when they were both classmates in college. Dad was a strong supporter of Park Geun-Hee and would have no doubt been very proud of the election of Ms. Park as the nation’s new and first female president if he lived to see this moment.

As we honor the birthday of perhaps the greatest President in our history - Abraham Lincoln, I vividly remember Abe Lincoln being one of father’s favorite American heroes as well. He read countless books and watched many videos on the life of our 16th President. Dad also had the honor of meeting two presidents of the Republic of Korea, including Chun Doo-Hwan (pictured) and Lee Myung-Bak. Both presidents presented him with the nation’s highest civilian award and medal of honor for his service to the country, contributions to the sport of Tae Kwon Do and his work with the Korean community in the United States and abroad.

My father also received South Korea’s second highest civilian award from President Park Chung-Hee and was friends with his daughter and incoming President - Park Geun-Hee. He was close friends with the husband of Park Chung-Hee’s cousin and often stayed over his family home when they were both classmates in college. Dad was a strong supporter of Park Geun-Hee and would have no doubt been very proud of the election of Ms. Park as the nation’s new and first female president if he lived to see this moment.

Link
 View high resolution
(insert: a picture of me and my father I found from boxes full of photos. my dad was an avid photographer and took tens of thousands of pictures in his lifetime.) I really like this picture of me and dad from many years past. Where has the time gone? It is time to move forward without him but I will always have many wonderful memories with him that I will forever cherish.

(insert: a picture of me and my father I found from boxes full of photos. my dad was an avid photographer and took tens of thousands of pictures in his lifetime.)

I really like this picture of me and dad from many years past. Where has the time gone? It is time to move forward without him but I will always have many wonderful memories with him that I will forever cherish.

Link
 View high resolution
It took me years to earn all my blackbelts. All under the teaching, leadership and watchful eyes of my father - Grandmaster Myung Kyu Kang. Perhaps the one he wore for many years and then gave me (pictured in front) to have means as much to me now as the ones I earned. Rest in peace, Daddy.

It took me years to earn all my blackbelts. All under the teaching, leadership and watchful eyes of my father - Grandmaster Myung Kyu Kang. Perhaps the one he wore for many years and then gave me (pictured in front) to have means as much to me now as the ones I earned. Rest in peace, Daddy.

Happy Birthday Father

image

I am profoundly injured by the loss of my father. Dad would have been 80 years old today. It pains me that he did not live to see his eighties. He was less than two months shy when he passed away. The pain and guilt only deepens for me when I think about how he died. He left this earth without me given him the things he would have wanted, like a family of my own. There is certainly peace in knowing where he is and that is with the Lord. Right now, I just miss him immensely. So I reflect on his life and the memories he gave us on this first posthumous celebration of the man that was my father, Myung Kyu Kang.

Daddy was a very kind, generous, gracious man that believed in me and his disciples more than we believed in ourselves. My dad’s eyes, they soften with age. But I remembered when those eyes would instill fear in those that opposed him while they instilled confidence in others he loved and cared for. I always felt safe and protected around my dad just by looking into his eyes. I still feel he is looking out for me now. Happy Birthday, Dad. I love you and miss you.

Link
 View high resolution
Six years :D

Six years :D

Link
 View high resolution
The value of a masterpiece is determined by the fame of the maker. If so, whose masterpiece am I? I am God’s masterpiece! Dave Myung Kyu Kang - ‘Solitary Road of a Master,’ p. 121

The value of a masterpiece is determined by the fame of the maker. If so, whose masterpiece am I? I am God’s masterpiece!

Dave Myung Kyu Kang - ‘Solitary Road of a Master,’ p. 121

Link
 View high resolution
There should be a purpose for everything you do Grandmaster Myung Kyu Kang
There should be a purpose for everything you do

Grandmaster Myung Kyu Kang

Link
 View high resolution
One last visit to my father’s burial site before leaving for my home in Orange County (at East Lawn)

One last visit to my father’s burial site before leaving for my home in Orange County (at East Lawn)

Myung Kyu Kang - January 17, 1933 to November 23, 2012



Our Sabumin was laid to rest this morning. The Kang family wishes to thank all of you who made it out to the wake service last night and the funeral and burial services this morning to pay your last respects to Grandmaster Kang. And thank you too the countless more who upheld Sabumin and his family in your prayers during this most difficult p

eriod for them. The family greatly appreciates your continued prayers now for healing, strength and comfort.

We now say goodnight, not goodbye, to our Father Teacher Sir and will miss him terribly until we see him again in heaven one day. So goodnight fellow child of God, husband, father, grandfather, cousin, uncle, master, grandmaster, teacher, elder, community leader, war veteran, mentor and friend.

Now, let us live our lives by the teachings he instilled in us and the powerful example he left. Our daily journey is to learn to Believe Respect Appreciate one and all. Let us be faithful to God, train hard and fight the good fight, build character, help others and be better individuals. Sabumin will then look down from heaven and smile upon all his disciples that he loved so very much.
Link
 View high resolution
Goodnight Daddy. Thank you for being a great example to me and truly a wonderful father. I miss you already so much. I cannot believe you are gone but may you now find rest. I love you always. Your spirit and legacy will live through me and the family. (at Ark Mission Church)

Goodnight Daddy. Thank you for being a great example to me and truly a wonderful father. I miss you already so much. I cannot believe you are gone but may you now find rest. I love you always. Your spirit and legacy will live through me and the family. (at Ark Mission Church)

“A goal without a plan is just a wish”

Link
View high resolution
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth

“The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together”

Carl Sagan

My father, Grandmaster Myung Kyu Kang, demonstrating a tai chi form and an air break at a demo at the Cal Expo State Fair in either a late 70’s or early 80’s video. No one, and I mean no one, could break a stack of bricks like my father. Happy 79th birthday, dad!

Source youtube.com

SIX STEPS OF NONVIOLENT SOCIAL CHANGE

A sequential process of nonviolent conflict-resolution and social change based on Dr. Martin Luther King’s teachings.

  1. Information Gathering – The way you determine the facts, the option for change, and the timing of pressure for raising the issue is a collective process.
  2. Education – The process for developing articulate leaders, who are knowledgeable about the issues. It is directed toward the community through all forms of media about the real issues and human consequences of an unjust situation.
  3. Personal Commitment – Means looking at your internal and external involvement in the nonviolent campaign and preparing yourself for long-term as well as short-term action.
  4. Negotiation – Is the art of bringing together your views and those of your opponent to arrive at a just conclusion or clarify the unresolved issues, at which point, the conflict is formalized.
  5. Direct Action – Occurs when negotiations have broken down or failed to produce a just response to the contested issues and conditions.
  6. Reconciliation – Is the mandatory closing step of a campaign, when the opponents and proponents celebrate the victory and provide joint leadership to implement change.

We often view the Six Steps as a phases or cycles of a campaign rather than steps because each of them embodies a cluster or series of activities related to each of the other five elements.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love

Loading posts...