When I was young, at a certain time every year, some men carrying a net bag dug out something from the front hill of Wolmyeongdong and went down taking it with them.
I did not know [what it was] because I was young.
When I found out later on, song-i(matsutake)  mushroom, which is very expensive, had been produced [there] as much as to fill up a big net bag; so those who knew it rejoiced and dug and took them.

From the following year, knowing that fact, my father dug and brought home the song-i mushroom before people coming from other regions, so we could eat it every year.
As for me, even while eating that expensive song-i mushroom, I wondered, ‘Why do we eat this? It has no taste.’
If you eat it without knowing, even that expensive food has no taste.

Later on, when I was developing Wolmyeongdong, a person from Seoul gave me a gift, saying that he brought something valuable, for his son was hired to a high-level official position. It was song-i mushroom.
He said he paid thirty dollars per mushroom at that time.
When I ate it then, it was so delicious.
It was delicious because I was eating knowing all about it.

You must follow, knowing who the Savior is and believing and loving them; then you will follow valuably, while being elated and rejoicing.

- From the morning message on November 16, 2013 -

내가 어렸을 때, 해마다 때가 되면

월명동 앞산에서 남자들이 망태를 메고 뭘 캐서 가지고 갔다.

나는 어려서 몰랐다. 후에 알고 보니,

그 비싼 송이버섯이 해마다 한 망태씩 나오니,

아는 자들은 기뻐하며 캐 간 것이었다.

다음 해부터는 나의 아버지가 이를 알고,

타지에서 오는 사람들보다 먼저 송이버섯을 캐 와서 늘 먹었다.
나는 그 비싼 송이버섯을 먹으면서

‘맛도 없는데 이것을 왜 먹지?’했다.

모르고 먹으면, 그 비싼 것도 맛이 없다.

그 후 월명동을 개발할 때 서울에서 한 사람이 자기 아들이

고위 관직에 합격됐다고 하면서

귀한 것을 사 왔다고 하며 선물로 줬다. 송이버섯이었다.

그때 당시 한 개에 3만 원씩 주고 사 왔다고 했다.

그때 먹으니, 그렇게도 맛이 있었다.

다 알고 먹으니 맛있는 것이었다.

구원자도 누구인지 알고 사랑하고

믿고 따라야 가치 있고, 기쁘고, 즐거워하며 따른다.

- 2013년 11월 16일 새벽잠언 중에서 -