In a Mother's Diary After Losing Her Son... "He Went to Heaven, but the Body Was Too Hard to Bear"

Typhoon Hin Nam No Flooded Underground Parking Survival: Mr. Kim's 'Faith Diary' Revealed

Diary of Mr. Kim who survived in the underground parking lot flooded during Typhoon Hin Nam No.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] #. The water rose rapidly, and I couldn’t open the car door. Ju-yeong opened the car door and saved me. Six people tried to find an exit, but I couldn’t go, so I said, “Ju-yeong, you live at least,” and let him go. Ju-yeong said, “Thank you for raising me, Mother,” and left.

On the 6th, during the approach of Typhoon Hinnamnor, a woman in her 50s who barely breathed through her nose and mouth touching the ceiling of the flooded underground parking lot survived and later revealed her tense survival moments in a diary.

Kim, who lost her teenage middle school son, wrote a diary from her hospital bed that contains her ‘spiritual experience,’ faith, and longing for her son during the life-and-death disaster as a Christian believer.

Kim, who sent her son back after he came to move the car, had to let go of her son instead of her own life after a battle lasting more than 12 hours. Due to inflammation caused by rainwater deeply penetrating her lungs, she is still hospitalized. She was unable to attend her son’s funeral a few days ago.

Kim, who carried the physical pain and separation from her son deeply in her heart, wrote down the situation at the time of the accident with a pen in her church notebook.

“While being swept away, I grabbed a pipe. Staying there, I caught a lost slipper in my hand and used it to block the water entering my mouth and nose, enduring and praying to God.”

Kim wrote that during her prayer, she heard her son’s voice saying, “Mom, Mom, Mom, I love you.” She said that as the water receded a little, she sat on one slipper placed on a small pipe and held onto the ceiling light, enduring.

On the 6th, when the typhoon hit, Kim was trapped in a flooded underground parking lot while going to move her car at an apartment in Nam-gu, Pohang, and was rescued after being missing for about 12 hours.

After parting with her son, she wrote in her diary that she did not realize so much time had passed due to continuous prayer and spiritual communication. Then, she had to hear about her son’s life or death in the hospital ICU.

“It was very hard to hear news about my son.”

Kim, who said she saw three visions of her son Ju-yeong, endured it as the will of heaven but ended her diary asking for the strength and grace of heaven to bear “the sorrow of the flesh, which is too hard to endure.”

Pastor Cho Hee-wan of Changwon, who has ties with the mother and son through missionary and volunteer work, said, “Deacon Kim and her son Ju-yeong devoted themselves to missionary work and volunteering for others,” and “Their faith was so deep that they went on short-term volunteer work to Islamic lands where no one worships.”

Pastor Cho also recalled, “When I saw Ju-yeong during previous volunteer work, he followed his mother well and was a child with an angel-like kind personality.”

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