Hello, Everyone. This is Chaplain Sung Kim. I am Deputy CMD CH in the 63d Readiness Division. I pray you are well.

There is an expression among those who exercise on a regular basis, especially athletics, "No Pain, No Gain." The expression basically means that if you are not willing to work hard and suffer a little for your efforts, then you are not going to accomplish very much. The same principle is true in life as…

Hello, and peace to you today. This is CH (MAJ) Patty Jenkins with the 63d Readiness Division.

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            A woman I know recently admitted she is worried about how she will feel when things open up again in Los Angeles, where she lives. The infection rate in LA County has been extraordinarily high and devastating, so the worry about either passing or receiving the Covid virus is significant. Last year she was worried about…

On behalf of the 63d RD,

“We are part of one human family. At our core we have the same human needs and desires. We have the need to love and be loved. We want to know that our life has meaning and that we have a purpose for being here. When we work together as one, what’s possible in our lives, communities, and the world keep evolving. That’s when we know we are all kindred souls.” (Dancing on…

Hello, Everyone. This is Chaplain Sung Kim. I am Deputy CMD CH in the 63d Readiness Division. I pray you are well.

Someone says, “Happiness comes after contentment.” Contentment, or the state of being content, is about peaceful satisfaction. It involves appreciating what you have and where you are in life, rather than wishing things were different.

It seems there are very few people who are consistently content…

On Behalf of the 63d RD, Happy Wednesday,

Spring Gardens

1 Corinthians 3:8-9 Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. For we are God’s coworkers. You are God’s field, God’s building.

Spring Gardening is the best time of the year. This is when I miss my large garden the most sitting on my little balcony on the 4^th floor. Everyone’s yards…

Hello, Everyone. This is Chaplain Sung Kim. I am Deputy CMD CH in the 63d Readiness Division. I pray you are well.

I believe that training is necessary in every area of our lives. How about the arts? No artist performs well without practice. Only through practice is the finest art possible. Training or practice is painful. But without this, you may never find success in life. In any field, education, science, or business…

Hello Everyone, This is Chaplain Sung Kim. I am Deputy CMD CH in the 63d Readiness Division. I pray you are well.

Expectations are extremely influential. Positive expectations can lead to a more positive life. Research has shown that optimists with positive expectations live longer than pessimists. They have less illness, and when they get sick, they recover faster.

Karla Brandau encourages success-oriented people to…

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House Cleaning, Noah Part 3

Genesis 6: 17-21

“Understand that I am bringing a flood---floodwaters on the earth to destroy every creature under heaven with the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark with your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives. You are also to bring into the ark two of all the living creatures…

Hello, Everyone. This is CH Sung Kim. I am Deputy CMD CH in the 63d Readiness Division. I hope you are all doing well.

Recently, I got this email response from our G1 staff: Chaplain Kim,

“You and your staff probably don't get daily thanks and compliments from all of us out here but there have been days that the messages from you and the other chaplains truly got me through the daily struggles we have all been facing…

Hello, Everyone. This is Chaplain Sung Kim. I am Deputy CMD CH in the 63d Readiness Division. I pray you are well.

From time to time, each of us becomes depressed or frustrated as we proceed with the business of living. No one can always be full of cheerfulness in this life. But we do not need to be discouraged no matter how bad our circumstances may appear.

This implies the extraordinarily important quality of persistence…

Hello, and peace to you today. This is CH (MAJ) Patty Jenkins with the 63d Readiness Division.

The remains of Chaplain Emil Kapaun were recently identified and accounted for in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (NMCP) in Honolulu, Hawaii, through Phase Two of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency’s Korean War Disinterment Project.

As part of the 1953 Korean Armistice Agreement, Kapaun’s remains were…

Hello Everyone, This is Chaplain Sung Kim. I am Deputy CMD CH in the 63d Readiness Division. I pray you are well.

Dr Heidi Grant says that no matter how miserable you are feeling at the moment, if you look back, there have surely been events in your life that have made you happy. Maybe the time you bought your first car or the time you received that long-desired promotion.

When good things happen, we feel positive emotions…

Hello, and peace to you today. This is CH (MAJ) Patty Jenkins with the 63d Readiness Division.

I majored in philosophy when I was in college. Of all the general classes I took, it was the one area of study that I thought could hold my interest through graduation.

Our department was small enough that the majors got to know each other pretty well. We even had a flag football team! The capstone of our studies was the dreaded…

Hello Everyone, This is Chaplain Sung Kim. I am Deputy CMD CH in the 63d Readiness Division. I pray you are well.

Happiness is Enjoying the Little Things in Life. It sounds very easy yet it is very powerful. A simple shift of the mindset can create the prettiest smiles on our faces. And make us happy. We just have to stop looking for all the bad in life and focus instead on the small things in life.

Walt Disney says,…

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Facing Our Giants to Heal

A good title to start a sermon is often: Facing Giants In The Land, and then I’d go on and talk about the exterior giants that we face every day that we have to overcome as did David, the Shepherd in the Bible against Goliath. David had to overcome his size, his lack of armor, and his inferior weapon against what was by sight a superior foe in size, training, armor, and…

Hello, and peace to you today. This is CH (MAJ) Patty Jenkins with the 63d Readiness Division.

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            The lens of the Covid-19 pandemic has helped us see more clearly the importance of “ordinary” people who exercise patience and offer hope every day. The labor of sanitation workers at hospitals, grocery store cashiers, post office clerks, and delivery people did not used to inspire much appreciation (or pay). But we…

Hello Everyone, This is Chaplain Sung Kim. I am Deputy CMD CH in the 63d Readiness Division. I pray you are well.

Happiness is literally the number one goal for most people in life. It’s what we’re chasing all of our lives.

That’s why Positive Psychology and the science of happiness is so important. It shows us what really makes us happy and what doesn’t. Knowing that, we can finally create our lives in ways…

“Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a LIFE,”

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 I’m not sure what your conversations with God are like, but I’m pretty sure they are not just like mine. I ask a lot of questions. Some of my questions are not that divine, or elevated in introspection. Some of them go like this: Lord, in your kingdom will cheese make me fat? God, will I hate watermelon after I’m dead as much…

Hello, and peace to you today. This is CH (MAJ) Patty Jenkins with the 63d Readiness Division.

My husband bought me a baseball bat for Christmas. I often fantasize about going to a batting cage and taking out my anger and frustration on a stitched leather ball. I have never been to a batting cage in my life, and worried I would embarrass myself if I failed to make contact. So the fantasy never materialized. But now I…

Hello Everyone, This is Chaplain Sung Kim. I am Deputy CMD CH in the 63d Readiness Division. I pray you are well.

Valerie Bertinelli says that happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There’s going to be stress in life, but it’s your choice whether you let it affect you or not.

How to Choose Happiness Today. Joshua Becker suggested these Practical Ways.

1. Count your blessings. Happy people choose…

Hello Everyone, This is Chaplain Sung Kim. I am Deputy CMD CH in the 63d Readiness Division. I pray you are well.

Valerie Bertinelli says that happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There’s going to be stress in life, but it’s your choice whether you let it affect you or not.

How to Choose Happiness Today. Joshua Becker suggested these Practical Ways.

1. Count your blessings. Happy people choose…

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The Pit Crew Code of Ethics

“What if you made a paradigm shift? What if not keeping your word to yourself was also a violation of your personal code of ethics? Imagine how powerful a shift in perspective this would be. There would be a greater likelihood that whenever you said you were going to do something you would do it…: (Dancing on the River, page 66 by Mark Susnow).

Hebrews…

Hello Everyone, This is Chaplain Sung Kim. I am Deputy CMD CH in the 63d Readiness Division. I pray you are well.

We all want “Happiness…but we are looking in the wrong places. In almost every nation when asked what they want most in life in 2021, people put happiness at the top of their lists.

Singer and diva, Madonna, is one of the wealthiest people in show business and has openly flaunted her self-indulgent…

Hello Everyone, This is Chaplain Sung Kim. I am Deputy CMD CH in the 63d Readiness Division. I pray you are well.

Os Guinness addresses this problem in his book, The Call, saying, “Out of more than a score of great civilizations in human history, modern Western civilization is the very first to have no agreed-on answer to the question of the purpose of life. Thus more ignorance, confusion-and longing-surround this topic…

Hello, and peace to you today. This is CH (MAJ) Patty Jenkins with the 63d Readiness Division.

In Los Angeles, a Blessing of the Animals traditionally takes place every spring on Olvera Street where deep Mexican roots and culture enrich the neighborhood. The Olvera Street tradition began in 1930, but the practice dates back to a 4^th Century saint who blessed cows, goats, chickens, and pigs to promote good health and prosperity…