Amazing Grace through Depression

My American Journey

by Hi-Dong Chai

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Amazing Grace through Depression

My American Journey

by Hi-Dong Chai

Published Oct 21, 2018
211 Pages
Genre: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs



 

Book Details

In 1953, a 16-year-old boy, a son of a Christian minister who was kidnapped by the North Korean Communists in the Korean War, came to America, where highways were reportedly paved with ‘gold’ and money trees grew in abundance. To his great disappointment, he found no money trees. Without a penny from home, he had to work hard and educate himself through school. The first few years, he washed dishes, dug ditches, mixed cement, painted walls, cleaned the restrooms, cleaned the classrooms,... To save money for school, he ate two raw eggs for breakfast and three pieces of Wonder bread with peanut butter and grape jelly in between. Sometimes he felt so lonely in his room that he ate sitting in front of a vanity mirror to keep company with the person he saw in the mirror. But he persisted, received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, established himself as an authority in his field with 52 inventions, 40 publications, and a textbook. But he thought he was a failure because he did not invent an earthshaking device. In 1989, he fell into a major depression. The depression took him to the brink of no return, but the fear of eternal Hell-fire prevented him from crossing the bridge. He decided to seek a therapist’s help. Then in 1990, in the therapist’s office, he experienced God’s Amazing Grace, the inner peace and freedom that he had never thought possible to experience in his life. This inner peace and freedom are still with him to this day. And he decided to share his story with the world.

 

About the Author

Hi-Dong Chai

Hi-Dong Chai, born in Korea and educated in the United States with a Ph.D. in engineering. After retiring from the university in 2002 as professor emeritus, he decided to share his life experiences. In 2012, Guideposts magazine published My Truest Hope, a story of his life in America. In the same year Blossoms and Bayonets, a fictionalized version of his family under Japan, co-authored with Jana McBurney-Lin, was published. In 2013, Inspiring Voices of Guideposts magazine published Shattered by the Wars, a story of his family during WWII under Japan and during the Korean War, in 2013. In 2016, Christian Faith Publishing published Shattered by the Wars with a new title, Sustained by Love thru the Wars. More of his work can be found on his website, www.hidongchai.com.

 

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