“I have no hard feelings,” said Korean-American Dong Yun Yoon, “I know he did everything he could.” So spoke this heart-broken husband and father who recently lost his wife, two young daughters and mother-in-law, when a Marine Corps fighter jet from the nearby Miramar air base lost power and crashed into a San Diego residential neighborhood. The pilot safely ejected before the collision.
A devout Methodist Christian whose firm faith has obviously not inoculated him from the reality of life’s deepest tragedies, Yoon reached out for help. Turning to others who have suffered “more terrible things,” he pleaded, “Please tell me how to do it. I don’t know what to do.”
Christians have sometimes mulled over the meaning of the often disparaged and misapplied question, “What would Jesus do?” Perhaps Dong Yun Yoon, in his deepest moment of grief has intuited the answer: Could it be that the Man who died crucified expects that we should extend ourselves to help those who suffer in the midst of such inexplicable traumas?
Maybe Mr. Yoon is delivering an authentic Christmas message: That we live our lives applying the meaning of The Greatest Commandment. Curious? Check it out. You can find the succinct wording of that message in any copy of the New Testament and in the Hebrew Scriptures from which it is derived.
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