The holidays are a special time for experiencing joy, family, sharing, renewing and caring. They are also a time for reliving those special memories and histories of our family and culture.

These holidays are a time to stimulate our children with beautiful stories, songs, and activities of the season. Most of all, the holidays are a time to immerse our children in love, and Christmas lights symbolize an even more important light-the light of love for family and friends.

So, as we enter the month of December with its short days and clear, crisp weather, I suggest that we take a few moments to look both forward and back. As we look back at the year 2016, we can reflect upon a year of hard work, challenges, and accomplishments - a year of learning and growing. Please join me in wishing joy, peace, and health to our friends and families as we look forward to the promise of a new year.

On January 16, 2017, we will observe the birthday of an American leader who devoted his individual talent to the advancement of society. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is remembered for championing the causes of the disadvantaged. However, I believe Dr. King influenced the more prosperous members just as significantly.

His crusade was to inform the “strong” links that their individual strength meant little if other links were close to collapsing. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” These words reflect Dr. King’s belief in the “chain” of society. Thus, he believed that a person’s ultimate achievement was to contribute to one’s community, to needs other than one’s own. “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”

겨울 할러데이는 가족, 친척, 친구들과 기쁨을 나누고 서로의 인간미를 새롭게 하고 서로를 돌보는 때입니다. 우리들의 가족과 우리문화의 특별한 추억을 다시 만드는 시즌입니다. 우리 자녀들에게 아름다운 스토리, 노래, 할러데이시즌의 액티비티로 사랑에 푹 젖게하고 크리스마스 빛은 가족과 친구의 애정의 빛입니다.

12월을 맞이하며 올해를 되돌아 보고 또 내년을 맞이하면서 일년동안 열심히 산 것, 인생의 도전, 성취감을 돌이켜 봅시다. 또 배움과 성장의 해였음을 회상해봅시다. 1월 16일은 미국의 리더 마틴 루터박사의 생일기념으로 공휴일입니다.

그는 소외된 소수자의 권익을 옹호했을 뿐 아니라 미국사회의 부유한 사람들에게도 영향을 크게 끼쳤습니다. 그의 두 가지 중요한 말을 소개합니다.

1.“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”“어느 곳의 불의는 모든 곳의 정의를 위협합니다.”2.An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader of all humanity.

“우리 인간은 자신만을 위한 이익되는 일에서 벗어나서 다른 모든 인간의 이익을 위해 살 때까지는 삶을 시작한게 아닙니다.”

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