Street Peddler Becomes Millionaire, Discovers True Wealth

self-made millionaire gene he Kang had finally done it she was living the American dream I made enough money to do everything I wanted I travel I could buy anything that I wanted but ultimately there was something missing growing up in a small South Korean village gene he longed to be more than a rice farmer like her parents her father a gambler an alcoholic abused his wife and their five children my father was never around when we were growing up it was all on my mom and whenever he came home at night you started beating us I was thinking we're the trouble for him feeling as though she were a burden to her parents she tried to prove her worth by being a good worker ever since I could remember I helped my mom to lessen her sadness because my dad was never around to help her and I thought that would have been good enough for her to consider me as a good daughter often gene he prayed to God for a better life I used to pray to him they feel sorry for me and give me some more food what helped me run away one day they kept me going because I I knew that I didn't belong there for some reason and I was getting out in schools she studied hard believing education was her ticket to a better future in America but when she was 16 her parents heard a false rumor that she'd kissed a boy her father slapped her and called her a her mother offered no defense I didn't deserve it I was looking in my mom to help me here and she just she was with my dad's side didn't bail me out didn't believe me and I felt betrayed it hurts me I couldn't I couldn't let it go [Music] to get back at them she started rebelling a few months later she got pregnant and had an abortion she was then expelled from school and became a social outcast I could never go back to school I was nobody and I was ashamed to my parents they don't want to see me no one wants to see me and I said even God it's not here to help me I was totally hopeless so she ran away to the South Korean city of Osan she became a prostitute with plans of finding a husband from a nearby US military base within a year she was engaged and on her way to America I see myself as the finishing college and be somebody have a good job were living a good life when he asked me to marry him of course I said yes but I saw the ticket to America my hope to go back to high school and be somebody she eventually earned her GED and an associate's degree but it wasn't the path to happiness she hoped for over the next 10 years she would divorce three times survive an abusive husband and have three sons at 30 years old she was a single mom with $2,200 to her name I was still nowhere close to where I want it to be but I always thought that I can just get the point A to B I can get out of this poor status I could do something it was then she got the idea to start a business selling costume jewelry and accessories and there was the ticket to build my life and I was a street peddler basically I would literally pull and go next the grocery store and I go through a cart and selling that sell sell sell just as she done as a young girl she asked God for help she even went to church on occasion meanwhile her business grew and within 10 years she had gone from being a street peddler to a millionaire it even helped her reconcile with her parents as soon as I became wealthy I took care of my parents I bought them house I would give them plenty money there was my way of forgiving my parents then tragedy shook her world her 17 year old son was killed in a car accident when I lost my son I got angry at God look all the things I've done to be their mother and struggle and it took my son away why me why mine and one day at that church during sermon I walked out and I knew that I was never going back over the next 18 years she focused on her sons and making money but still happiness eluded her I should have been happy with all the things I was able to do but I had something in me that I was missing and I was searching what is it she would soon find out she became friends with a woman a Christian who had the one thing she didn't joy eventually gene he agreed to go to church with her the sermon was about the prodigal son and there's a big-screen this is a coming home and the theme was run away and I said oh I'm a runaway that story represented me then I wanted to go home I wanted to go home and it worries a home and it was in Korea it wasn't my mother it wasn't my father it was God that I was missing said I want to be I want to be God's child she realized happiness and a sense of self-worth didn't come through riches or achievement but through Christ's love and forgiveness the love that he had me that I cannot buy it was only the God can give to me I was only able to see his goodness when I opened my heart to him and they accepted him to my heart every moment that I was facing the darkest moment that the broken spirit he was there at age 57 gene he earned her bachelor's degree fulfilling a lifelong dream she's grateful and amazed at what Christ did for that little village girl praying for help that God that I spray is the same God right now living in me and this was so special about knowing God you never gave up and he wanted me with him

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Keywords: salvation, forgiveness, danielle thompson, #sal142, shannon woodland, success, testimony, 700 club, god's love, millionaire, financial success, underdog, business woman, poverty-stricken, wealth, getting wealthy, from poor to wealthy

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Length: 7min 29sec (449 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 15 2018