The past couple weeks I had to rethink why I have any presence on social media at all. For Hive it was clear that I met a couple of cool friends and creators and want to support their efforts and also had fun collecting crypto along the way. But what am I doing on Facebook. I started that account years ago but totally disagree with where the company is going. It is like a tug of war in there from the left and the right. It is the same company as Instagram but I don't feel the tugs on Instagram. Probably because Instagram doesn't allow links in posts so spamming is more difficult.
On youtube I posted my English class videos under 김치쌤 and kids all over the country used them to study English during the pandemic.
Among all the videos, kids liked the singing videos. It is the relaxed American voice these kids liked. They said that the education videos they get are just cramming information. They want some time to practice and relax. I made this song a year ago, but there are still hundreds of kids listening. It's based on a country hymn and I changed the words to fit the textbook. They would rather have anything original than study from the textbook.
As I thought about what I can really do to help in the pandemic it is to provide a storehouse of the word of God. Although it has been out for almost a decade there aren't so many good recordings of the new NIV version of the Bible. I challenged myself to record a little each day to finish the whole Bible in three years along with the Daily Bread passage.
Here is one example:
Editing the audio to fit the passage takes more time than I had accounted for but it is still reasonable as each passage takes about one hour from recording to publication. I know there are people who appreciate this. One stay home mom told me:
These videos would not have been possible without the help of Dpend's “Drink from the Spring.” This song provides a meditative background which fits almost any scripture.
Fine, don't take my word for it, visit his sound cloud yourself:
https://soundcloud.com/user-872607300/drink-from-the-spring-audio
Anything that comes out of that spring is classic.
There is a river of life flowing out of there.
