I wasn't sure about posting this one. I posted a similar one a few days ago.
I started drawing this picture, but after I got done with the hardest part--my stepmother's portrait, I was exhausted. I colored it in, showed my sisters, and they thought I could leave it and see how I felt. It was fine by itself, they felt.
But the longer I left it alone, as they say in Japanese, やっぱり I had to finish it...so this is the rest of it.
My sister Joyce lived on F1 of the house in Okinawa my Dad built. When my stepmother was well enough to live at home, she often phoned her from F2. Joyce ran up those stairs in the picture to tend to her needs. The picture I drew suggests that her next meeting with our stepmother will be a little higher than at the room at the top of the stairs. The lilies? We found a placard our stepmother kept on her study desk as a reminder to pray for a Bible Study in mainland Japan (Marunouchi) she led in 1970, called the "Sayuri Kai" (Lilies). Yes, she now has a resurrected body by given to her by the Lord Himself.
I wonder what it's like.
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| "Satoko, Satoko" (Joyce's Japanese Name) |
