Remember "She Won", my Jan. 23 post? Well, I caught sight of a wooden tile with Okinawan art she made with John 8:12 (n the Okinawan main island dialect) on the back. I wanted it so bad (to be completely honest, I didn't really understand what she'd done. She mentioned something about burning the calligraphy into the wood, but I'm not familiar with that medium at all). I wished our stay in Okinawa was longer than the few weeks we'd scheduled so I could have time to really see what she did but knew we'd have to go back right away. The week before we were to return, she GAVE it to me!
That day, my cousin Rumiko's late husband's younger sister, Kuniko, was visiting, who could read and pronounce the dialect the way it is sounded among the islanders. Music has been put into the dialect but not yet the entire Bible, she said. Yet we can see God's life has worked such that those who've found Him, have not had to walk in darkness any longer!
