There. The next paper I looked at...was a short thank-you letter. How nice. I'll keep this! Wait--I felt a little jab in my back. I know people talk about how letters like this are good for when you're feeling down, but isn't that
Jun 29, 2025
EXCESS BAGGAGE
Jun 28, 2025
JUDGE FAITH
"In your entire life, whenever you got in a tight bind, you called on one person for help, and that person was always there for you," she reminded the defendant. And, "You can tell she's done some things she's not proud of, but it's obvious she loves you and she has nobody else in her life;" the plaintiff was told, strongly urging re-establishment of bonds before sentencing was passed. I honestly do not remember what it was; it was eclipsed by the importance of their renewed trust relationship with each other.
In another situation, the court case was put on hold completely. "I want you to hear somebody." A person who almost messed up his life unalterably came out from the back and shared candidly of his experience, with the happy result of having the formerly callous teenage defendant apologize to and hug his mother, tell her he would change his ways. He was in a posture then to accept any judgment handed down from the bench. No, I do not remember what happened here either.
Some think of God as the "Judge in the Sky". I guess that can be scary if you know only judges that treat the law as sterile, unfeeling means of executing justice. But if you know God--like Judge Faith--who cares about extending our love-trust relationships and thinks it's worth the time to salvage individuals' lives; well, that kind of Judge doesn't look half as frightening.
He DOES declare principles of absolute truth. But the trust relationship with Him, the hope in the new future centered in Him practically eclipse all else.
Jun 23, 2025
TIMED DRAWINGS
Actually, I don't know if even Rembrandt or Van Gogh would've created their works of art in 10 minutes.
Jun 20, 2025
DON'T NEED THEM!
She is the sister with whom I would go up on our Ojana house rooftop--it doesn't snow in Okinawa, so they're flat--and we sat up there and played the ukulele and guitar and sang for hours.
"Long, long ago in a far away place Rough rugged timbers were raised to the sky... It only takes a spark to get a fire going...For those tears I died."
Janice is the one who was with me...I just realized she was with me when I had my first "grand mal" epileptic seizures when I was 14 in that Ojana house, and
Wait...this was supposed to be a post for Janice's birthday. How did it end up being about Kinya?
Jun 19, 2025
"JUST DO IT YOURSELF!"
Jun 14, 2025
FISH EGGS
And the Bible Conference and Bible School graduation Joyce went to, I was able to see online. Someone I noticed viewing proceedings via ZOOM was Kaoru Kurokawa, who had been in Bible School the same time as my husband Kinya.
For now, we just need to give out fish eggs...I mean, we need to be faithful.
Jun 8, 2025
They that were afar off are made nigh
Can I call on you for more prayers again?
Jun 4, 2025
BEARDED LADY
Today is Yusei's 4th birthday. My prayer is that he wouldn't do as I did working himself silly with efforts to make life succeed, but one day find a Heavenly Father to call His own so that he too would know a smile that could never be taken away from him.