I just re-read George Ohsawa's chapter 'Prayer and Fasting" in his book *You Are All Sanpaku* and it enlightened me again. Here are the first few paragraphs:

"Four hundred years ago a small ship sailed through a tempest in the Indian Ocean, swirling like a leaf caught in a raging torrent. In that small craft, a young man alone, feverish unto death and suffering, cried out: 'Oh pain, send me more pain, oh, Lord.'

"He lived to preach in Nagasaki months...

Caroline

Since I seem to so rarely post a blog, I just realized I usually only blog here when in a mild mania--before the severe aspects of manic depressive illness and delusions hit. I also do not tend to write here when depressed--mostly because I limit having contact with others when in a down state so as not to burden them with my negative energy. It often takes a whole lot of prayers for me to emerge from the depths of dark depression. I truly desire to have this blog be a positive affirmation of the...

Caroline