MacroBlogInk: on prayer and fasting
Posted 03-22-2008 at 07:23 PM by Caroline
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 later--St. Francis Xavier, the very first Christian to set foot in Japan. After thirty years of preaching, he died there.
It is his spirit, his absolute confidence, that delivers us from illness and catastrophe. Some call it faith. I call it comprehension of the Unique Principle, the loving acceptance of the Order of the Universe."
On this, the day before Resurrection is celebrated and Spring is just upon us in this part of the world, I pray that that spirit and absolute confidence deliver all afflicted in body or soul, including myself. I am grateful that for now, at least, a Spirit moved me to write and resurrect this blog again.
With a Macro-Spring Into Life,
Caroline V. Ritter
"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 later--St. Francis Xavier, the very first Christian to set foot in Japan. After thirty years of preaching, he died there.
It is his spirit, his absolute confidence, that delivers us from illness and catastrophe. Some call it faith. I call it comprehension of the Unique Principle, the loving acceptance of the Order of the Universe."
On this, the day before Resurrection is celebrated and Spring is just upon us in this part of the world, I pray that that spirit and absolute confidence deliver all afflicted in body or soul, including myself. I am grateful that for now, at least, a Spirit moved me to write and resurrect this blog again.
With a Macro-Spring Into Life,
Caroline V. Ritter
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Glad to hearI am always glad to hear that there are more people reading this incredible book You Are All Sanpaku. If you can, share it with all your friends, this is just what we desperately need as nations whose morals and common sense is declining.
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