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  There was a book of the one which the work which got the highest award was published in of the original children's stories in the book which had been sent the other day. An author is a person called Yuko Sato.

 

　The title was a work called "left curry and rice". It is a work with one boy having experienced an event of the Great East Japan Earthquake as a children's story. As for the contents, the boy loses parents in a major earthquake and the tsunami which took place while I lived together in families in an instant. The heart of the boy is shut deeply by sorrow. The person comes how many days so that grandmother looks for the boy in a refuge. And I began life together, but was the days when I merely only plopped myself down without drinking without eating.

 

  Grandmother is going to let the boy have a meal somehow, but he refuses that he eats a thing rigidly. One day I give vent to feelings for words to recommend the meal of grandmother. "I say that I do not need it. I shout, I want to eat the rice of mom. Such one day because "a mouthful is all right, eat"; prepared with toiinagaraobaachanga curry and rice. He is recommended many times, and the boy eats the small curry and rice unwillingly.

 

    "Tears began to flow as soon as I had a mouth. It was the tear which flowed for the first time after an earthquake disaster.
    "Grandmother told mother these curry and rice."
    While the tears drank, I included it in another mouthful, a mouth.
    In, as for "mother, all fathers live, too heart."
    It was the smile such as the tearful face that grandmother showed for the first time.
    "Grandmother, I'm sorry."
    I seemed to disappear big cried aloud to overcome all after having spoken."
    A girl called Elena sent video visit to Pope and seemed to ask a question "is it that God did such a (referring to tens of thousands of people having been killed in a Japanese tsunami) thing why?" in that. Pope Benedict XVI at the time is not the difficult word that is theological in an open TV show, "I do not know why God was treated like either. But I surely hear it in a plan of the love of God when answered saying it is after it not to have been to have had it in a good plan accidentally, and it may be revealed.

 

  I did a volunteer in six people of four students and sister and me at a stricken area of Onagawa City in the next year of the Great East Japan Earthquake. Vehicles drained by a tsunami piled up in the shore when an impression at that time thought it "to revive considerably because one year passed", and there was the house where all the families died. Such a family reduced nobody and felt when time stopped for one year. The place where we began a volunteer was such a home. Five families died and pulled the weed which thought whether I served as a search that the body of the 5-year-old boy had not been found yet, and there would be the stature and remembered that I did plucking a root.

 

  It is said that there are the sufferings called "inevitable four sufferings of human being" that I always speak of from 4 in the root of pains. What kind of meaning will you find in concrete pains? It will be with a better left unsaid saw that it suffers to live. We know pains sorrow of the old age, that it is grieving. Each will have the pains of illness if I live, but the question "why must just get sick at such time?" never remains for an individual. And there is the reality that must die when I think that I say death as I cannot receive the death "may own life be over in such a form?".

 

  The death of the person particularly the death of the family leaves a deep wound in the heart of the person at the same time. Firstly "the children's story" which I introduced expresses it definitely. It is often that I live the case of pains. A heart is purified for the first time by crying by this children's story and is over by taking reality of the death of parents.

 

  However, we must not terminate in it. Our life does not terminate in the death all the time as I say. Faith of the revival for Christ brings us hope. Even the pains will let you pile up treasure on heaven and prepare for heaven on this ground.

  Therefore St. Paul in a letter to one of a believer to Thessalonians "be always pleased. Pray consistently. Appreciate anything. This is what God expected from you in Christ Jesus. You must not put out the fire of the soul. You must not make light of words of God. You examine all closely, and be careful with a good thing. Go away from one of every bad potato (from five chapters 16 sections to 22 sections).

 

  In the life not to be able to be pleased with all the time, do not think that Paul to "be always pleased" says a groundless thing. As for being always pleased, heaven can endure pains to go to heaven even if anything suffers in the world to go. Even the pains are because hope as a substitute for the joy is over there.

 

  In a life as for St. Paul "three times having been wrecked. I have drifted on the sea for one day. I often went on a trip and I encountered the difficulty of the river, the difficulty of the thief, the difficulty in the town, the difficulty in the wilderness, a difficulty on the sea and had a hard time and spent it without often sleeping and I starved and longed and I was numb and have been for the cold in nude. (cf. II Corinth 11 chapters 25-27)

 

  It was hope that the aim of the faith revived with Christ who always revived in what kind of hardship. He wanted to convey it, and he would be going to tell the revival of Christ to many foreigners until he was fired in Rome.

Principal Michiharu Yamaguchi