Story of the principal
"Stay at my house"
2009-12-01
Four red big candles are put up in the hall of the star of the dawn. Preparations for Christmas finally began. Not only I celebrate the day of Christmas on December 25, but also the Christian tradition values the run-up (the Advent). With the step of the preparations, by one lights a candle. And, during this period, the exercise of the Saint drama on Christmas seems to be often carried out at the Christian school. The exercise of the Saint drama remembers the story that I heard before.
"Christmas at a certain church. The preparations for Saint drama began. Only the boy with mental disabilities did not have any position while each cast was decided smoothly. The teachers made a position for him. In people taking care of the barn inn with it, lines are only one. And it was the position who pointed to a barn. The boy practiced every day for joy. It is also the day. The Saint drama goes, and Joseph and the Maria who have finished being tired from a back in the setting sun appear. I arrived at the entrance of the inn where that boy stood. "Good evening. Please put us up. A baby seems to be born."
It is finally the turn of the boy. In the coulisse, a teacher and parents grasped sweat in a hand and watched it with the feeling that I prayed for. "There is no room with the crowdedness." And I pointed toward the barn. Well, it was over safely. It was good. Everybody felt relieved relievedly. However, while an overflow cried, tears followed the eyes of the boy who saw off Joseph and the Maria who walked sadly to a barn after two and cried. "Do not go. Do not go to the barn. Cold. Stay at my house. Using my bed, give birth to a baby. Give birth to Jesus in a warm place." The Saint drama has stopped it. However, the impression that was deeper than what kind of Saint drama reached the heart of all.
At the night when Jesus was born, there was not even a place appropriate for one human being being born there. Jesus lives in our heart and, for self-interest and selfishness, meets our heart that became small for love and joy and hope firmly and expects that I am with us. However, many people shut the door of the heart how long and will be to have refused a yes. It may be said that Christmas is a day appropriate for making up the mind to answer a wish of this yes.
Will a sincere cry of that boy to "stay at my house" be to have delighted a baby and the parents born at night on Christmas how long?
Principal Kinuko Asahiro