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　A graduation ceremony was over safely. There is oneself impressed alone in this certificate investiture every year. I was thinking about six years in during a graduation ceremony in this year to get this one piece of certificate while there were twists and turns when both a protector and the person would be impressed very much when they finally arrived.

 

  It was reported with a newspaper, TV on a large scale the other day that a 13-year-old boy was killed and was able to find it in a riverbed. In the yesterday's news, the 18-year-old boy of the principal offender knew that he testified "that I was popular, and that junior high student whom there was a lot of the friend was envious".

 

  When I think about the life forward, "oneself who is why will not have a friend" "Why can oneself not conclude proper human relations?" "That junior high student has it, and what is the thing which oneself does not have?" "How can you wear anything which that junior high student has?" I was made to think whether it would not be got to々ko. And the children who cannot conclude such human relations increase in the present age.

 

  There were such words in the point of the Bible of the graduation ceremony of this year. If "there are encouragement by Christ, comfort of the love, the acquaintance by "the soul" and love and a heart of the pity even a little, it is the same thought and holds the same love in you, and put hearts together and do thought in one, and please meet my joy.

   You do nothing out of selfishness and vanity and think about a partner with a person superior to oneself each other humbly, and pay attention about not only respectively own thing but also another person.
  Keep this in mind each other. It is seen in Christ Jesus." (letter two chapters one section - five sections to the believer of the church of Phillippi)

 

  It is the point that I chose from the letter which Paul wrote, but a searching examination (I reflect on the small mistake of the heart) to look back toward own day to say how you were concerned with a person today is demanded because I really stare at oneself, and it is the human being that oneself is it in virtue.

 

  A day is only happy for oneself, and there may not be anything that it is no longer happy if I can spend it without worrying. However, the growth of the heart stops there. For days not to be able to spend funnily interestingly, oneself may think it to be unhappy. However, I let the pains bring up a human heart and mature. Therefore I examine the situation that oneself was given closely well and think, and new development will begin when I have a question "what should do?".

 

  I think that a problem of the virtue may be that it may be said to we each one not being able to say only to the human being who caused a case somehow or other. In daily life, I think that it may be a normal human being that begin to think about saying whether you improve it how than you live in jealousy and a bias and hatred in human relations, and you live.

 

  However, the person who does not notice the person who does not live for proper human relations, relations with God may come to run only for self-justification saying "oneself whom the neighborhood that is not oneself has been found in by chance though he who is bad does everybody bad is unhappy as for the bad one.". Such as one lesion which modern society has not the problem only for some people although it is disappointing feel like.

 

  I think about Maria incidentally. As for her, the word "that I kept as a heart deeply" comes out to the Bible through various events a lot. Not only I kept it, but also only think that I was thinking deeply. I think and think, and it is thought that I stand on the thought and it becomes modest and might be going to live for a person.

 

   You must think about own stupidity and weakness and the sinfulness to have a modest heart. What Paul advises us about in the letter to big Phillippi person expressly tells us the minimum matter to finally have a mature heart. It must be it to talk about how there should be it as a human being how I should live in human relations.

 

  We train a heart in this "valley of tears" until you die and we make own heart in modest sense of values of oneself not a thought, the sense of values of the circumference in various events deeply and will have to bring him up. And I feel that there is the need that continues telling it some other time.

 

I want to move forward without spending this Lent idly while staring at oneself present well.

Principal Michiharu Yamaguchi