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  An acquaintance died the other day in Tokyo. It was communication after all the funerals terminated in the news from the son of the person passed away. I had the word, "father suffered till the last and died, but the heart thought that it was calm." to me in the one.

 

　In fact, I fought though a wife of the one died several years before 20. A wife was in her mid-40s and thought that I left two children and was suffered very much that it was become dead. But I am invited to the hospital to be present at the last, and the words that were said to be it from under painful breath when I hold the sacrament of the sick are not forgotten.

 

  "I entrust a hand of the master with two young children and must leave. It was very uneasy and cursed God why it became destined such and bore a grudge. But it is said, father of the Ueno church had courage dying of said words. If ask you in silence; "the father state "the person dies by all means, but there is nothing including the nonsense death. This is because God is always arranged in relations with God and me. He/she does not decide something on account of your convenience and we human being and must not forget that it is worked in a deep plan of God." It was God to be worked more than our thought, and it was said, an exercise to entrust all to God was necessary and died in early in the morning two days later only after this being said.

 

  Possibly the master might know my dozens of times, too. Intentions of God included all and might be thinking about there being only God worked more than our thought on the effect all the time after a wife died. And only God thinks that I want to be faithful and was practiced for the effect every day when oneself dies. What kind of; when was hard, might pray that only God made it a principle to do it in loneliness and took it. Therefore "it was calm" in any pains.

 

  The life of the person is vain, but refuses to be separated from the body persistently. It is body and one and but seems to totally think that it is not possible it is far, and to live. However, the thought disappears all when I die. In other words, God is that time when the fire of the life is put out comes over by all means even if how is depth of our thought. The main constituent is always the God side. It is God to take even if I think that I do not want to die so much. I cannot but leave it to God even if I have deep attachment for this society so much very strictly if time comes.

 

  Therefore teaching of the Bible finally arrives in our heart. I sometimes think. There is Christ that an F re-rhinoceros person and law bachelor are criticized, but we who read are always every another person. In fact, these people of a person and the law bachelor of the F re-rhinoceros group covered with deep attachment of the world are us. It is the word that always says this in omeria in the mass in morning on weekdays. God who borrow the name, and lives conveniently properly such as our figure do not feel like.

 

  "Wake up. This is because you do not know what time of day own master is come back through on. Know this. The master of the house wakes if I know whether a thief comes over in when at night and will not let before very my eyes own house break. Therefore prepare for you, and this is because the child comes when I am unexpected." (cf. Matthew 24 chapters 42 sections - 44 sections)

 

  I prepare as I understand it well from this point if it is revealed when own death comes. But it is we human fate not to understand what kind of time it is in what time. In other words, will it be expected that I have no way of preparing? I do not seem to be able to say. Christ is told "to prepare so that time may come anytime".

 

  I am that I practice dying when every day and being allowed to be invited to really prepare in daily life. In the book which told the mental attitude of the samurai called "under the leaves" of Saga, you know what kind of danger waits how every day in a place, and practice dying every day. A para-body try death again and again on a day. What kind of pain is what kind of pain it is if cut with a sword if attacked by a tiger? In that way it is said that the samurais of the Nabeshima feudal clan were the samurais who are not afraid of death.

 

 

Principal Michiharu Yamaguchi