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Story of the principal

At an education lecture about the bond of ko etakoto - God and us -
2016-07-13
 From half past 10 on Sunday, June 19, an education lecture was performed for protectors of star Elementary School of a star kindergarten, the dawn of the dawn. The speaker was Naomi Numano who belonged to the Takarazuka Catholic Church. The contents of the story did not remember at all this one in the which had you come once when, in fact, I was still doing the director of the kindergarten in Onomichi, but only the impression that a story was interesting remained.
  "I supported it together, and the theme on this day was valid together". She worked as a pharmacist at a hospital at the beginning, but I came to do terminal care and hospice care and work of the death counseling, and 32 years seemed to be over while I met with various events.
  The event that own life turned into seemed to be the following thing. When "I began to work, and only grandmothers 65 years or older were in charge of the sickroom which there was by chance in the second year, the miniature shrine of the autumn festival was carried on their shoulder by people of the neighborhood association and went along the side of the hospital. When a sickroom became full of the sounds of a drum and the gong, in the sickroom which entered the instruction of the medicine by chance, six grandmothers were up freely and sat straight on the futon and they put hands together towards the outside and seemed to pray.
The answer that I prayed for when I heard "what did you pray for?" saying "please let it die early" came back. I seemed to think incidentally at time. I seemed to strongly think, "I want to know what kind of life people who lived in illness walked.". The person has what's called heart. I seemed to think that I might talk about nothing to a person without joy and hope. "I forgot to be there, and grandmothers were begun to recite afterwards about the life that oneself lived in. Difference go iga began. I seemed to hear it in silence. Then Mr. Numano learned hospice care and said that it was engaged in hospice care for 32 years.
  While I do the hospice care, I seem to have possibilities to feel it suddenly recently. It seems to be that a family tie becomes weak. When I reach last moments in old days, all the members seemed to be it, but the one does not come during three in the present times, and they do not seem to sometimes come to the parting at all all together even if late by all means if there are three children when they are terrible.
  In addition, there seemed to be such a thing. It was admitted to the hospice an old man for a terminal cancer. After after contacting mother immediately if I asked the one it with "is there not any that I wanted you to do it now?" as it was "to want to see a daughter", contacting the man because it was to say, "I think that the daughter went to meet immediately.", I did it very joyfully and was waiting. However, as a result, there was not the forthcoming thing.
  The daughter stood behind mother who was able to come to the hospital for greetings after a funeral service was over. So I asked the daughter last. "Why were you not able to come?" A daughter when "was born and raised in Osaka, respected father very much. So he took a qualification same as father, and father supported you when he went to Tokyo. However, in severe human relations and severe competition, as for oneself, a heart has got sick. Oneself told own state of mind to father by an email. I thought that an answer came immediately and waited for months. Or I thought whether you would come directly to Tokyo and waited for years. But father did not come of course to meet without giving me the email either. There was not an actual feeling that oneself was loved by father. Therefore it was that the answer that was not able to come to meet came back.
  There seemed to be such a thing, too. There is the person who is at a loss in front of a sickroom and "I am the eldest son of this family, but as I have been disowned by father, I enter and am troubled if I ask it "what happened?" whether it is good." It seemed to be cried for man crying when I said "you thought that you had already permitted it, father entered inside, and why don't you do parting?". Say, "father cried while hitting time, me to disown me." and is gone inside, and in the last last father "well came. Thank you, I was said to have heard that I said and was died from a family.
  When I heard this, a point of the Bible of "the prodigal son" occurred to me. I have been convinced that God who was father really loved us at the same time. Such a bond became gradually thin in the human family, but the bond of God and the human being was closer and has thought some other time when deep.
  Son of God yes that I sent own child to this ground because of the deep love for the human being while people who could not have an actual feeling that oneself was loved for a family heard a story to increase and touched it on the cross and carried our crime on my back and was died. How will we think about love of God who opened the way reviving through a way, death of the help?
  I want to do this July in important January to deepen the bond of God and us.
 
Principal Michiharu Yamaguchi
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