A Marine in Iraq and His Japanese Father
When you hear some Christmas songs, you may feel like hearing a Christmas story.
All I can say is that Good News is to be preached to poor people. If you are rich and happy, you are not prepared enough.
However, it is one of my opinions I myself in a different occasion cannot mostly stand; Jesus Christ should be far more benevolent.
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According to a certain prominent journalist, once upon a time, a Japanese young man went to America to learn in post-graduate courses. He graduated a grad school and started to work in a branch of the U.S. Government. He got married to an American woman and got a son who grew up and one day, while learning in a university, decided to go into the service of the U.S. Marines for joining a mission in Iraq. He was actually dispatched to Iraq for a mission of the War on Terror, and then afterward came back to America to restart his learning in the university. He graduated and started to work in a certain industry.
One family in America is going to see Christmas this way: a family of a Japanese father, an American mother, and an ex-Marine son with a memory of Iraq.
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In my city, there are a lot of illuminations and displays imitating a Christmas tree. Japanese like Christmas.
Indeed, no family's Christmas in Japan is darkened by a shadow of warring Iraq, which might become possible truly by providence.
I meant that we are very sorry for American families who lost their son or daughter in Iraq.
But, will Iraqi victims allow us to enjoy Christmas?
Or will Jesus Christ persuade them to do so for us?
Otherwise, what should we offer as a sacrifice?
"BY THE MIRACLES THAT WERE PERFORMED"