Divine Comedy 2007 (XXIII)
[Comédie Divin 2007 - XXIII]
1. Reflection in the Week
Pro 10:29 The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
Pro 10:30 The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.
Pro 10:31 The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
Pro 11:1 A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Pro 11:2 When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
2. Kind French
A Japanese tourist to Lyon in France was especially treated kindly by local people.
One old French woman even gave her a ride on a car for looking around the city, saying: "Didn't people in Paris turn nasty to you? Paris is not what France is all about. French are essentially kind people."
http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1210426817
3. Kind Americans
A Japanese tourist who had traveled alone by car along Route 66 in the Bible Belt of the South in the U.S. told, after his homecoming, his friend that he had found local people there were all kind and law-abiding, though he had expected that he would encounter harsh racial discrimination due to his color of the skin (probably which must be a reason for his traveling to the U.S. South so as to confirm it).
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/antonian/20070928/1190949430
4. Kind Germans
A Japanese student who was studying in France traveled to Germany with her friend from Japan in the summer of 2001.
They were glad to find that Germany was safer than in France where some people had often bothered them by speaking to them (probably since the two looked attractive or easy to cheat).
But, one day in Cologne, when they were walking up a broken and halted moving-staircase, two strange German women on a lower floor began to shout at one of the two Japanese.
The Japanese student thought that the German women must be angry probably because a bag she was carrying on her back with its cord crossing her chest askew as she was too tired to carry it by hand must have hit them.
When the German women found that the two Japanese travelers could not understand the language, they started to walk upstairs to them so alarmingly to the young Japanese women.
So, the Japanese student was prepared to apologize to them; but her friend recently from Japan found the bag was open in a suspicious manner.
The two German women were about to tell her on the very fact.
They eventually kindly led them to a railway police office, since the Japanese student had been robbed of her purse from the bag by a pickpocket.
http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~hanzai/koln.htm
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Now, what country do you think has pleased God more?
I hope Japanese people act wisely enough to be kind to Muslims and other Asians traveling in Japan, if they do not look like raffine French, rich and nice Americans, or conscientious Germans.
(Indeed, Jesus Christ said no to go to foreigners' ways.
Truly, Lao-tze said that the farther you travel, the less you comprehend.
That is why Jesus Christ never ordered to make any pilgrimage.
Yet, I don't feel like blaming Japanese Major League Baseball players, since the Boston RedSox has won the World Series. )
"Jesus Healed a Paralyzed Man"
(Jesus heilt einen Gelähmten)