Spirit of a Man with a Red Cap on
When an essayist in Japan felt psychologically uncomfortable, he went to a hospital to be checked by a psychiatrist, though it was not the first time to consult the medical doctor.
The psychiatrist said to his patient, "Your condition might be related to the incident that your mother died early in this year."
The essayist had once told the psychiatrist about the death of his mother. So, he said, "In the early morning of the day when my mother died, I had a dream that my mother died without knowing that she would die in the day. Do you believe such spiritual epiphany?" The doctor replied:"I don't know." But the patient saw a face of a friend in the face of the psychiatrist.
When the essayist was leaving the hospital, he saw a man with a red cap on coming at the entrance. As the hospital was operated in an open ward system, he suspected that the man might be a hospital inpatient. Then to his surprise, the man with a red cap on suddenly extended his hand to him, saying, "Yeah!" in a high-spirited manner So, in a natural manner, the essayist extended his arm to shake hands with him, saying himself, "Yeah!"
Later, his daughter living and working in New York happened to come back to Tokyo. Then, she faced a trouble in returning to the US, since some immigration rule of America was changed. She had to spend several months in Tokyo, arranging her reentry and filling out necessary applications.
Finally, her application was accepted. Now she could fly back to New York. But her father, the essayist, could not see her off to an international airport. He had to make a business trip to some local place in Japan. So, when he started to go out leaving in the house her daughter who would soon fly away during his trip, he wanted to say farewell to her. He extended his hand to her, saying, "Yeah!" in a high-spirited manner. She looked puzzled for a moment. But she also extended her hand to hold the hand of her father, saying, "Yeah!"
So, a young Japanese woman came back to New York with spirit refreshed, though she never knew that the spirit she had been handed to by her father came from a hospital inpatient with a red cap on in a certain mental hospital.
Indeed there is nothing useless in this world that was created by God.
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Mar 5:27 When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment.
Mar 5:28 For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.
Mar 5:29 And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.