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Watanabe MS Birthday
Watanabe MS Birthday
with courage, and ask God to accept them. Since I received this
message of Kyoshu-sama, I thought a lot by myself on how to
offer my joy and gratitude to God, to be accepted by God. After
much thinking, I came to a certain conclusion or idea, and I
shared it with Kyoshu-sama, who said, Thats a good idea.
Since Kyoshu-sama said it is O.K., I would like to relate it to you,
and I would like to put it into practice, with you.
It is called practicing the thought of gratitude or
expressing our feelings of gratitude. Whatever we come into
contact with, such as other people, or even the sunshine, water,
air, mountains and rivers and trees and plants, even a single
flower, God gave life to them and God prepared them so that they
can nurture and nourish our lives. Therefore, we can express our
gratitude to them with the words, thank you.
What I am proposing now to say thank you to everything
we encounter, is different from our regular phrase of greeting,
thank you, which we use casually and as a custom. Kyoshusama said today, Words belong to God. We can use words not
as empty words, but as really living and powerful words. If we
put our real feelings of gratitude strongly into the phrase thank
you and say it, then, these will become really living and powerful
words.
The Japanese word for thank you is arigato, which
originally comes from the expression impossible to exist or it
rarely exists, or it is a miracle that such a thing happens. It
implies gratitude to God.
There is a gift shop in front of this Hall of Worship, and there
is a very interesting book for sale at the store. The title of the
book is Messages from Water. It is a collection of pictures of
frozen crystals of water in many different forms. The pictures
show that beautiful and benevolent words create beautiful
patterns of water crystals. Human bodies, and bodies of animals
and plants, are mostly water, and vibrations of beautiful words
have a good effect on water.
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