WRITING...AND POSSIBLY RE-WRITING?

Are there any readers who were around when I mentioned having the Lord's Supper after worship was already over, and a handful of brothers and sisters stayed to do it with me when I'd been late for it? Michael Bess, a brother in Christ, the head elder at his church in Oregon, led that group; and God used him again this past Sunday to encourage me.

I'd written and put up so much online in Japanese, but the rough translation of C.S. Lewis' Screwtape Letters, I'd been rather hesitant about. I saw a professional translator had actually worked on it recently. When I graduated from language school 40 years ago, no one had touched it, and there was no translation app around either, but now...

When I saw this had come out, it rather scared me. Would I get in Copyright trouble if someone spotted my things online? I hurriedly yanked all of my things down, put them in "draft" mode. Whew. No one could get after me for copyright infringement.

But Sun, Michael commented as long as I wasn't selling the work and gave full credit of its authorship being C.S. Lewis as well as adding its actual sale being made elsewhere, he didn't see how I could face any copyright problems.

So...I've decided to put it back up. https://shingen16-25.blogspot.com/

You'll have to keep in mind this is just the attempt of a brand-new missionary who desperately wants a best friend to read an English book which has not yet been translated into Japanese.

1989. I will skip over what happened during that time. There are some unpleasant experiences I don't want to go into or to live over.

I will say, however, I remember writing, writing, and writing and then realizing it was all in English, in a language my friend would not be able to read, so then re-writing it in Japanese. The other day, she s-mailed me and said she'd been cleaning up and found an old book I'd written for her. I'd forgotten about it.

Among the 100+ things I thought I wrote in Japanese the past few years...I wonder how  many were actually written before, in some way? But God was watching the whole time, wasn't He?