FORGET THE CAMERA

I forgot to bring my camera again! But one result was instead of photographing wildlife after going to the doctor's, Kinya and took the short way back home through the city...which meant stopping to pick up a few things at the stores. We could just put them in the push-cart I now used, I thought, but Kinya decided to use his backpack instead.

One of the stores we stopped in, I told him, was owned by the person who provided our church land. Years back, as a single young man, riding home on a bus after an ongoing stressful work situation, he happened to look out the window and see church lights. He got off at the next stop; attended the meeting (they happened to be holding special evangelistic services); and got saved. (He's the one in the blue.) It was after that that he got married and became owner of a nearby department store, then had a hand in our small group of believers purchasing a plot of land for the new church location.

Recently, I've been reading through quite a bit of things I've written in Japanese about what the Lord's done for me, and I've been trying to put them into digital format too. But I do know I can get carried away doing this reading and writing in the wrong posture and do all sorts of bad things to my already weak back; I need to be careful. BUT one of the things Kinya told me I could pick up at this department store mentioned above...was a lumbar support! I'll put this simply: all the things I've tried in the past really haven't worked. But this one is doing the trick!

In fact, I told my sister Janice it presses just the right spot in the right way and feels so good, it's kind of like a massage chair. The other day, after feeling a little sore after finishing cleaning up the kitchen, I remember wanting to come into the bedroom, not to flop onto the bed and rest, but to sit on that thing and have it press on my back! No, they're not paying me to advertise!