Awards, Honors and Blessings

This post is about my husband, Okio. This week he received several awards sponsored by Dai-Ichi  Life Insurance Company, the Welfare Labor Ministry of the Japanese government, Asahi newspaper, and NHK. I was able to attend the award ceremony on Thursday, October 20th at Hotel Okura and go with him on Friday to the Imperial […]

For Such a Time a This

I wrote this on Saturday in the shinkansen on the way to Hiroshima, but didn’t get to post it until I got back to Tokyo today. Those words are from Mordecai in the book of Esther 4:14. Several years ago I read Ann Voskamp’s blog and words about the Esther generation. Shortly after that I […]