Many years ago I came to Japan and I hated it. I couldn't leave fast enough back to my mission field of Communist China. Though wonderfully clean and organized and polite... Japan was also spiritually cold and dark and lifeless.

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Through events out of my control I wound up having to stay in Japan. That was 1985. For years I just wanted to run... but then it dawned on me.

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I had something these people really needed... the Lord's love and light and warmth and kindness and hope and salvation. I realized that if I was in a more Christian country, my simple little sample of His love would probably mean very little... but here it was treasured. Years passed... decades passed... and now old and gray I thank God that I could have had the privilege and honor to live and witness here.

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What seemed like the greatest curse of my life... has turned out to be my greatest blessing.

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Freely We Have Received... Freely We Should Also Give.

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You Are The Light Of The World... A Candle Set Upon A Hill Cannot Be Hid. Matthew 5:13-20

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Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. --- For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it. Mark 8:34 & 35

January 10th

Bloom Where You Are Planted

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