Mother's Prayer

We had a Sunday worship service in a Korean church in Manhattan as usual this afternoon.

After the service, it's always fun to share about each other's hot news.

Today a Japanese lady who is married to an American talked to us about her son who wishes to go to university.

She had shared her heart-aching story about her son a couple of times before.

However, that son received training as a Hockey instructor and started coaching children, she said.

He had believed Jesus but stayed away from church for a long time,
but he said he would be coming to church.

This is the answer to the prayer his mother has prayed tearfully for a long period of time.

I pray that will be fruitful.

Creation

The scripture I have meditated on today:

“For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—
his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen,
being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.” (Romans 1:20)
　
It says that when we see God's creation, every living thing,
we can understand what God is like.

Look at the sky, the sea, plants, animals, humans, and all the activities of life.

Even looking at my own body functions,
they are really well made, amazingly made!

When I meditated on those things once again,
I praised God's immeasurable wisdom and greatness.

Still, He loves me.

Water Leak

Water had been dripping from a faucet of the washbasin, and it started to trickle.

To fix that, my husband said that the pipe under the kitchen sink needed fixing first.

He also said it's better to have the toilet fixed, too, to flush well.

He explained to me what exactly were wrong with these three places,
so I could tell a plumber about them.

I seriously listened to him explain
and had him tell me three more times to make sure I heard right.

I prayed in advance that I could explain to the plumber about the problems well
and that he would do the fixing right away and that it wouldn't take many days.


On that very morning, the plumber was in our apartment for another work!

As I had a chance to tell him about some problems of mine,
he came to our room right away to check.

As he was checking out our water problem, he asked my name and said to me, hearing it,

“You're a Japanese, aren't you? I'm a Chinese Philippine.”

Ｉ've never heard such a combination before. Anyway, we are Asian after all.


He said that he could come only next Saturday, but I decided to ask him to do the fixing,
because an estimated cost was reasonable.


However, on the afternoon of the same day, I found the pipe leaking under the kitchen sink.

I called the plumber to ask him to come the following day for the first aide at least.

However, he said to me, “I'll be there!” and hanged up.

He came to our apartment room and fix the leak in 10 minutes.

As he was about to leave, he said to me, “I'm coming next Monday. Take care.”

I wondered if he had told me he would come next Saturday.

Anyway, I like that much better.


It has been a long day, but I really thank God who answered my prayer
and gave me lots of help throughout the day.

Cosmetics

I better stop sticking to Japanese cosmetics.

It's almost time to find ones that will suit me in the U.S.

I went to check out in a super market, standing in front of the cosmetic shelf and staring at products.

I found a cream with a label saying, “Timeless skin – Visibly reduces wrinkles.”

It is too good to be true with only $5.00 worth cream of 300 grams' content.

If it's no good, I thought, I can use it for feet, and I bought it to try.

The result is not bad at all. (Note that wrinkles will not fade.)

It’s really nice to find that probably cosmetics are cheaper in the U.S. than in Japan.

Later that day, I was reminded of the scripture:

“But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness,
and all these things will be given to you as well.”(Matthew 6:33)

I prayed that I could put Jesus first because all things would be given.