Beautiful insights this young local woman Renee Kingsley is having living in this very different culture and also being exposed to the nuclear/earthquake/tsunami disaster. She writes potently but here are just a couple of short extracts:
We.
Who Are Many.
We don’t all speak the same language. We don’t all come from the same culture. We don’t all come with the same worldview. We don’t all come with the same history. We all don’t come from the same country. We who are many… Many languages many cultures many walks many stories many nationalities…
We.
Who Are Many.
Are One Body.
It is and always will be difficult to cross culture bounds.
Last week one of my English students who is a Buddhist asked the question that goes through all of our minds at some point “If God is so loving and sovereign why do earthquakes like the one in Fukashima on March 11 happen?”