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A Father and A Son: sharing our hearts together

2009/03/14 Life in Japan, My Story, Raising Kids No comments
Father-son

Father-son

Yesterday was one of the most memorable day in relation to my son, Samuel. There was a writing project to submit to one of the homeschooling meeting. He did what he could and there were lots of suggestions. He took it well, but he wanted to do his own way.

This broke open his heart about what he wanted to say in the past 7 years of his life with us. While Ayumi had a class to teach English, both Samuel and I were in the room sharing together as a father and a son. He shared for the first time his heart out. Lots of crying together as I listened to his heart. Why he acted the way he did was very understandable. He had this weight on him for a long time. Lots of his sharing brought about my mistakes in dealing with him. I had to ask for forgiveness to Samuel and he forgave me. We prayed for each other and big hug was given to each other.

He has grown up so much and we have become buddies and he released all his burdens to God and me.

It seemed that we were starting something together and it was a new beginning.

Abaham Lee@Gospel House

Hokkaido’s Spiritual Root

2009/03/13 About Hokkaido, About Japan No comments

When I first arrived in Hokkaido, it was for my wedding preparation and greeting to my wife’s family. But when I came back to Japan later in 1995, it was to pray for the mega-city, Sapporo. During this 1 full month of prayer journey, I began to understand what was causing what was obvious in the spiritual realm from my study of the history of Hokkaido.

Ainu Couple

Ainu Couple

One of the first thing that was very obvious was the relationship with the native Ainu people. They were mistreated by Japanese and forced to abandon Ainu language and culture replaced by Japanese and Japanese culture. This deeply wounded Ainu people. Now most of Ainu are not 100% Ainu anymore since they are mostly inter-mixed with Japanese and carry Japanese names. When you meet them on the street, you may not recognize them as Ainu unless they have Ainu’s facial structure on their faces. Just like Hawaiians in Hawaii, they are not pure any more.

This dark history of early settlement in Hokkaido from main island of Honshu caused deep root of spiritual darkness. Many of them were cheated by Japanese in their trade since the Ainu did not keep accounting often. Many promises were broken and finally the war between them was final blow against them for the total surrender.

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