Dear friends,
This website is fixed, and now I can post images as usual.
Now, the photo below — A little girl beside a Christmas tree, yes. Yet please note she is a Muslim.
This photo implies this Muslim girl is living in peace with some Christians (and Muslims as well, of course), somewhere in the Middle East. (I will withhold her name and residence to disable anyone from identifying her.)
She is also living in peace with some Christians in Tokyo as well — including myself. We, the fostering parents, have been financially supporting this girl for years now. In addition to sending her money for her education and living, I send her beaded accessories I make.
This time, I sent her a ring of beads, as you see in the photo (her right index finger). The ring’s major motif, a heart in light blue, looms larger here than it actually is.
When someone invited me into the fostering group, I intentionally chose a Muslim child.
I did believe it should be quite meaningful for a Christian to foster a Muslim daughter, in our world today, with her Muslim faith respected (NO proselytizing. Her faith is respected!)
Yes, the message is plain to see — countless Christians yearn to live in peace with Muslims as their brothers / sisters in the *God of Abraham.” If you are a Muslim, please keep this plain fact in mind — countless Christians respect your faith and live in peace with you as their brother / sister. Please do not think people like Donald Trump are “typical” Christians. Please do not be fooled by an absurd “eschatology of hatred” spread by some terrorist groups. Our God does not need any weapon to accomplish the salvation of our world.
I usually do not talk about “good work” like this in public, following Matthew 6:1-4. Yet in our world today, I intend to call for peace here.
Needless to say, “Atelier anastasia” is my little business for profits, yet I do make some accessories for non-profit purposes as well. Literally, I’m “saying my beads” for peace!
Somewhere in the Middle East
