Beauty

Japan is well known all over the world for their love of beauty and their attention to detail.  We have lived here for over twenty years now and every year we are treated to a blazing display of awesome cherry blossoms.  Streets lined with trees.  parks filled with celebrating people who come out just to sit under the trees and drink of their God given  beauty.  Almost every school has a cherry tree in its grounds.

Here you see one lone tree in a street near our centre in Tokyo.  One year they had a special on TV where they netted off one large tree and collected every single petal, mounted them on boards just to see how many petals one tree would produce.  Food is also an art form in Japan.  I was attending a wedding of a fellow Englishman to a Japanese lady and at the reception I just had to photograph the dishes we were served.  Most of them looked too beautiful to eat but somehow I overcame my awe and consumed everything except the plate in good old western tradition.

Japanese meals consist of several small plates and dishes. Each work of art is laid out exquisitely before your eyes so you enjoy the  detail and excellence of the display which enhances the joy of  the taste amd makes the meal very memorable.

As you can see I very much enjoy the creativity of the Japanese and their God given ability to  put so much effort and time  into the details that surround their daily life.    I often reflect and give thanks to God who surounds us with so much beauty  and detail in the world around us.  Every sunset is a masterpiece painted on the canvas of the sky for us to enjoy and then the next day another one comes to prove again that the heavens do show us the glory of God. The earth does show us His love of beauty and attention to details.  The Japanese people also show these same traits of their Creator.