Nagasakibana

Nagasakibana the farther eat southern point. Beautiful black volcanic sand beach. A lighthouse to the left, a shrine behind me and a volcano to the right.

This is Kaimondake, meaning sea gate mountain.

I lit some incense, laid out half the jar I brought, and waited for the waves while reading a prayer she favored.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace

That where there is hatred, I may bring love.

That where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness.

That where there is discord, I may bring harmony.

That where there is error, I may bring truth.

That where there is doubt, I may bring faith.

That where there is despair, I may bring hope.

That where there are shadows, I may bring light.

That where there is sadness, I may bring joy.

Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort, than to be comforted.

To understand, than to be understood.

To love, than to be loved.

For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.

It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.

It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life.