Over the years I've grown used to hearing my family compared to the Ingalls family of "Little House on the Prairies" and I'm not overly surprised anymore to hear myself compared to Tasha Tudor. (After all, we both wear a kerchief!) So I thought this was just another woman interested in my slightly off-beat appearance.
After some minutes of conversation we established that I was leaving in a few hours, that she didn't have email and that friendship would have to wait for another time. She had recently met another missionary residing at Takayama and so she knew where I would be in the summer.
Still thinking she was attracted by my foreignness I invited her to the Summer English Camp in Aomori. "Oh no," she replied. "I'm not interested in English! It was your "aura" that attracted me. - and I just had to find out more about you." And then, perhaps muttering more to herself, "Lately I seem to be attracted to Christians."
My phone rang - my daughter wondering why I was taking so long to cross the parking lot - and we parted. But I was left with plenty of food for thought! What did she see? What do I have in common with Jane Swan (the other missionary) besides Jesus Christ? How could she SEE that?
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