Prayer "INORI"

Once upon a time, there was a country called the Blue Kingdom.

 

The king of the Blue Kingdom loved his people very much. Therefore, in the Blue Kingdom, everyone was equal in money and food so that everyone could live happily. The people of the Blue Kingdom all seemed happy. And they loved the king. Because the king is thinking very hard to make sure that everyone is happy.

 

One day, however, the King of Blue Kingdom found out that the Green Kingdom, which had become independent from the Blue Kingdom, was getting along with a country that had different ideas from the King of Blue Kingdom.

 

The country with a different way of thinking.

 

It is the Red Kingdom. The king of the Red Kingdom also loved his people very much. It was the same as the Red Kingdom, but instead of equal money and food for everyone, it was a country where those who worked hard got a little richer for their hard work. The people of the Red Kingdom loved their king. Because the king is thinking very hard to make sure that everyone is happy.

 

Now, they're in trouble. The king of the Blue Kingdom told the king of the Green Kingdom not to get along with the Red Kingdom. If so, he said.

 

“Let’s come back to the Blue Kingdom and protect the people together happily again. Blue and green will surely do better than red and green, right? “

 

But the king of the Green Kingdom really wanted to get along with the Red Kingdom. The king of the Red Kingdom, where the people can become richer for their hard work, apparently looked very attractive to the king of the Green Kingdom.

 

The King of the Green Kingdom told the King of the Blue Kingdom, who was like a big brother to him, that he wanted to be friends with both the Blue Kingdom and the Red Kingdom.

 

Then it was time.

 

From the depths of darkness, a messenger of the dark forces quietly approached the king of the Blue Kingdom. Of course, the figure of the messenger from the dark forces is invisible to humans. Softly in his ear, the messenger whispered.

 

--Then, why don’t you try to force yourself into the idea of the Kingdom and make it the way the Blue Kingdom thinks?

 

Now, this is a disaster!

The king of the Blue Kingdom misunderstood that voice as the voice of his own heart!

 

“Then I’ll use all my strength to get the Green Kingdom to change its mind!”

 

It's even harder! This could turn into a war. The news quickly reached the ears of many kings in many kingdoms around the world. Of course, it was reached the king of the Red Kingdom. Even the king of the Red Kingdom had heard the voice of the messenger of the dark forces.

 

--Then, why don’t you use force and make it the way the idea of the Red Kingdom thinks?

 

"Then I'll take it before I get hit!"

 

If a war were to break out, who would we support? One country says blue and light blue are similar, so let’s support the Blue Kingdom. The another country says red and peach are similar, so let’s support the Red Kingdom. And another country says they look like both, but not like either, so let's keep an eye on them.

 

There was a boy who lived in the Blue Kingdom who had no idea that such a thing was possible. He lived happily every day with his family.

 

Then, one day, a letter arrived at our house saying, “Your father has decided to go to war as a soldier” . The mother is crying. The father is also crying. He cries that he doesn't want to hurt anyone. But they had to do what the king asks. Because the king always thinks about the people first.

 

The boy thought hard and hard. He wondered how he could help his father not have to go to war. He thought hard with his small mind.

 

And then, He had a good idea. Boys wrote a letter and gave to a white dove, his friend, who came to the window.

 

"Everybody's a friend. Stop fighting."

 

He wrote.

 

The white dove said, “I’ll tell everyone, so leave it to me,” and told his many friends about what the boy written in his letter.

 

Hearing that, his friend dove sent the boy’s message to a passing migratory bird.

 

The boy’s letter was passed on from one migratory bird to another across the sea, and from that migratory bird to another, and so on.

 

Finally, the day came when the farther went off to war as a soldier. The mother is crying. The boy is crying. The father is also crying.

 

And that’s the time. All the birds in the boy's town, no, in the whole country, no, in the whole world took off into the sky at once. And then they began to speak.

 

"Everybody's a friend. Stop fighting."

"Everybody's a friend. Stop fighting."

"Everybody's a friend. Stop fighting."

 

The father and mother looked at each other. Then he said to the sky.

 

"Everybody's a friend. Stop fighting."

 

His father did not go to war as a soldier that day.

No one in the Blue Kingdom went to war as a soldier.

The great people of the Blue Kingdom did not go to war either.

 

The king of the Blue kingdom was so angry. “Why is there no one here!” But no one came. A king can't fight a war by himself. The king thought about it in his castle, where he found himself all alone.

 

How could this have happened?

Why is there no one left?

 

The king thought about it. Kings of the various countries also thought about it.

 

--I wanted everyone to be happy, and what I was trying to do was not happiness for everyone, was it?

 

When the king murmured this in his heart, the warm rays of the sun began to warmly envelop him through the skylight of the castle and gently spread around him.

 

Then, out of the light, a messenger of the invisible forces of light appeared and whispered in the ear of the king of Iroquois.

 

--Stop fighting, everyone is a friend

 

In this way, the world became a kind and colorful place, where many different countries have different ways of thinking, and many different people care for each other, even if they have never met before.

 

Why do you think the boy's words were transmitted to people?

That’s not because it's a fantasy.

 

This is because the letter that the boy wrote was "words of love" written in a warm and gentle light.

 

"Everybody's a friend. Stop fighting."

 

--May your prayers spread--

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