Sorry it's not the greatest photo technically/artistically for this PBLOG entry. However I just wanted to share this one, because it is something that I've noticed in Japan, little signs that God is a work here even when others think He isn't. Sometimes it can be a contemporary Christian song that starts playing in a shop, cafe, or restaurant (in English) just at the right time when I or someone with me needs it. Other times it can be something written on a billboard or a building that relates to something in the Bible.
The story behind this one was that Ritsuko and I took a walk around the area after we had dropped off our Australian Drivers licenses to get translated by the JAF (Japan Automobile Federation). We came across this apartment building. The Japanese underneath it actually says "Kyoto Imperial Palace" because this building is opposite the Kyoto Imperial Palace grounds. Since then I've seen another building with "Noah's Ark" on it, in another location in Kyoto. I'm not sure if it's the name of a company who builds the apartments, or it has some other meaning. All I know is that God used it to encourage me at the time.
The other thing is all of these signs are in English (although Dad saw one of a portion of the Lord's Prayer in French, while he was here) and not Japanese. So I feel I have to be the messenger along with Ritsuko to Japanese people, who by and large seem to be ignorant of the existence of the creator God, while His signs seem to come up everywhere for me.
BTW a few days later Ritsuko and I went to the Licensing Centre with our translations, plus our Australian Drivers Licenses, Passports, Expired Japanese Drivers License (for Ritsuko), etc. and after a lot of Red Tape, Paper Chase, Rubber Stamping (especially for me), we both got our Japanese Drivers Licenses.