This Lent the Hallow prayer app is utilizing "A Song for Nagasaki" as reflection on suffering and hope. This true story of the Japanese man, Takashi Nagai, may be one of the most poignant and beautiful books I have ever read. Takashi is wholly a patriot, in the Japanese sense of the word and a dedicated scientist in the evolving field in the early third of the 20th century of radiology. The death of his mother gives him glimpse into something inexplicable and undescribable, and becomes the foundation of his quest that ultimately leads him to Christianity.
The atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki was less than 300 hundred yards from Takashi's office in the local hospital where he was working August 9, 1945. Through horrific struggles in the center of nuclear devastation, Takashi's faith actually deepens and his strength is often attributed to the rebuilding of the faith, and the rebuilding of Nagasaki. [5/5]
The atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki was less than 300 hundred yards from Takashi's office in the local hospital where he was working August 9, 1945. Through horrific struggles in the center of nuclear devastation, Takashi's faith actually deepens and his strength is often attributed to the rebuilding of the faith, and the rebuilding of Nagasaki. [5/5]
