Dear Rex Tillerson,

Rev. Saigo prayed:

Our Heavenly Father: finally spring has come along with the beautiful season of cherry blossoms after a long and severe winter of this year. Lord, we often wonder why cherry blossoms attract so many people’s hearts beyond cultures, generations and the boundaries of nations. Whenever we see cherry blossoms, two facts come up to our minds: their aesthetic beauty and their transience.

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Douglas Grandt <answerthecall@me.com>To: Rex Tillerson <Rex.W.Tillerson@ExxonMobil.com>Cc: David Rosenthal <David.S.Rosenthal@exxonmobil.com>An enduring message from the transient cherry blossoms

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Despite and in the midst of the fact of their transient life and destiny, they live their given short life to the fullest with all they can do so that their beauty may be gloriously shining out as eternal blessings to those who see them.

“Seize the day.” “Live fully the present moment with your best.” That is their way of life. I believe that it is in such a way of life of cherry blossoms that people finds their irresistible beauty along with their aesthetic beauty. We may call such an inner beauty of cherry blossom as her “existential” beauty.

Lord, through such an image of cherry blossoms’ way of life, you teach us the importance of living NOW with our best. We cannot change the past; we cannot control the future. But it is NOW, this very present moment, in which God is expecting us to choose and do the right thing fully with all our best, trusting and obeying you. Therefore, you said, “Now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.”

Help us day by day, O God, not to drag the past, nor to worry about the future, but rather to value the present moment and to live TODAY to the fullest, not only personally but also socially and in all aspects of our lives as we once again enjoy the beauty of cherry blossoms and celebrate through this lighting the stone lantern ceremony today. We ask all these things in the Name of Jesus Christ.

　Amen.

2014 Japanese Stone Lantern Lighting Ceremony66th Anniversary of the NCSS Cherry Blossom Princess Education and Cultural Exchange ProgramSunday, April 6, 2014, 2:30pmTidal Basin — Japanese Stone Lantern

Sincerely yours,Doug Grandt

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