THE INTERVIEW WITH GOD
I dreamed I had an interview with God.
”O! You would like to interview me?” God asked.
“If you have the time?” I said.
God smiled. “My time is eternity. What questions do you have in mind for me?”
“What surprises you most about humankind?”
God answered...
”That they get bored with childhood, they rush to grow up, and then long to be children again.?”
“That they lose their health to make money... and then lose their money to restore their health.”
“That by thinking anxiously about the future, they forget the present, such that they live in neither the present nor the future.”
"That they live as if they will never die, and die as though they had never lived.”
God’s hand took mine and we were silent for a while.
And then I asked... ”As a parent, what are some of life’s lessons you want your children to learn?”
“To learn they cannot make anyone love them. All they can do is let themselves be loved.”
“To learn that it is not good to compare themselves to others.”
“To learn to forgive by practicing forgiveness.”
”To learn that it only takes a few seconds to open profound wounds in those they love, and it can take many years to heal them.”
”To learn that a rich person is not one who has the most,
but is one who needs the least.”
”To learn that there are people who love them dearly, but simply have not yet learned how to express or show their feelings.”
”To learn that two people can look at the same thing and see it differently.”
”To learn that it is not enough that they forgive one another, but they must also forgive themselves.”
"Thank you for your time," I said humbly.
"Is there anything else you would like your children to know?"
God smiled and said, ”Must know that I am here... always.?”
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與神傾談
(Interview with God)
神：噢！你想訪問我？
人：是的！如果您有時間。
神(微笑)：我的時間是「永恆」，你有什麼問題？
人：您觀察人類，有那些事讓您最詫異的？
神：噢！人啦！
在幼兒時總覺萬事無趣，迫不及待的想長大。
長大後卻又希望重返青春的童年。
人啊！總為名利而不顧身體，卻又花下巨金妄想重得健康。
人啊！為何每日為未來而焦慮，卻忘了現在。 如此，你們既沒活在現在,更沒活在未來。
人啊！你們活著時候好像生命永無止境，而當死亡來臨時才覺悟自己的一生重未真正好好活過。
神握著我的手安靜了片刻….
人： 如果您是人間父母，您希望孩子們學到什麼？
神(微笑)：學到雖不能強使他人「愛」你，卻可改變自己成為一個「可愛」的人。
學到人不要彼此比較。
學到富人不在擁有多少，卻在需要不多。
學到兩人間之情感能毀於旦夕，卻需漫長時間去補回。
學到常常練習「原諒」。
學到許多人不知如何表達他對你的「愛」，卻「愛」你至深。
學到雖然面對同一件事，人人可有迥然不同的見解。
學到被他人「原諒」是不完全的，除非你能「原諒」自己。
神(微笑)：學到我就在你的身旁 – 昔在，今在，且永在。
中文翻譯為東海大學校長 程海東先生 翻譯
我第一次看到這篇文章是在高三時
英文老師在單字小考背後的資料
他常常在考卷後面印一些比較輕鬆的英文文章
不過在我看來這篇的意義卻很深遠
當然
不管信不信教
都會滿有感觸的
尤其是 每個人都為了未來來焦慮，卻不知自己活在現在~
