To be fully alive is to act; to be fully alive is to contemplate.
- Parker Palmer

星期一, 6月 29, 2015

As the ruin falls (C. S. Lewis)

All this is flashy rhetoric about loving you.
I never had a selfless thought since I was born.
I am mercenary and self-seeking through and through:
I want God, you, all friends, merely to serve my turn.

Peace, re-assurance, pleasure, are the goals I seek,
I cannot crawl one inch outside my proper skin:
I talk of love --a scholar's parrot may talk Greek--
But, self-imprisoned, always end where I begin.

Only that now you have taught me (but how late) my lack.
I see the chasm. And everything you are was making
My heart into a bridge by which I might get back
From exile, and grow man. And now the bridge is breaking.

For this I bless you as the ruin falls. The pains
You give me are more precious than all other gains.

ps. 上面的是最近看書看到魯益師(C. S. Lewis)所寫的詩,說的是他跟上帝的關係,很有意思。
ps2. 暫別了中二和中四的學生,明年若天父許可的話或許能夠重遇;中六的,總有再聚的一日。
ps3. 還是有點忙碌,未到有空和有心情寫文章的時候。不過,想寫的題目卻越來越多了。
ps4. 最近心情還是有點忐忑,有些事要好好面對,但不知道從何入手。
ps5. 盼望能在團契營中重新得力。
ps6. 我正考慮趁暑假的空檔,整理一下這裡的文章,然後跟更多人分享。(現在這裡的讀者據我了解只有十多人)

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