2022年9月5日 星期一

神的力量,讓人自動繳械 God’s Power Makes People Lay Down Their Arms

 按:這是今天下午發生的真實故事。願神開啟她的心靈,接受主耶穌的愛,撫平內心的傷痛。
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「老師,你會不會跟我說,我是上帝創造的『最完美的精神病』?」學生以苦澀的淺笑,問我。

這是我幾個小時前上課時,以基督教的「上帝視角」來說明道家思想的舉例。我舉的例子是「瘸子」。

「若是我自己,我會這樣說,但你,我不會。因為你跟我不同,你還沒有被超越世人的神的愛所觸摸,我若這樣講,是對你殘酷。」我回答她。

我繼續說:「你覺得我45歲時生下一個自閉兒,跟你相較,誰比較辛苦、可憐?你扛的是『自己』的苦難,而我卻是扛著『別人』的生命負重前行......」

「老師比較辛苦。」學生說。

「那我們來比較一下:既然我比你辛苦,可是你看看,你跟我的生命品質差別有多大?我可以快樂喜悅地生養照顧自閉兒,而你卻糾結在自己的生命問題中無法脫困。」我進一步說。
「不是我比你強,而是我有信仰,我領受了上帝超越世人的愛,上帝供應了我的需求、加強了我的能力,但這是你目前所缺乏的。所以我的生命品質比你要高。」

學生靜默了一陣子,突然從脖子上取下紫色絲繩,上頭繫著一個白色東西放在桌上:「老師,請你幫我保管。」

「這是什麼?」我伸手過去拿。乍看之下,好像是隨身碟。

那是一支短版的白色美工刀。

Note: This is a true story that happened this afternoon. May God open her heart to receive the love of the Lord Jesus and heal her inner wounds.
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“Teacher… would you tell me that I’m ‘the most perfectly made mental patient created by God’?”
The student asked me with a bitter, faint smile.

This came from an example I had used a few hours earlier in class, explaining Taoist thought through a Christian “God’s-eye perspective.” The example I used was “a lame man.”

“If it were about myself, I might say something like that.
But you—I would never say that to you,” I answered.
“Because you’re not the same as me. You haven’t yet experienced the love of God that surpasses all human understanding. If I said that to you, it would be cruel.”

I continued:
“Tell me—when I gave birth to a child with autism at age 45, and compare that with your suffering… who has it harder?
You carry the burden of your own suffering,
but I carry the weight of another person’s entire life.”

“Teacher, you have it harder,” she said.

“Then let’s compare this,” I went on.
“Since my burden is heavier than yours, look at the difference between our quality of life:
I can joyfully and peacefully raise and care for a child with autism,
while you are trapped in your own struggles, unable to break free.
“It’s not that I am stronger than you, but that I have faith. I have received God’s love, which surpasses all human love. God provides for my needs and strengthens my abilities—things that you currently lack. That is why the quality of my life is higher than yours.”

The student was silent for a while.
Suddenly, she took off a purple silk cord from around her neck and placed something tied to it onto the desk.

“Teacher… please keep this for me.”

“What is it?” I reached out to take it.
At first glance, it looked like a USB drive.

It was a small, short white utility knife.

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