攀越一座又一座高山

前幾天看到的好句子先用筆畫起來，積了一些再放上來。隔了幾天再看，有新的收穫。自己打一次也是加強印象。

2/16
God does not give us overcoming life ── He gives us life as we overcome.

2/17
If human beings were not capable of depression, we would have no capacity for happiness and exaltation.

2/18
...Jesus comes and lovingly says to us, in essence, "Sleep on now. That opportunity is lost forever and you can't change that. But get up, and let's go on to the next thing." In other words, let the past sleep, but let it sleep in the sweet embrace of Christ, and let us go on into the invincible future with Him. ...Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.

2/25
The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciple's feet ── that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.

看了《毫不留情的信任》，竟然看到哭。

看了以後，要把前幾天在別人家的留言收回來。單純也是值得感恩的，因為不受世故污染，因為可以簡單為了一些小事而快樂，因為可以單純看見別人的好，因為...不為別的，只為上帝喜歡赤子之心。

也要為我還哭得出來感恩。

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買了一堆書，還沒買全。應該可以看到明年了。

落葉是樹的眼淚
哀悼年華的凋零

嫩芽是隔春樹的發憤圖強
標記著擺脫寒冬的魔掌

而花，錯落的蓓蕾
盈盈綻放在枝椏上
是樹放肆的淺淺笑靨

為什麼最自豪，果子是樹的表情？
啊，你且去問你自豪的母親
要經歷多少艱辛，不可言說
她才有這樣驕傲的心血結晶

去榮總看抽血報告。一切正常，就三酸甘油脂低了些。看完以後，弟弟來載我們。以前買的二手車常常出毛病，不堪其擾，他就換了一台新車，水藍色，很淨朗。我們驅車前往中山北路，幫準弟妹看婚紗。婚紗試穿在二樓，要脫鞋，我就留在一樓上網。逛了幾個平常常去的站，又工作了一下，賺了三百塊。

回程的路上，沉浸在自己的思緒好一陣子以後，才想到抬起頭來看看外面。一棵棵樹往後飛逝，姿態各異，有的枝葉蓊蓊鬱鬱，有的只剩樹梢稀稀疏疏的葉片，猶見生氣，有的則是彎曲的枝枒奮力向天開展，是另一種蒼勁。

託弟妹公司的福，繼上次去王品之後又吃了一頓好料，在健康煮。進了 Tigercity，我飄來飄去的眼光活像是進了大觀園一樣。可惜腸胃不適，食不知味。妹妹先是說要帶扁臉加菲肥肥去隆鼻，然後問：「冷掉了嗎？」弟弟說：「對。」＊＊（腦袋當機）她是家裡的最佳空氣調節機，冷暖皆宜。

收到青蛙王子報告近況的信，正苦惱著要不要告訴他弟弟要結婚的事。弟弟跟弟妹都覺得沒關係，可是媽跟妹都覺得不好，因為這等於跟人家要紅包。好吧，不給喜帖的理由就是「壞就壞在當初我說紅包炸彈一定少不了你一分」。誰叫你結婚沒讓我知道。

國中同學老純幫我接了一個餐廳菜單中翻英的 case，本來不敢接，結果她的三寸不爛之舌說動了我。她要我估價，我估完，正式開始翻，才發現，才發現這個工作很有「挑戰性」，做起來很興奮，不過以需要的心力和我的專業程度來看，I deserve a better price。弟弟妹妹也說，接商業案件本來就不用客氣。可是要反悔也來不及了。

菜單的事有一堆需要麻煩青蛙王子幫我確定一下用語會不會不倫不類。改天送他一本書。

1/9 Are You Exhausted Spiritually?
Have you delivered yourself over to exhaustion because of the way you have been serving God? If so, then renew and rekindle your desires and affections. Examine your reasons for service. Is your source based on your own understanding or is it grounded on the redemption of Jesus Christ? Continually look back to your love and affection and remember where your Source of power lies.

1/10 Is Your Ability To See God Blinded?
If we are children of God, we have a tremendous treasure in nature and will realize that it (your ability to see God) is holy and sacred. We will see God reaching out to us in every wind that blows, every sunrise and sunset, every cloud in the sky, every flower that blooms, and every leaf that fades, if we will only begin to use our blinded thinking to visualize it.
（這段的意思跟昨天的《心靈麵包》很像，改天再貼。）

1/11 Is Your Mind Stayed On God?
If you have never used your mind to place yourself before God, begin to do it now. ...Your mind is the greatest gift God has given you and it ought to be devoted entirely to Him. ...This will be one of the greatest assets of your faith when a time of trial comes, because then your faith and the Spirit of God will work together. When you have thoughts and ideas that are worthy of credit to God, learn to compare and associate them with all that happens in nature ── the rising and the setting of the sun, the shining of the moon and the stars, and the changing of the seasons. You will begin to see that your thoughts are from God as well, and your mind will no longer be at the mercy of your impulsive thinking, but will always be used int service to God.
（看了這一篇，就很認真地把一件事跟大自然的景致聯想在一起，就是把那件事比喻成流動的溪水沖刷著河床上的石頭，激起水花，潺潺而鳴。就像真善美的歌詞說的： To laugh like a brook when it trips and falls over stones on its way.）

1/14 The Discipline Of Hearing
...darkness is the time to listen. Don't talk to other people about it; don't read books to find out the reason for the darkness; just listen and obey.

歡迎舊雨新知在此留下芳蹤哦！

看這本書，常常瞠目結舌，會發現自己本來有而沒察覺的問題。作者不是用強硬的口氣，說「如果你不照我說的去改進，你就會下地獄，神就會不喜歡你」，而是溫柔而堅定地指出一條更高的道路。看到自己的問題被素昧平生的人點了出來，真是驚心動魄，心裡不禁張大了嘴巴，卻叫不出聲音來。記在這裡，以後自己要溫習也方便，只可惜觸碰到一些內心太深層的篇章，不敢貼上來，只把一些有共鳴又覺得可以公諸於世的段落放上來。

2/6 Are Yoy Ready To Be Poured Out As An Offering?
Are you ready to be poured out as an offering? It is an act of your will, not your emotions. Tell God tou are ready to be offered as a sacrifice for Him. Then accept the consequences as they come, without any complaints, in spite of what God may send. God sends you through a crisis in private, where no other person can help you...If you don't deal with God on the level of your will first, the result will be only to arouse sympathy for yourself....you must be willing to be placed on the altar and go through the fire; willing to experience what the altar represents ── burning, purification, and separation for only one purpose ── the elimination of every desire and affection not grounded in or directed toward God...You "bind the sacrifice...to the horns of the altar" and see to it that you don't wallow in self-pity once the fire begins. After you have gone throught the fire, there will be nothing that will be able to trouble or depress you. When another crisis arises, you will realize that things cannot touch you as they used to. What fire lies ahead in your life?...

1/7 Spiritual Dejection
We look for visions from heaven and for earth-shaking events to see God's power. Even the fact that we are dejected is proof that we do this. Yet we never realize that all the time God is at work in our everyday events and in the people around us. If we will only obey, and do the task that He has placed closest to us, we will see Him. One of the most amazing revelations of God comes to us when we learn that it is in the everyday things of life that we realize the magnificent deity of Jesus Christ.

走中橫去花蓮玩了一趟。赫然發現這是我第三次走中橫。最烏龍的是啟程沒多久就在霧社車子拋錨（風扇壞掉），當時是早上九點多，因為塞車，等零件從山下上來已經是三個鐘頭以後的事了，結果卻發現風扇的尺寸大小不合，幾經考量的結果是決定請他們再送一次。等車子修好可以上路時，已經是下午四點了。弟弟說，要往好處想，還好不是在前不著村後不著店鳥不拉屎烏龜不下蛋的地方拋錨，否則可有得瞧了。

一半以上的時間都是在坐車，因為乾耗了大半天，少看了不少美景，不過看到的風景還是令人驚歎不已。


雲的另一端，可有思凡的仙子俯瞰人間，竊竊私語？



一山還有一山高


峰峰相連到天邊


忘了是哪一段的風景，美得令人目瞪口呆。當時大概是海拔兩千五百公尺，黃昏時分。往右邊看，一望無際的雲海。視線的左邊的遠處是一道窄窄的紫色的山巒，再近一點是右邊的雲海延伸過來的一片雲，再近一點是一道碧綠山巒，最下面又是雲，跟右邊的雲海連接在一起。「雲」平面上則是由深到淺的橘光。


這是陰陽海，不是海與海的交界，卻有涇渭分明的兩種顏色。

All these photos, which were shot with cell phones, aren't doing the scenery justice.

片名：真情電波（Radio）
導演：Michael Tollin
主演：Cuba Gooding Jr., Ed Harris, S. Epatha Merkerson Riley
年份：2003

　　球場上，一群橄欖球員正在進行魔鬼訓練。儘管流汗疲累，一切努力仍是值得的，因為他們要在最後決賽中勝出。一個年紀與他們相仿的男孩，天天推著車子從場邊經過，目光飄向球場，偶爾也會駐足專心看個夠。或許他心裡也嚮往成為他們其中一員吧，但是從他的臉上看不出什麼端倪。他只是一逕地傻笑，眼神呆滯。醫生也說不出他得了什麼病，我們只知道他心智遲緩（mentally retarded）。

　　細心的教練注意到他了，有一次遞給他一瓶水。剛開始他本能地抗拒，經過教練輕聲細語安撫他，他終於接受了。後來，教練又邀他進休息室與他們一起吃漢堡。向來不說話的他，看到收音機格外興奮，主動調整頻道，嘴裡唸著：「Radio」。接著教練問他要什麼飲料，他有了主見：「可樂。」因為他說不出自己的名字，大家從此就稱呼他 Radio。
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