九月的高跟鞋

THE INTERVIEW WITH GOD ~採訪上帝 ~

I dreamed I had an interview with God.

我夢見自己在採訪上帝

“So you would like to interview me?” God asked.

 你要採訪我嗎？上帝問

“If you have the time” I said.

如果你有時間的話。我說

God smiled. “My time is eternity.

What questions do you have in mind for me?

上帝露出微笑，我有永恒的時間，你想問我什甚麼問題？

“What surprises you most about humankind?”

人類有那些事最令你驚訝？

God answered...

上帝回答：

“That they get bored with childhood,they rush to grow up, and then long to be children again.”

他們覺得童年很無聊，急著長大，然後又想回到童年

“That they lose their health to make money...

and then lose their money to restore their health.”

他們為賺錢失去健康，卻又花錢找回健康。

“That by thinking anxiously about the future,

they forget the present,

such that they live in neither the present nor the future.”

他們担心未來，又忘了現在。

因此他們既不活在現在，也不是活在未來。

"That they live as if they will never die,

 and die as though they had never lived.”

他們活得好像永遠不會死，却死得好像未曾活過一樣。

God’s hand took mine and we were silent for a while.

上帝握着我的手，我們静坐片刻。

And then I asked...

“As a parent, what are some of life’s lessons

 you want your children to learn?”

然後我問，為人父的你，希望子女明白那些人生的功課？

God replied,

上帝回答

“To learn they cannot make anyone love them.

All they can do is let themselves be loved.”

明白不可能强迫人們來愛他們，只能讓自己被愛。

“To learn that it is not good

to compare themselves to others.”

 明白跟别人比較是不好的。

“To learn to forgive by practicing forgiveness.”

明白寬恕是需要練習才能學會。

 “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.”

明白揭開心愛的人的創傷只要幾秒，

却要花很多年才能痊癒

 “To learn that a rich person is not one who has the most, but is one who needs the least.”

明白富人不是擁有最多的人，而是需求最少的人。

“To learn that there are people who love them dearly,

 but simply have not yet learned

 how to express or show their feelings.”

明白有些人很愛他們，只是不知道如何表達。

“To learn that two people can look at the same thing

 and see it differently.”

明白两個人看同一件事，會有不同的看法。

“To learn that it is not enough

 that they forgive one another,

 but they must also forgive themselves.”

明白得到別人寬恕還不够，自己也必須寬恕自己。

"Thank you for your time," I said humbly.

謝謝你撥空見我，我謙卑地說

"Is there anything else

 you would like your children to know?"

還有甚麼是你的子女需要知道的事

God smiled and said,

“Just know that I am here." "Always..”

上帝笑著說，只要他們知道我在這裡，

永遠都在。