Showing posts with label 讀書很爽. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 讀書很爽. Show all posts

Monday, September 7, 2009

突如其來的禮物 The sudden gift


Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light for my path.
~Psalm 119:105


友人馬突然送我新國際版聖經,實在讓我受寵若驚。我只是在msn上提過,中文版聖經譯得很差,根本不想讀之類的無謂說話,就二話不說送來英語版。

對沒有信仰的我來說,聖經是一部吸引的科幻故事書,雖然只看到創世紀的The table of nations,已覺得不可思議,個個都可以活到九百幾歲喎,挪亞的經歷亦極神奇,我一定會繼續讀下去的。

謝謝你啦小云老師。

Translation for my dear friend Jen.
My friend Miss Ma suddenly present a gift to me, the New international Version Bible. I am flattered!

I slightly mentioned to her via MSN that the Chinese translation of the Bible is really poor. I BS something that I couldn't stand the Chinese translation of it. Having zero desire of reading it.

Few days later, during dinner, she gave me the Bible out of the blue.

To me, someone who are not religious, Bible is an attractive fiction story book.

Despite the fact that I only read till The Table of Nations in Genesis, I already found it amazing. Almost all of the characters mentioned in the story had the life span to 900+ years old!

The adventure of Noah is just like an miracle.

I will keep reading it.

Miss ma, thanks a lot!

Thursday, May 29, 2008

自我身心再發現











作者:謝旺霖 書名:轉山

就如蔣勳的推薦序所說,「我們都有出走的理由了。」一個七年級男生,花六十天從四川邊境騎單車,到西藏拉薩,旅途辛酸得慘不忍賭。不禁問自己,他連這些劣境都克服了,你還有甚麼藉口不出走?

他連人跟車「前輪死死卡在岩縫下,而後輪和雙腿完全懸盪在於斷崖之外。」他活過來了,你還有理由不出走嗎?

一直有流言,說西藏治安不好,人很狡滑,很危險,看罷此書,你會知道,藏人是一個好客、和藹的民族。如果連他們都被稱危險狡滑,漢人根本就是可惡的猛獸。

讀書時,指尖自然地沿著相片的壯麗山河、藏人的面容、特色建築,細意觸碰,感受著那一片聖地的一土一木、一點人情,觸動我心。他路上遇上了三個女朝聖者,從四川慢慢三步一拜地走過來,至少已走了一年多,他們雖不太懂藏語,但也努力溝通,邀著作者一同用膳,送上她們最珍貴的肉食。

人善結果被人欺,一個大政權從天而降,將幾千坐藏人的寺院毀滅,還要大聲喊著無知惡心的口號,到最近的暴亂,冰封三尺,非一日之寒,是迫到不能再受壓,才無可奈可的絕地反抗,你還想要甚麼?怎麼如此的貪得無厭?(這一段明顯與書無關,一時興起)

作者說得好:「這一世無非盡是過程。」與會殺人的藏獒對峙過、沒有入藏許可的情況下入住過解放軍軍營、也意外地住了幾次百姓家、騎單車騎至下體全是血、頂著高山症也要努力騎下去,想不到自己的意志力可以帶你走完如此艱難的路,重新發現自己,以後的路更難,也絕對可以繼續走下去。

歷盡如此種種,到達拉薩,放聲大哭,釋懷了。

謝先生,你是我偶像。