2020 08 16
作者 Article by: Yvonne Zheng
小孫女十一個月大了。看着她成長是一件有趣的事。和你分享幾個片段吧。
片段一：小孫女一手拿着一件物件不放、另一隻手卻在做其他的事。例如玩玩具或者拿着食物往口裏送。
片段二：小孫女其中一個覺得好玩的遊戲，是把手裏拿着的物品放到別人手上，然後立即收回。
片段三：小女兒和孫女玩，伸着手説：「俾俾」。
片段四：小孫女把手裏那沾滿口水的半片米餅送到我的嘴邊。
放不下、考慮放下、學習放下和自動放下好像是人生一個學不完的功課。小時候要學習放下的多是實物，例如玩具，食物或者是父母的手。長大了放不下的可能是金錢，人事，權力或工作成就。放不下的事物由小時的本能需要變了成年人的生活負累。越是年長，越多煩惱的事情。不是憂心退休後的生計，就是關顧兒女的生活。近半年還有新冠疫情．未來幾個月，城市重啓後會否有第二波或第三波疫情的來臨。是時候再一次學習放下了。讓我們放下生活上的各種憂慮和執着，把生活的担子交托給上帝。
在這和大家分享一首聖詩, 學習放下。彼此共勉!
我知誰掌管前途
我知誰掌管前途，我知祂握著我手；
在神萬事非偶然，都是祂計劃萬有。
故我面臨的遭遇，不論大小的難處，
我信靠行奇事的神，一切交託主。
My grand-daughter, Hazel is 11 months old now. It is amazing how fast she learns. Let me share a few episodes with you.
1. She often holds onto an object with one hand and performs a task with her other hand at the same time. For example, she plays with a toy while putting a rice cracker into her mouth.
2. A game she plays is that she will pretend to give you something and then take it back right away.
3. When my other daughter asks Hazel to “give”, she will give whatever is in her hand.
4. She shares her half-eaten rice cracker by extending her little arm and putting the saliva-soaked cracker right next to your mouth.
Refusing to let go, thinking about letting go, learning to let go and actually letting go is like an ongoing learning cycle for everyone. When we are little, we mostly hold onto things that are concrete. For example, toys, food or our parents’ hands. When we are grownups, we may hold onto money, relationships, power or accomplishments. Growing old brings growing worries. It might be about how to support our retirement lives or how to support our children. Recently, many of us are very worried about COVID 19. Let us give up all the things that we cannot ‘let go’ or things that we worry about to our Father in Heaven.
The Gospel hymn we sang during the Aug 2 Sunday Service inspires us to do so.
I Know Who Holds the Future
I know who holds the future,
And I know he holds my hand;
With God things don't just happen
everything by Him is planned.
So as I face tomorrow
with its problems large and small,
I'll trust the God of miracles,
Give to Him my all!