第二,助人。Anne Frank (A Jewish victim of the Holocaust)说:我不愿像大多数人一样徒然生活。我要做一个有用的人,或者为许多人,甚至我从未见面的人带来喜乐。即使离开了这个世界,我也要继续活着! 所以我感谢上帝赐给我写作的恩赐,借着它,可以造就自我,表述我的内心。I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death! And that’s why I’m so grateful to God for having given me this gift, which I can use to develop myself and to express all that’s inside me!
据说,Watts画这幅画的时候非常悲痛,因为他的养女刚刚去世。英国作家Gilbert Keith Chesterton(1874──1936)认为,任何人看到这幅画后的第一映像应该是Despair。但是,Watts命名它为Hope,显然暗示了不同的意义,就是乐观主义。事实上,它的名字应该是Hope in Despair。就是说,即使处在一个困境,周围的一切都令人失望的时候,仍然可以找到一点希望。那点希望可以让人重新开始,继续向前走。
注1:I do not know you, nor have I ever seen the face of him who gave me my ‘Hope’, but I thank God for the chance of that day when it came to me in my
sore need.
注2:六日战争(Six-Day War, June 5-10, 1967) was fought between Israel against the neighboring states of Egypt (known at the time as the United Arab Republic), Jordan and Syria.
第四周第一堂课课前活动
Hospital Window
《一片叶子落下来》或《一片叶子掉下来》
The Fall of Freddie the Leaf:A Story of Life for All Ages by Leo Buscaglia 任溶溶 译