On Children

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聽著大家紛紛皺著眉頭和夥伴們分享著家裡頭那本難唸的父母經

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畢竟類似的問題自己已經面臨無數次了 上禮拜也才和爸媽齟齬了一回

忽然想起最近讀到紀伯倫的一首詩：

On Children / by Kahlil Gibran

And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, "Speak to us of Children."

And he said:

Your children are not your children.

They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you,

And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts.

For they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their souls,

For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.

For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.

Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;

For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.

一個懷抱嬰孩的婦人說：『跟我們談關於孩子的事吧！』

他說：

『你的孩子並不是你的。
　他們是生命對它自身的渴慕所生的子女。
　他們經你而生，卻不是你所造生。
　雖然他們與你同在，卻不屬於你。

　你可以施予他們你的愛，卻非你的想法，因為他們有自己的思想。
　你能供給他們的身軀安居之所，卻不可藏置他們靈魂，
　因為他們的靈魂居住在明日之屋，甚至在你的夢中你亦無法探訪。
　你可以努力以求像似他們，但別想要使他們像你。
　因為生命既不回溯，也不會滯戀昨日。

　你是一具弓，你的孩子好似有生命的箭，借你的力而被送向前方。
　射手望見無垠路上的標記，而用他的大力來拉彎你，使他的箭射得既快又
遠。
　讓你由於歡喜樂意，而彎在那射手掌中；
　因為，正如祂愛那飛馳的箭，他也愛那穩當的弓。』

沒時間寫自己的感觸 但希望能與夥伴們共勉之
大家加油！

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