至于我和我家人,我们必定事奉上帝。 As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

Saturday, August 6, 2011

难舍难分 A Hard Goodbye


August 5, 2011 — by Bill Crowder
(From: Our daily Bread, http://odb.org/ and http://chinese-odb.org/)

(诗篇556Psalm 55:6
上帝在他的圣所作孤儿的父,作寡的伸冤者 A father of the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in His holy habitation.

读经: 诗篇681-10 Scripture Reading: Psalms 55:1-8

当我的小儿子麦克参,我知道将会面很多挑;我知道他将会面,在肉体上、情感上和灵命上都会受考;我也知道从某些角度来,我的家再也不会完全成他的家。在他要离开之前的几个月,我跟妻子努力好自己,要来面对这些挑
麦克到的那天是到来了。在我之后,他就走向入伍站,但那一刻真是叫我措手不及,分。分离在是我心痛得以承受,起来好像很夸,但那一天的确是我有史以来哭得最凄惨的一天。骨肉的分离,以及随之而来的失落感,我心如刀割。
这样刻,我感恩有一位天父,深深明白与子分离的感受;我感恩有一位上帝,被描述成「孤儿的父,作寡的伸冤者」(篇68篇5) 。我相信如果关切那些寂寞孤的孤儿和寡也必在乎我、安慰我,即便是在那些我得面之苦的刻。 WEC
在与所,

骨肉分离之,

上帝自同在,

我心孤寂。 Sper
若你忘上帝同在,寂寞便会汹涌来

When our youngest son joined the Army, we knew that challenges lay ahead. We knew that he would face danger and be tested physically, emotionally, and spiritually. We also knew that in some ways our home would never fully be his home again. In the months leading up to his departure, my wife and I steeled ourselves for these challenges.

Then the day came when Mark had to report. We hugged and said our goodbyes, and then he walked into the recruiting station, leaving me with a moment for which I was decidedly unprepared. The pain of that hard goodbye felt unbearable. At the risk of sounding overly dramatic, I can’t remember when I have wept as hard as I did that day. The hard goodbye, and the sense of loss it delivered, cut me to the heart.

In such moments, I am thankful to have a heavenly Father who knows what it is to be separated from a beloved Son. I am thankful to have a God who is described as “a father of the fatherless, a defender of widows” (Ps. 68:5). I believe that if He cares for the orphaned and the widows in their loneliness, He will also care for me and comfort me—even in those moments when I face the struggles that accompany hard goodbyes.


When our loved ones say goodbye

And we have to be apart,

God can fill our loneliness

With His presence in our heart. —Sper


Loneliness comes when we forget 
about the One
who is always with us.

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