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「你最近好嗎?」 「哎呀!好忙!快忙死了」 「我也是,每天跟鉈鏍一樣,轉個不停,好像怎麼也停不下來阿!」 好熟悉的對話阿! 10年前,寫過聚焦”全球化”暢銷書《世界是平的》(The World is Flat)的作者佛里曼(Thomas Friedman),在他的最新演說The world is fast說到,他發現有三大趨勢(三個M:市場、大自然、摩爾定律),我們的世界已進入爆炸性的指數成長、變動非常快,將為世界帶來極大動盪,未來世界將失序,平庸的人搶不到舞台。 人類歷史滾輪從農業時代、工業革命到現代科技,越滾越滾快,剛開始為人類帶來省時便利,出門有汽車、洗衣有洗衣機,煮飯不用生火,但為什麼我們的時間卻越來越少,生活越來越忙碌? 或非得讓自己忙碌不可。最近和一朋友聊天,她對我說,“一旦時間空閒下來,什麼都不做或沒做什麼事,覺得好有罪惡感阿!”我半開玩笑地說,”我倒和妳相反,真希望我有一整天安靜空閒的時間,什麼都不做,這可是一件奢侈的享受阿!大概是我比較懶散的緣故吧!“ 昨天聽到一首” 靜謐之處“純淨甜美的詩歌,下面有篇”荒漠甘泉”文章寫到”在靈裡深處,保留一塊讓神安家的靜謐角落“。基督徒其實是非常需要安靜的時刻,僅管外面狂風暴雨、紛紛擾擾,以賽亞書30章15節說到,「你們得救在乎歸回安息;你們得力在乎平靜安穩。」在困境裡,進退不得,只能等待與等候、盼望與仰望,惟回到靈裡深處,那是我們的藏身之處、安息之所,苦而甘的恩典!
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荒漠甘泉:在靈裡深處,保留一塊讓神安家的靜謐角落 「你們要住手,要知道我是神。」─詩篇46:10
在合唱曲中,有哪一個音符能比一個終止的休止符還要更具張力呢? 詩篇中,有那一個字詞,能比一個簡單的細拉(停頓)傳神? 有什麼比得上亂石崩雲前的無聲,或風雨前的寧靜更攝人心魄?有什麼能像安靜中的能力,更能觸及我們內心深處呢? 一顆歇下勞苦重壓的心,必能得著「超越人所能理解的平安」(腓立比書4:7)、一切能力來源的「平靜信靠」(以賽亞書30:15),與世界所無力提供,也無法奪走的甜美安息。 在我們靈裡深處,有一塊讓神安家的靜謐角落;我們若走進其中,斥退所有閒雜聲音,就能聽到神微弱、低聲的細語。 轉動最飛快的車輪,它的軸心卻不動分毫;在最喧囂忙亂的生活中,也同樣有塊安靜的角落,使我們能在永恆的寧靜中,享受神的同在。 認識神的獨一方式,就是:「你們要安靜,要認識。」「惟耶和華在祂的聖殿中:全地都當在祂面前靜默無聲!」(哈巴谷2.20) ──選
Music and the Rest Scripture: "Into a desert place apart" (Matt. 14:13).
"There is no music in a rest, but there is the making of music in it." In our whole life-melody the music is broken off here and there by "rests," and we foolishly think we have come to the end of the tune. God sends a time of forced leisure, sickness, disappointed plans, frustrated efforts, and makes a sudden pause in the choral hymn of our lives; and we lament that our voices must be silent, and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of the Creator. How does the musician read the "rest"? See him beat the time with unvarying count, and catch up the next note true and steady, as if no breaking place had come between. Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the tune, and not be dismayed at the "rests." They are not to be slurred over, not to be omitted, not to destroy the melody, not to change the keynote. If we look up, God Himself will beat the time for us. With the eye on Him, we shall strike the next note full and clear. If we sadly say to ourselves, "There is no music in a 'rest,'" let us not forget "there is the making of music in it." The making of music is often a slow and painful process in this life. How patiently God works to teach us! How long He waits for us to learn the lesson! –Ruskin |
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