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如果你是一朵花，想要成為哪一種花呢？是嬌豔的玫瑰、清香的桂花、熱情的木棉、高雅的薰衣草，還是有「花中君子」美稱的荷花？
If you were a flower, which kind
would you be? A tender rose, a fragrant osmanthus, a warm kapok, an
elegant lavender, or a chivalrous lotus?
如果我是一朵花，我渴望成為一朵向日葵，那是一種來自「光」的魅力！無論晴天雨天、白日黑夜，無論周遭的環境如何，向日葵總是向著太陽轉動。向日葵的天空，是一片「與光共舞」的天空！
If I were a
flower, I’d long to be a sunflower, a kind of magic that comes from “light”! Whether
rain or shine, day or night, and regardless of the surrounding environment, a
sunflower always turns toward the sun. A sunflower sky is a sky that dances
with light!
光的相反是「黑暗」。在某一個無風又無雨的夜晚，我從巴士下車，赫然發現我所住的山坡上竟然大停電，路旁的商店和住家都沒有半點燈光，眼前好黑暗，好不尋常的安靜。當我一個人走在回家的路上，那晚，街道上空無一人，少了路燈和月光的陪伴，我好像走在一個漆黑死寂的城鎮中，原本熟悉的街道，變得好陌生、好漫長，心中也感到好孤單、好害怕……當時的我，好想念「光」，就算只有一根小蠟燭的光都好!
The opposite of
light is ‘darkness’. One night, with no wind or rain, I got off the bus, and
was surprised to find the mountainside where I lived had an unexpected power
outage. Side-street shops and homes were without light, before my eyes was
total darkness, and it was unusually quiet. As I was alone walking home, that
night, there was not a single person on the street, and without the company of streetlights or moonlight, it seemed as though I was walking
through a dark ghost town. What once was a familiar street, became strange, and
endless, and my heart felt lonely, and afraid…At that time, I really missed ‘light’,
where even a little light from a candle would have been just fine!
有一句話說：「與其詛咒黑暗，不如點亮燭光。」在這世界上，在我們生命中，無論那黑暗是多麼的深、多麼的大，都不足以熄滅一支小蠟燭的光亮！然而，什麼是「光」？
聖經說：「神就是光，在他毫無黑暗！」（約翰一書一：5）。一旦讓「光」進來，黑暗就無容身之地！
There is a
proverb that says, “It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.” In
this world, in our lives, however deep or great that darkness may be, it’s
never enough to extinguish the light of a small candle! But what is ‘light’?
The bible says: “God is light; in Him there is
no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5). Once we let in the ‘light’, darkness has
nowhere to hide!
試著在我們的心田種下向日葵的希望種子，讓心中的那一片向日葵花海，向著生命的「真光」而綻放！就像向日葵，堅持選擇迎向陽光，我們也來成為「與光共舞」的光明之子吧！那麼，這個看似黑暗的世界，將會變得大大不同！你相信嗎？
Try planting
sunflower seeds of hope in our hearts, letting the sunflower blossom within,
and watch the ‘true light’ of life bloom! Just
like a sunflower, persistently facing the sun’s rays, we can all join the waltz
in the sky, and dance as children of light! Then, this seemingly dark world
will be remarkably different! Do you think so too?
作者:譚亞菁 Oct.2, 2012
Translated by Parker Gadbois
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