聽神談【神如何與我們同在?如何聽見神?】
我永遠與你們同在。如果你有問題——日常生活面對的問題——如我所知你甚至現在就有,並且還會繼續有的問題,你可以呼叫我來回答它們。你不需要這本書的形式。
這並非我向你說話的唯一方式。在你靈魂的真理裡傾聽我。在你心的感受裡傾聽我。在你心智的靜默裡傾聽我。(Listen to Me in the truth of your soul. Listen to Me in the feelings of your heart. Listen to Me in the quiet of your mind.)
隨時隨地可聽見我。不論何時你有問題,只需知道我已經回答了。然後對你的世界睜開雙眼。我的回答可能是在一篇已經刊出的文章裡。在一篇已經寫好、正要發表的佈道文裡。 在正在拍攝中的電影裡。在昨天才寫的歌詞裡。在一個你所愛的人正要說出的話裡。在你正要結交的一個新朋友的心裡。
我的真理是在風的颯颯作響裡、小溪的潺潺裡、雷電的霹靂聲裡,雨水的滴嗒聲裡。
它是泥土的感覺、百合的芬芳、陽光的溫暖、月光的引力。
我的真理──以及你在需要幫助時最有把握的助力──是如夜空般的莊嚴,又如嬰兒咯咯笑聲般地單純、不爭和可靠。
它是如劇烈心跳般地大聲,又如與我一致吸入的氣息般地安靜。
我不會離開你,我無法離開你,因為你是我的創造和我的產品,我的女兒和我的兒子,我的目的和我的……自己。
所以,不論何時何地,當你脫離平安(那是我)時,呼叫我。 我會在那裡。
摘自《與神對話 I》第14章
I am always with you. If you have questions— day-to-day questions—as I know you do even now, and will continue to— know that you can call on Me to answer them. You do not need the form of this book.
This is not the only way I speak to you. Listen to Me in the truth of your soul. Listen to Me in the feelings of your heart. Listen to Me in the quiet of your mind.
Hear Me, everywhere. Whenever you have a question, simply know that I have answered it already. Then open your eyes to your world. My response could be in an article already published. In the sermon already written and about to be delivered. In the movie now being made. In the song just yesterday composed. In the words about to be said by a loved one. In the heart of a new friend about to be made.
My Truth is in the whisper of the wind, the babble of the brook, the crack of the thunder, the tap of the rain.
It is the feel of the earth, the fragrance of the lily, the warmth of the sun, the pull of the moon.
My Truth—and your surest help in time of need—is as awesome as the night sky, and as simply, incontrovertibly, trustful as a baby's gurgle. It is as loud as a pounding heartbeat—and as quiet as a breath taken in unity with Me.
I will not leave you, I cannot leave you, for you are My creation and My product, My daughter and My son, My purpose and My… Self.
Call on Me, therefore, wherever and whenever you are separate from the peace that I am.