Prose 生活隨筆: 2021 Go Home (Taiwan) 3

(This post was published on my old blog on August 8, 2021.)
(這篇貼文在 2021 年 8 月 8 日發表於我的舊部落格。)

When you are locked in a small room and you can’t go anywhere, your mood is really affected after a few days. Moreover, several days of the heavy rain impacted by the typhoon passing by did not help either. But unexpectedly, I received a large package dropped at the hotel counter by my university classmate who I knew for over 40 years. In the package I found delicious snacks, fruits, drinks, masks, alcohol spray and a bunch of notes stuck on the fruits to show me how to handle the fruits. A few days later I received another package which had different kinds of fruits in it. I can sense the love from these packages and I also felt cared for. The packages not only lift my spirits up and also provide an alternative food supply while I am tired of hotel food. I am so appreciative of my friend’s love and care without asking for a return. I am also grateful that God led me to find this far away hotel and allow me to experience His grace in small things.

It is Father’s Day (August 8th) in Taiwan today. I also miss my father’s never-ending love for us.
今天是臺灣的父親節，我也很懷念爸爸對我們永不止息的愛。

1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Love suffers long and is kind;
love does not envy;
love does not parade itself,
is not puffed up;
does not behave rudely,
does not seek its own,
is not provoked,
thinks no evil;
does not rejoice in iniquity,
but rejoices in the truth;
bears all things,
believes all things,
hopes all things,
endures all things.

歌林多前書 13:4-7
愛是恆久忍耐，
又有恩慈；
愛是不嫉妒；
愛是不自誇，
不張狂，
不做害羞的事，
不求自己的益處，
不輕易發怒，
不計算人的惡，
不喜歡不義，
只喜歡真理；
凡事包容，
凡事相信，
凡事盼望，
凡事忍耐。

當你被關在一個小房間，哪裏都無法去，幾天下來，心境真的很受影響。而且又碰上颱風影響的天氣，豪雨數天，對沉悶的心情沒什麼幫助。但是出乎意料之外，突然收到認識 40 多年的大學同學送到旅館櫃台的一大包禮物，有好吃的點心，水果，飲料，口罩，噴手酒精，更細心的寫了好多小紙條，教我如何處理水果。過了幾天，又送來一大包不同的水果。這兩個愛心滿滿的包裹，不僅讓我感到被關愛，也讓我在吃厭的便當菜的這段時日有好多補給。我感謝朋友不求回饋報酬的細心及愛心。也感恩神讓我會在這遙遠的城市找到住的地方，在許多小地方經歷神的恩典。