Prose 生活隨筆: 2021 Go Home (Taiwan) 3

(This post was published on my old blog on August 8, 2021.)

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.

(這篇貼文在 2021 年 8 月 8 日發表於我的舊部落格。)

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。

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。