三天，短暂的三天，仿佛经历生命快程列车 。一切的一切，毫无保留，赤裸裸的展现在我眼前。并非我所要求；若有选择，谁不希望人生这道菜只有单味－那就是甜。
It's been an eventful 3 days. How can I complain when the Libyans and the Malians are struggling to survive in hot waters each day; much less an overwhelmingly incomparable use of the term "eventful". I have been receiving newsletter update from Partners Intl and Samaritan's Purse, having made a couple of donations via the organization previously. 生活在水深火热之中，马利与黎巴嫩国民天天与枪火搏斗，生活之困苦若没亲身体会，又怎能明白? 或许科技发达；或许搓手无策，世间惨案播报的普遍率似乎替人类打了一计特强麻醉药，面对生命的流逝，我产生了一种默然。Lord Jesus, grant me the kind of compassion for Your people, and help me to be like You, that even I may be far, even I may not know them, help me to know how You feel, and help me to yearn for the salvation of many as You have done so.
I dare not make any audacious claim, but I guess it's a different kind of struggle altogether at this part of the world, something which most of what our people can comprehend, something closer to home; something closer to heart- Results, relationship, and the infrequent occurrences of deaths; the passing on of a close one.
生命中有许多moments. We always talk about capturing the special moments: a baby's first cry, the graduation day, the blissful wedding etc. 可是在我们捕抓的当儿，却也错过了许多的理所当然－父母的慈爱，妻子的体贴，孩子的孝顺。这样的时刻，常常都是 beyond words 的。 期盼好久的一个 closure, 四年困惑的解脱， as if to be glued on the lips. It was with so much difficulty and delay to get those words out- not much, but just enough to express what I needed. Now, I just need to form the resolve and cling onto it- to remind myself that this is how it has finally closed. A closed case indeed!
朋友父亲的丧礼，left me thinking about possibilities: would I have all these good words to say when it's finally my turn, how about his salvation.
啊，好漫长的一周，发生了太多太多。疯狂的时间表终于接近尾声。欢喜之余，人生的另一阶段也即将展开。蠢蠢欲动，那种感觉曰"excitement". 四个月前的预言；这的确是一个令人兴奋的一年。放下过去，embrace what is to come.
"God has already healed me; I just need to stop hurting myself."
~Judah, March 2012
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