To be Held被抱住
Posted in 隨沙感受 | October 1, 2009一位母親在誕下兒子的一個月後因為難產死去，遺下一個腦部有問題的小孩以及他的爸爸。現在十五個月大的小男孩，右耳完全是聾的，常要爸爸獨力帶進出醫院作治療。
在一位小女孩出生前十多天，爸爸因意外斷了雙腿，昏迷了兩個月﹔女兒在一歲多時癲癇性發作，以致智障，及失去了吞吃東西的能力。之後女孩亦多次癲癇性發作，而現在五歲的她，認知能力及體能功能也只維持於一歲擁有的程度。
然後你問，
單親的爸爸如何要兼顧醫院經費又要照顧小兒子﹖
爸爸又怎能面對失去雙腿，而面對女兒所經歷的痛苦﹖
This is what it means to be held
How it feels, when the sacred is torn from your life
And you survive
This is what it is to be loved and to know
That the promise was when everything fell
We’d be held
~ “Held” by Natalie Grant
《Held》 這首詩歌，好像讓我明白到一點點。這首歌提醒我們，在世上我們根本不能奢望有任何拯救。有許多事我們無法知道原因﹔有許多事情我們根本沒有把握﹔有許多事更無法預知未來。當你發現正往谷底裏沉，不要緊。因為，要當你去到谷底的時候，才會明白事實的真相。
真相就是，如申命記 33:27說﹕ 「永生的神是你的居所；他永久的膀臂在你以下。」
Listening: Held by Natalie Grant — such a beautiful song
Held by Natalie Grant
Two months is too little
They let him go
They had no sudden healing
To think that providence
Would take a child from his mother
While she prays, is appalling
Who told us we’d be rescued
What has changed and
Why should we be saved from nightmares
We’re asking why this happens to us
Who have died to live, it’s unfair
[Chorus]
This is what it means to be held
How it feels, when the sacred is torn from your life
And you survive
This is what it is to be loved and to know
That the promise was when everything fell
We’d be held
This hand is bitterness
We want to taste it and
Let the hatred numb our sorrows
The wise hand opens slowly
To lilies of the valley and tomorrow
[Chorus]
This is what it means to be held
How it feels, when the sacred is torn from your life
And you survive
This is what it is to be loved and to know
That the promise was when everything fell
We’d be held
[Bridge]
If hope is born of suffering
If this is only the beginning
Can we not wait, for one hour
Watching for our savior
[Chorus]
This is what it means to be held
How it feels, when the sacred is torn from your life
And you survive
This is what it is to be loved and to know
That the promise was when everything fell
We’d be held
We’d be held
This is what it is to be loved and to know
That the promise was when everything fell
We’d be held
This is what it means to be held…..
Agree. People will awake and realize the truth in times of suffering. Can’t we awake and realize in times of happiness and affluence? =p
Comment by The Guard — October 3, 2009 @
You entries put tears in my eyes.
Thank you.
Comment by yelei — October 6, 2009 @
“因為，要當你去到谷底的時候，才會明白事實的真相。” yes!! so true!! our vision gets so much better when we suffer or when are at low times. but too bad a lot of times we don’t realize this, so we feel hopeless and discouraged at those times.
reminds me of a perhaps-related quote: “Our sorrow sets us free.”
another perhaps-similar quote: “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe
Comment by friend — October 8, 2009 @