Esther Lee

“何其特別的經歷一一禱告和默觀可以打開眼界,看見大 自然的實相;而大自然的實相,令人更能注意上帝的引領。我曾經以為默觀最好在隱修院或內室的寂靜中進行,如今我知道了,大自然也可以是我們默觀的同伴-你不再嘗試限 制或操控你的生命或你的小小世界,相反,你變得對上帝的臨在益加敏銳;你不再漠視或轄制大自然,企圖征服它、擁有它,相反,你會輕撫它;你不再檢視它,而是愛慕它。因此,大自然向你啟示它自己,是經過更新改變的一一大自然 不再是禱告的攔阻,而是明辨的利器;不再是刀槍不入的盾牌,而是揭開的幔子,讓你窺看不可知的領域 讓大自然説話可以開啟辨明上帝同在的新境界,這境界是人不大察覺的。樹和星說了甚麼?有時候,我們實在需要花時間在森林中走走,不論走過的是璀璨新生的明亮,還是濃淡灰影的質樸;然後,求上帝向我們啟示祂的作為、旨意、性情" .”
― 盧雲, Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life

“My purpose, my whole life, had been to love him and be with him, to make him happy. I didn’t want to cause any unhappiness now—in that way, I decided it was probably better than he wasn’t here to see this, though I missed him so much at that moment the ache of it was as bad as the strange pains in my belly.”
― W. Bruce Cameron, A Dog's Purpose

“God will invade. But I wonder whether people who ask God to interfere openly and directly in our world quite realise what it will be like when He does. When that happens, it is the end of the world. When the author walks on to the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right: but what is the good of saying you are on His side then, when you see the whole natural universe melting away like a dream and something else - something it never entered your head to conceive - comes crashing in; something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? For this time it will God without disguise; something so overwhelming that it will strike either irresistible love or irresistible horror into every creature. It will be too late then to choose your side. There is no use saying you choose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up. That will not be the time for choosing; it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realised it before or not. Now, today, this moment, is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last for ever. We must take it or leave it.”
― C.S. Lewis

“他接著又說:「我走進一個園子,藉著默想一朵花,就 能擁抱當下。一朵花愈是嬌艷、活潑,它生命也愈是脆弱 難懂。美本質上是脆弱的-你不解溫柔地碰,它就消失; 你握得太緊,花瓣會掉落,你必須輕輕捧著它,專心凝望, 不然它就溜了。如果你想在田野中體味花的美,就不能分析 它,解剖它,企圖了解它的成分或本源。我們的生命也 樣,是具體的,卻也是難懂的。誰可以透徹剖析我們的生 命,闡述其多采多姿?但我們可以體驗、感受,就在當下,而 不要解剖生命,像解剖花朵,將花瓣拿掉。」”
― 盧雲