2009年7月10日 星期五

What is love?

+ 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 +

Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.
(New International Version)

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。
愛是永不止息。

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.
Love never fails.
(New King James Version)



一直知道,「愛是恆久忍耐」;「love is patient」。然後有一次,聽到是,比較接近原文的譯釋是,「love suffers long」。嗯,要恆久忍耐就是要 suffers long 吧。

從來都知道,愛,不是件容易的事情。我想,我是自私的吧。好怕去愛;怕自己做得不夠好。怕要受苦,就想逃跑掉。但,如果決定要去愛了,那就要盡全力,持守到底,對吧?

這段聖經,熟到可以背出來。但我又真正領悟到多少呢? 今日想起,然後好想自己再細心地一字一字牢記著。

要懂得去愛,才不至於失去所愛的吧。