_**RESIGNATION**_ I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult. I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of an 8 year-old again. I want to go to McDonald's and think that it's a four star restaurant. I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make a sidewalk with rocks. I want to think M&Ms are better than money because you can eat them. I want to lie under a big oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summer's day. I want to return to a time when life was simple; When all you knew were colors, multiplication tables, and nursery rhymes, but that didn't bother you, because you didn't know what you didn't know and you didn't care. All you knew was to be happy because you were blissfully unaware of all the things that should make you worried or upset. I want to think the world is fair. That everyone is honest and good. I want to believe that anything is possible. I want to be oblivious to the complexities of life and be overly excited by the little things again. I want to live simple again. I don't want my day to consist of computer crashes,mountains of paperwork, depressing news, how to survive more days in the month than there is money in the bank, doctor bills, gossip, illness, and loss of loved ones. I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth, justice, peace, dreams, the imagination, mankind, and making angels in the snow. So . . . here's my checkbook and my car-keys, my credit card bills and my RRSP statements. I am officially resigning from adulthood. And if you want to discuss this further, you'll have to catch me first, cause........ ......"Tag! You're it." Remember the Simple things in Life. ((((((((((((((HUGS))))))))))))))

January 22, 2006

To be called or not to be called

如果我懷著失落的心情,或是在尋找某些訊息,或是帶著臣伏崇敬的態度,這次旅途上常常出現、有點神召意味的畫面也許會成為一個life-changing的經歷。但其實我只是自覺觀察力蠻不錯,沒有感應或震撼。

在意大利三星期,更覺得這是項縱橫二千年,跨越地域、種族,規模無可比擬的市場推廣。在意大利,根本不可能有一天不會看見不同年代、不同款式、不同媒體展現的聖母聖嬰像,耶穌降生、受難,復活,升天;在博物館、畫廊、大街小巷、火車站、學校、醫院,當然還有各大小教堂中以排山倒海鋪天蓋地的姿態向人重複著同一種意念。

這項人類史上最大型的推廣結合權力、金錢、藝術和二千年歲月的力量,無遠弗介地敍述耶穌的故事,基督教發展至今天的成績,在市場學角度是合理的成果。













處身這些城市、建築物,或是藝術品之間,有些時候我實在非常受感動,但仍免不了用自家方法理性分析。無論如何,我是受益人,能處身這些有歷史氣質的城市、看到藝術文化的精華都是我的福氣,必須感謝那索勒的耶穌先生。

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