沙灘上撿石頭

曾經和一位好友談到尋找終生伴侶的過程，
她把過程比喻為「沙灘上撿石頭」，
看了好幾個，也試著翻動了幾個，
但是就是還沒找到一個可以安心帶回家的。

她笑說，我是一開始就找到一個超大的，
然後死抱著不放，
也不願意看其他的一眼，

我說：「可是走回家的路途好漫長阿，
我的手抱的有點酸耶。」

她說：「可是妳不是抱的很開心嗎？」
我說：「呵.....。」

今天在教會，有位姊妹在婦女會時間分享了一個故事，挺有意思，
成為大家熱烈討論的話題：

A student asked a teacher, “What is love?”

The teacher said, “in order to answer your question, go to the pumpkin field and choose the biggest pumpkin and come back. But the rule is: you can go through them only once and cannot turn back to pick.”

The student went to the field, went thru first row, he saw one big pumpkin, but he wondered.... maybe there is a bigger one later. Then he saw another bigger one... but maybe there is a even bigger one waiting for him.

Later, when he finished more than half of the pumpkin field, he started to realize that the pumpkin was not as big as the previous one he saw, he knew he had missed the biggest one, and he regretted!!!! So, he ended up went back to the teacher with empty hand.

The teacher told him, “...this is love... you keep looking for a better one, but when later you realize, you have already missed the person....”

“What is marriage then?” the student asked.

The teacher said, “in order to answer your question, go to the corn field and choose the biggest corn and come back. But the rule is: you can go through them only once and cannot turn back to pick.”

The student went to the corn field, this time he was careful not to repeat the previous mistake, when he reached the middle of the field, he had picked one medium corn that he felt satisfied, and came back to the teacher.

The teacher told him, “This time you bring back a corn... you look for one that is just nice, and you have faith and believe this is the best one you get.... This is marriage.”

不論你在找的是石頭、南瓜、還是玉米，不要花太多時間喔！

信心(faith)也是很重要的！

大家加油囉！