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唉！很痛苦，我瞭。但這篇非要用中文打，而且要超白話，因為你一定要看得明白!
兩個重點：
一、今天翻聖經，讀到羅馬書，我竟然哭了！
怎麼會這樣呢？
從保羅的敘述中，道盡了人的無力與軟弱，這中間，我看見了我自己：
我這麼差勁，臣服於罪惡；這麼倔強，拒絕祂的勸，祂依然愛我。我好慚愧，也好慶幸。
天父真得好愛我們，白白地將永遠的生命，當作禮物，送給任何願意接受的人；
任何人，不必做甚麼偉大事業，不必考試高分，只要你願意！只要你接受祂！
不因你過去的行為而稱有罪，因耶穌的降世，代罪犧牲而一筆勾銷，這是 神的公義。
為了我們能與祂同在，一再地等待與希望，期盼那迷途浪子的歸來，這是 神的氣度。
我感受到祂的慈祥與寬容，祂的忍耐與退讓，幾乎不掉淚的我，於是，便再也無法控制自己了。
父啊！謝謝祢！
二、今天翻聖經，讀到羅馬書，我竟然哭了！
怎麼會這樣呢？
以前看中文，別說哭了，就連半途不睡著都有點難，
尤其是羅馬書，其中充滿辯證和舊約義理的解釋，實在是居家常備、舟車旅行必備的失眠強效良藥。
現在有了聖經【信息本】後，才知讀聖經原來這麼有趣，清楚且明確， 神的道光芒萬丈！
保羅的博學與文筆，是多麼地令人激賞；他的委身與謙卑，是多麼地由衷感動。
可惜的是，【信息本】是英文寫成，須具備一定英文程度方能流暢閱讀，這對大部分台灣學生而言，的確是一大挑戰。
唉！很麻煩，我瞭。但這本書非要翻成中文，而且要超易懂，因為你一定要看得明白!
況且，要你們所有人認真讀好英文至可以流暢閱讀，還是乾脆翻成中文，哪一個快呢？
我越來越感覺到接下來我該幹甚麼了。
父啊！謝謝祢！
If you're a hard worker and do a good job, you deserve your pay; 
we don't call your wages a gift. 
But if you see that the job is too big for you, 
that it's something only God can do, and you trust him to do it—
you could never do it for yourself no matter how hard and long you worked—
well, that trusting-him-to-do-it is what gets you set right with God, by God. 
Sheer gift.                                          Romans 4:4-5, The Message

Three, two, one, go! Going to the sheer enjoyment of true freedom! 
I am about to set off, toward another uncertain direction of life from now on, from a place where I've stayed for over 16 years since 1993, from those whom I've got acquainted with while I was still swaggering around with my "million-dollar" pin on the tuxedo, most importantly, from where I've realized what true friendship and life might be. Well, here I am at the very spot before the end of June though, my heart and devotion have been somewhere else...

You can see the darkest, the most disappointed, as well as the most discouraged facts here in chapter 26 of Matthew, the Message, where Lord has revealed how distrustful and unreliable, or, let me put it this way, weak and feeble humans would be. I am so frustrated to admit that for I'm also one of beings. 
In verses 34 and 35, you will definately think to yourselves: "Is that the same old story recurring over and over again between couples, friends, families, and right among us?" Indeed, the Book has since long displayed the weakness and the disability of humans in the light of "promises". Something we have to be quite aware of is that: The Book was not written to condemn humans, rather to make humans well recognized about what we really are, and offer us the way, the only way through Jesus to receivethe remission due to our weakness and sins.
31-32Then Jesus told them, "Before the night's over, you're going to fall to pieces 
because of what happens to me. There is a Scripture that says, 
I'll strike the shepherd; 
helter-skelter the sheep will be scattered.
But after I am raised up, I, your Shepherd, will go ahead of you, leading the way to Galilee." 

1.
The Fog
by Carl Sandburg

The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbour and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
霧
Carl Sandburg

踮著小貓的腳，
霧來了。
它一弓腰，
坐了下來，
瞧著港口和市區，
又走開了。
2.
水稻之歌
羅青哲
早晨一醒，就察覺滿臉盡是露水，
顆顆晶瑩透明，粒粒清涼爽身。
回頭看看住在隔壁的大白菜，
肥肥胖胖，相偎相依，
一家子好夢正甜。
而遠處的溪水，
卻是一群剛出門的小牧童，
推擠跳鬧，趕著小魚穿過一座
矮矮短短的獨木橋。
於是，我們也興高采烈地前後看齊，
把腳尖併攏，手臂舉高。
迎著和風，成體操隊形
散-----開
一散，
就是千里！
小詩可愛，意境卻是如此雋永深長！
文學，靈魂的迴響；詩歌，焠煉的文學。
耶和華是我的力量，是我的盾牌；我心裡倚靠他就得幫助。
所以我心中歡樂，我必用詩歌頌讚他。
【詩篇 28：7】

Brothers, Sisters, and dear "Gentilemen",
there's something wrong with my pal list. 
I mispressed some tits and suddenly all the data was gone! 
Yeah, I've lost almost all my pals! > <"
Thanks to our borther Paul, 
he saved part of the list and posted the rest on his 
Wretch for my sake. So next time if I'm lucky enough to be chosen as one of
your pals again. Please log onto his website: 
http://www.wretch.cc/friend/richbond128
Sorry for not being able to rescue some other missing names. 
Please trace back and re-add your names onto 
Paul's list, our faithful principal. 
Thank you.
"Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: 
and cause me to understand wherein I have erred." 
                                                               Job 6:24

Why was "The Message" written? The best answer to that question comes from Eugene Peterson himself: "While I was teaching a class on Galatians, I began to realize that the adults in my class weren't feeling the vitality and directness that I sensed as I read and studied the New Testament in its original Greek. Writing straight from the original text, I began to attempt to bring into English the rhythms and idioms of the original language. I knew that the early readers of the New Testament were captured and engaged by these writings and I wanted my congregation to be impacted in the same way. I hoped to bring the New Testament to life for two different types of people: those who hadn't read the Bible because it seemed too distant and irrelevant and those who had read the Bible so much that it had become 'old hat.'"
Peterson's parishioners simply weren't connecting with the real meaning of the words and the relevance of the New Testament for their own lives. So he began to bring into English the rhythms and idioms of the original ancient Greek—writing straight out of the Greek text without looking at other English translations. As he shared his version of Galatians with them, they quit stirring their coffee and started catching Paul's passion and excitement as he wrote to a group of Christians whom he was guiding in the ways of Jesus Christ. For more than two years, Peterson devoted all his efforts to "The Message New Testament". His primary goal was to capture the tone of the text and the original conversational feel of the Greek, in contemporary English.
Language changes. New words are formed. Old words take on new meaning. There is a need in every generation to keep the language of the gospel message current, fresh, and understandable—the way it was for its very first readers. That is what "The Message" seeks to accomplish for contemporary readers. It is a version for our time—designed to be read by contemporary people in the same way as the original Greek and Hebrew manuscripts were savored by people thousands of years ago.
That's why NavPress felt the time was right for a new version. When we hear something over and over again in the same way, we can become so familiar with it that the text loses its impact. The Message strives to help readers hear the living Word of God—the Bible—in a way that engages and intrigues us right where we are.
Some people like to read the Bible in Elizabethan English. Others want to read a version that gives a close word-for-word correspondence between the original languages and English. Eugene Peterson recognized that the original sentence structure is very different from that of contemporary English. He decided to strive for the spirit of the original manuscripts—to express the rhythm of the voices, the flavor of the idiomatic expressions, the subtle connotations of meaning that are often lost in English translations.
The goal of "The Message" is to engage people in the reading process and help them understand what they read. This is not a study Bible, but rather "a reading Bible." The verse numbers, which are not in the original documents, have been left out of the print version to facilitate easy and enjoyable reading. The original books of the Bible were not written in formal language. "The Message" tries to recapture the Word in the words we use today. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaaIui7cESs
Adopted from www.biblegateway.com

One day after a ceremonious return to golf, Tiger Woods was on his way home.
Tim Clark of South Africa played 16 holes without a bogey and pulled ahead for good on the back nine to knock Woods out of the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship with a 4-and-2 victory on Thursday.